With the advent of new electrified vehicles (EV) for application in the urban environment, a significant need exists to drastically improve the convenience and sustainability of car-based mobility. In particular, research should focus on the development of smart infrastructures, and innovative solutions which will permit full EV integration in the urban road systems while facilitating evolution in customer acceptance.

Within this context, activities will focus on:

• Investigation into alternative, innovative solutions for recharging stationary EV minimising risks deriving from vandalism (e.g. inductive charging).
• Study of on-route charging technologies which would increase the vehicle range while reducing the size of on-board energy storage systems.
• Development of innovative location based Demand Management systems by means of intelligent systems integrated in both EV and charging stations that can communicate and manage adaptively the charging process autonomously, if necessary, or taking into account the priorities of the user-grid.
• Development of data security standards and crypto measures to ensure privacy protection.
• Intelligent coordinated systems (micro-grids) that balance the simultaneous demand of a given geographically location (multiple, slow and fast charging EV combined with other electric consumers) with policies that prioritise emergencies, security of the net, minimal autonomy for all the elements, etc., and that can also coordinate with neighbouring microgrids and upper level electric grid control.

Projects may address these issues by technology development and demonstration from a technological perspective while focusing on business case analyses and impact studies demonstrating the feasibility and viability of the proposed solutions across a wide-range of operational situations.