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Highlighting that a network of public charging stations for electric vehicles has been installed across Portugal by Oracle and Portuguese not-for-profit company Inteli. The article notes that the Portuguese project, known as MOBI.E, incorporates Oracle's Customer Care and Billing service, enabling monthly flat rate and time-of-day rating of electricity consumption, network usage and/or additional charging such as parking, roaming between electric vehicle (EV) operators and energy retailers. The article also includes comments from Bastian Fischer, vice president, Oracle Utilities, EMEA noted that with an estimated 800 million motor vehicles on the road worldwide, e-mobility solutions are crucial to meet the European Union's target to reduce carbon emissions by 20 percent by 2020.