E-VOLVE Cluster News

The summer edition of the E-VOLVE newsletter is now out! 🌞

🔎 Besides our project, also the cluster members HighScape and HiPE used the time to hold their General Assembly Meetings. This edition will give you a closer look at each meeting.

📅 You will also find a summary of the next upcoming events from SELFIE EU projectSCAPE – Powering e-mobility and Transport Research Arena (TRA)

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Project Meeting in Guildford, UK

The EM-TECH project consortium meeting lies behind us and here is our recap:


Hosted by the University of Surrey, the EM-TECH project consortium gathered in Guildford, UK to discuss the activities performed in the first 6 months of the project and planned the next upcoming activities.
On the first day the achievements so far were discussed, many questions were raised and addressed which were then adjourned for the next day as the social event was next on the agenda. These are the best times when all participants come together in an informal setting.
Day two brought us back to the meeting room to discuss the status of Work Packages 5, 6 and 7 and fine-tuning the planning of the coming period.
Not even the fire alarm was able to interrupt the spirit of the meeting! We concluded the meeting with many results presented, learnings, action items, and – above all – a clear way forward and a collaborative project spirit.
Now it is time to process everything that had been discussed and agreed on. We are all looking forward to be sharing a lot of great results soon.


Thank you all for these days, thanks to all participants putting all their energy and passion in and thanks to University of Surrey for having us!

Sustainable Development and EM-TECH

We believe that sustainable development is the key to building a better future for ourselves and future generations. Today we are sharing with you the SDGs, the EM-TECH activities are contributing to:

• SDG12 Responsible Consumption and Production
• SDG9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
• SDG11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
• SDG8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
• SDG13 Climate Action

Especially Objective 4 is directed towards the circularity solutions for in-wheel and on-board motor technologies by:
• Incorporation of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodologies in the motor design optimization
• Implementation of Life Cycle Cost (LCC) assessment methodologies over the supply chain to obtain the unit cost in €/kW for the EM-TECH motor and drive solutions
• Improvements and updates of the LCA / LCC methodologies taking into account re-manufacturing and recycling of the components and critical raw materials
• Significant reduction of the use of rare earth resources in the EM-TECH machines and adoption of recycled PMs as a viable circularity solution