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Horizon 2020 is the financial instrument implementing the Innovation Union, a Europe 2020 flagship initiative aimed at securing Europe's global competitiveness. Running from 2014 to 2020 with an € 80 billion budget, the EU's new programme for re ...
EuropeanMOBI.Europe is one component of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP). The focus is to promote the use of clean energy sources, especially electric vehicles. MOBI.Europe aims to make users more comfortable with the use of electric v ...
EuropeanThe International Transport Forum evolved from the ECMT in 2006/7. At the time, ministers decided to invite new members from non-European countries in order to address transport issues on a global level and for all transport modes, and to create a public ...
EuropeanHELIOS The reluctance of OEM worldwide to extend electric drive applications to the private customers depends partly on considerations with respect to customer acceptance: limited range in the case of electric vehicles, long charging time after battery de ...
EuropeanEVADER Studies suggest that vehicles, driven in electric mode, either hybrid or pure electric vehicles, are considerably quiet and, thus, that they constitute a safety hazard for pedestrians and bicyclists in traffic. It is claimed that such electric vehi ...
EuropeanOSTLER Present-day electric vehicles are typically designed by starting from an existing vehicle platform and designing a storage device (battery pack) to fit the constraints of the existing vehicle. The OSTLER project is based on the concept of modular s ...
EuropeanE-GOMOTION In the process of lowering road transport emissions,vehicle electrification plays a significant role. This role will continue to grow as we shift to an electric road transport paradigm. The successful development of the infrastructure, vehicles ...
EuropeanLivingRAIL Several studies have been commissioned in recent years in Europe regarding the development of a European-wide, competitive, and efficient transportation system. The majority of these studies have led to visions towards a new culture of mobility ...
EuropeanELECTROMOBILITY+ The growing awareness of necessary changes and effective measures that can prevent, or at least, limit climate change has in many countries led to substantially intensified efforts in research and development. The dominant objective is to ...
EuropeanPOLLUX Establishment of a common multi-domain architecture and design platform for advanced multi-core hardware and middleware solutions for electrical vehicles to enable the flexible and evolvable interoperation of systems, including sensors, actuators, ...
EuropeanP-MOB The P-MOB project aimed at breaking the link between the growth in transport capacity and increased fatalities, congestion and pollution. Transport is responsible for 73% of total oil consumption in EU, it is a major source of pollution and greenhou ...
EuropeanOPENER A new European Research Project was launched in May 2011. OpEneR, which stands for "Optimal Energy consumption and Recovery based on a system network," will develop new driving strategies and driver assistance systems that significantly i ...
EuropeanThe automotive industry and its suppliers are of key significance for value creation and employment in Europe and especially in Germany. With a turnover of around 335 billion euros, this sector generates almost 20 % of the manufacturing industry’s total v ...
GermanyeFahrung In the joint project eFahrung business models for shared use of electric vehicles across several corporate car pools will be developed and tested. Hereby the companies allocate shares of electric vehicles for their vehicle fleets in order to impr ...
GermanySWARM Hydrogen powered vehicles are an important factor for a sustainable future of road transport in Europe, but they are not widely available for customers in the market today. The European FCH JU funded project SWARM ("Demonstration of Small 4-Whe ...
EuropeanSCCER Mobility The Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research – Efficient Technologies and Systems for Mobility (SCCER Mobility) aims at developing the knowledge and technologies essential for the transition of the current fossil fuel based transportatio ...
SwitzerlandSIMCAL The use of energy storage systems for the operation of electric and hybrid vehicles still faces several major challenges:- One thing is certain: The complexity of architectures in their implementation and management requires an approach simulation ...
FranceWIC2IT Zero-emission travel, noiseless power trains and driving comfort are big advantages for electric vehicles (EV). One drawback, however, is the limited range that results from the use of smaller batteries to keep the cost down. In the day-to-day usag ...
FranceLADEN 2020 A suitable–that is, corresponding to the demand for e-mobility and the technical characteristics of electric vehicles–demand-oriented charging infrastructure is one of the essential conditions for a successful market ramp-up of electric mobilit ...
GermanyGet eReady Get eReady explores the prerequisites necessary for the commercial operation of vehicle fleets in metropolitan areas. It is undeniable that vehicle fleets- with their high capacity utilisation and limited routes- are well suited for a changeove ...
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