Project
E3CAR - Nanoelectronics for an Energy Efficient Electrical Car
Funding origin:
European
STRIA Roadmaps:
Transport electrification (ELT)
Vehicle design and manufacturing (VDM)
Transport mode:
Road
Transport sectors:
Passenger transport
Freight transport
Project website:
CORDIS link:
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/120001
Duration:
Start date: 01/01/2009,
End date: 01/01/2012
Status: Finished
Funding details:
Overview
Background & policy context:
Emissions from road vehicles have to be reduced substantially in the future. The ultimate goal of most car manufacturers is to get to a completely electric vehicle, protecting the environment from emissions and noise, with alternative on-board energy sources (solar) and connection to the grid. In this context the project is addressing the development of highly efficient electrical vehicles, the battery control, the high-voltage components (IGBTs, high-voltage FETs) and the architectures and subsystems for the electronics of electrical vehicles.
Objectives:
- Development of nanoelectronics technologies, devices, circuits architectures and modules for electrical cars/vehicles and demonstration of these modules in a final systems.
- New design and concepts for power train, power conversion, power management and battery management.
- Achieve 35% energy saving, and increased integrability against the current state-of-the art EV power electronics systems.
Methodology:
Fields of research:
- Smart power technologies for energy management.
- High power technologies e.g. for electrical and hybrid vehicles based on heterogeneous technologies (Si, SOI, SiC, GaN ).
- Sensor and actuator components and systems based on heterogeneous substrates and functionalities.
- Smart packages and high power modules for heterogeneous integration with extended power dissipation.
- Reliability, quality and test on component and system level under harsh conditions (prediction, EMI, radiation, parasitics).
- Technologies - Si, SOI, SiC, GaN.
Improvements:
- Efficiency -> converter
- Mileage -> batteries and energy system
- Temperature range -> components on hot spots
- Flexibility -> thermal components
- Harsh environment electronics and sensors
- Functionality
Design and concepts - power train, power conversion, power management and battery management. Fail safe and fault tolerant systems.
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