SAE WCX 2025

The automotive industry is amidst an unprecedented multi-faceted transition striving for more sustainable passenger mobility and freight transportation. The rise of e-mobility is coming along with energy efficiency improvements, greenhouse gas and non-exhaust emission reductions, driving/propulsion technology innovations, and a hardware-software-ratio shift in vehicle development for road-based electric vehicles. Current R&D activities are focusing on electric motor topologies and designs, sustainability, manufacturing, prototyping, and testing. This is leading to a new generation of electric motors, which is considering recyclability, reduction of (rare earth) resource usage, cost criticality, and a full product life-cycle assessment, to gain broader market penetration. This paper outlines the latest advances of multiple EU-funded research projects under the Horizon Europe framework and showcases their complementarities to address the European priorities as identified in the 2Zero SRIA.

Target of this paper is to introduce a family of European projects (EM-TECH, HEFT, MAXIMA, VOLTCAR and CliMAFlux), all following the target of high efficiency and low-cost electric motors for circularity and low use of rare resources. Especially, this paper will describe the latest advances of the respective projects as well as their complementarity to address the 2Zero strategy.

Read the full paper HERE.

It was a pleasure to participate to the session “Innovative components for more efficient EVs” and present our advancements in the great round of the projects MAXIMA, CliMAFlux – Horizon Europe Project, Voltcar Project and hashtag#HEFT. Thanks a lot to Joao Duarte Miranda and Damian Backes for moderating the session and to all presenters for the excellent discussion.

Special thanks from EM-TECH point of view of course to our coordinator Martin Weinzerl from AVL for representing the EM-TECH consortium at this great conference and to all organizers for the excellent organization.

It was a pleasure!

The University of Bath and IAAPS Ltd team attended the Transport Research Arena 2024 conference in Dublin in April, as part of a broader presentation of Horizon Europe projects managed by Innovate UK with the EM-TECH project and a 3D printed prototype of the e-gear approach.

Footfall was very high during the first two days, with attendees from various sectors, including e-bikes, CNG-powered freight trains, agricultural vehicles, and high-performance passenger cars. Representatives from all four UK nations, Ireland, and Germany were also present. Consequently, many conversations were with people who found the e-gear interesting.

The 3D-printed prototype and the presentation complemented each other well, effectively explaining the technology and its applications. Despite the increasingly virtual world, a physical model that can be handled still attracts significant attention. The LED display and prototype were effective crowd magnets and were impressive features at the Innovate UK stand.

Attendees:

Prof. Vincent Zeng – Lecturer at University of Bath

Mr. Ryan Nicholls – IAAPS Ltd Business development manager

Mr. John Bond – IAAPS Ltd Business development manager

Author: Kristina Burke – IAAPS Ltd Business project manager