by cidaut | Nov 7, 2014 | Sin categoría
On September 26th, CIDAUT and the FP7 funded EVolution project were involved in the European Researchers Night, This event organized at Valladolid’s Science Museum is part of the dissemination activities coordinated from a European Commission funded project called Scientists for a better word.
This initiative aims at disseminating the European researchers work to a broad audience, in fact to all citizens, to raise awareness of the work done and the impact it has on society and in competitiveness for the local and regional industries. Among other advantages, this event allowed CIDAUT and other organizations involved in research, to directly contact students to promote scientific innovation and development.
CIDAUT and Valladolid’s University presented Evolution (
http://evolutionproject.eu/), a research project funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme. The objective of the project is to develop new materials which will significantly reduce the weight of the new generation of hybrid and electric vehicles. In particular, the work carried out developing light aluminium alloys and aluminium foams, as shown in the following image.
This open house dissemination event targeting the general population was the perfect example of transferring directly to society the effort that the European Commission is taking within their funded programmes. CIDAUT representative, Mr Jorge Martín, explained how Evolution project is promoting sustainable transport by designing a light weight EV. The impact of such a vehicle in the future cities by decreasing CO2 and noise pollution levels attracted strong interest among the visitors. It may be concluded that the event was a complete success in promoting research and innovation among the general population, as well as to raise awareness of the European Commission objectives with the Horizon 2020 programme.Valladolid’s Science Museum:
http://www.museocienciavalladolid.es/opencms/mcva/
EVolution Project: http://evolutionproject.eu/
by cidaut | Sep 5, 2014 | Sin categoría
The last dissemination event of the E-VECTOORC project was hosted in the Heritage Motor Center at Gaydon.
Three years after its launch, the E-VECTOORC consortium has organized the second and last workshop for stakeholders. This dissemination event was hosted in the Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon (United Kingdom) on the 28th of August, and was organized jointly by Jaguar/Land Rover, the Ilmenau University of Technology and the University of Surrey. More than 60 attendees had the opportunity to get in contact with the vehicle demonstrator and the range extender.
During the project a Land Rover Evoque was modified to build up a fully electric demonstrator equipped with torque vectoring controller. This vehicle has four individual electric motors (switched reluctance electric motors) in order to create a 4WD individual wheel driven car. Each motor is able to give 200 Nm of torque. Also, the trailer range extender equipped with a Diesel generator of 20 kW was brought from Jaguar Land Rover Headquarter.
The goal and the main developments carried out during the project were pointed out by the E-VECTOORC coordinator, Aldo Sorniotti (Surrey University). Following that, different speakers showed the activities carried out in their tasks within the project: Demonstrator vehicle construction, Safety and reliability aspects of fully electric vehicles, Direct yaw moment controllers and Vehicle longitudinal dynamics and control.
During the last part of the meeting, the attendees to the 2nd E-VECTOORC Dissemination Event could take a look to the project demonstrator and the range extender attending a live demonstration of the car driving under different conditions.
You can find more information about the project and the events carried out so far in our website http://www.e-vectoorc.eu/.
by cidaut | Jul 4, 2014 | Sin categoría
The Green eMotion project is part of the European Green Cars Initiative (EGCI) that was launched within the context of the European Recovery Plan. It supports the achievement of the EU’s ambitious climate goals, such as the reduction of CO2 emissions by 60 percent by the year 2050. EGCI supports the research and development of road transport solutions that have the potential to achieve sustainable as well as groundbreaking results in the use of renewable and non-polluting energy sources. The project is working to prepare the foundation for the mass deployment of Europe-wide electromobility.
Green eMotion demonstration sites, the locations from which EV will reach Brussels include Dublin, Strasburg, Berlin and Copenhagen among others.
As part of the Green eMotion project events, EV interoperability will be shown next September 18th in Brussels during the EC mobility week. Several partners in the project will drive different EV from their countries to the Belgium capital; the different charging events necessary to reach Brussels will be managed using the Green eMotion market place. The idea is to demonstrate that EV charging is feasible between different companies managing these charging points, as well as between different countries in a similar way to the mobile phone roaming. This rally to Brussels will be complemented on the morning of September 18th with a live demonstration of the EV interoperability. The EV driven to Brussels will be connected to different charging points, the identification of those vehicles, as well as the authorization for the charging of their batteries will be shown validating the Green eMotion marketplace, which is the tool developed within the project.
This Green eMotion project event will be held in Hotel Courtyard Brussels, Avenue des Olympiades 6, Brussels 1140 and it will include a demonstration of charging, using different vehicles, charging points and charging RFID cards. Afterwards, a series of conferences will be held, to present the main achievements of the project on the charging infrastructure, ICT tools and standards among others. The demonstration of the charging event and the marketplace will take place on the morning, while the conferences will take place from 13.00 to 17.00.
You will find more information on the following number of our newsletter, as well as on the Green eMotion project public web site http://www.greenemotion-project.eu/
