• Electric power can be produced by clean and
renewable energy
• Research on electric components, their
integration into vehicles and on electric vehicle
concepts can drastically improve energy
efficiency
• New system approaches and business models for
battery management can lead to short to
medium term large scale deployment of electric
cars
• Further progress on Lithium-ion batteries will
improve attractiveness of electric cars

Electrical machines
→Objective: development of electric machines that are at the same time cheap and
highly efficient (on a wide torque/speed range) with high power to weight and
volume ratios, reliable and robust, and capable to be mass-produced.
Particular attention should therefore be paid to the availability of some raw
materials, in particular those needed for the magnetic components, as well as to
the integration with the required electronic components.
→Coverage:
♦ Exploring innovative topologies and concepts (including consideration of
intrinsic fault tolerance) for the various types of applications (from in-wheel to
stand-alone or engine-integrated ones).
♦ Researching high performance conductive, magnetic and insulating materials.
♦ Defining simplified, high efficiency cooling concepts.
♦ Developing advanced magnetic modelling tools.
♦ Defining automated manufacturing concepts that, given the gradual
introduction of these devices, are flexible enough to be capable of supporting
efficient manufacturing at the different rates needed in the early and full
scale phases of the electrification process.
→Transport modes: Road Transport
→Funding schemes: level 1 CP <= 3M€

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