CAPIRE - Coordination Action on PPP Implementation for Road-Transport Electrification
Overview
Background & policy context:
CAPIRE is a Coordination Action within the framework of the European Green Cars Initiative. The CAPIRE project will prepare and support the realisation of a Public Private Partnership (PPP) sustaining and putting into practice the European Green Cars Initiative.
Objectives:
CAPIRE focuses on projects which could foster the competitiveness of the European Automotive Industry in the domain of Transport Electrification as well as in the development of technologies and services to reduce the European CO2 footprint.
The CAPIRE activities will be focused on two major fields: (i) a careful consideration of options for the aims, shape, and implementation paths of a PPP, and (ii)the identification of technology roadblocks and the respective research needs within FP7.
Major outcomes will be an appropriate and proven PPP implementation model and a dedicated roadmap based on an elaborated and deep analysis of R&D needs, respective milestones and supporting measures. The goal is to increase the competitiveness globally of the European Automotive Industry in the domain of energy efficient, safe, non-polluting and CO2-free vehicles.
Methodology:
To be broad enough, the strategy has to be based on the three following technology pillars:
- Passenger cars and LCV: to reduce local pollution, emission of green house gases, and noise by accelerating electrification of vehicles and provision of a dedicated infrastructure for the connection to CO2-free energy sources;
- Trucks and Buses: to improve overall efficiency of transport of people and goods by accelerating the improvement of ICE technologies and their potential partial electrification;
- Logistics: to increase the efficiency of goods transport by optimizing loading rate of trucks and mixing different energy saving transport vectors as rail transport and road transport.
The results of CAPIRE will serve as a guideline for automotive R&D and European road transport policy related to the Green Cars topic. Their deployment will require a strong cooperation between OEMs, automotive technology suppliers, road and traffic operators, energy and service providers, universities, and public authorities to reach the ambitious target related to key technologies in a medium and long term perspective.
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