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Project in focus: ZEFES

March 17, 2023

Road freight transport is the backbone of the European economy and essential to the integrated European logistics and transport system. Road transport is by far the most important mode of freight transport, delivering goods across Europe quickly, efficiently, flexibly and cost-effectively. However, it causes negative externalities such as noise, CO2 and particulate matter emissions. The ZEFES project (Zero emission flexible vehicle platforms with modular powertrains serving the long-haul freight ecosystem) addresses the decarbonisation of long-distance freight transport by demonstrating real-world applications with battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs)...
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Registration for EUCAD2023 Conference is now open!

March 8, 2023

The 4th European Conference on Connected and Automated Driving (EUCAD2023) will take place in Brussels on 3 and 4 May 2023. It is the only conference in Europe that brings political leaders from the European Commission and Member States together with European and international high-level representatives of industry, academia and road authorities to discuss whether our societies are ready to deploy smart, inclusive and sustainable mobility solutions. In this event, EUCAR and its partners, together with the European Commission, will take stock of the latest research, policy, and regulatory developments in the field of CCAM while identifying challenges and needs for further actions. It...
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More than 400 participants attended the RTR 2023 conference

February 17, 2023

From 14 to 16 February 2023, ERTRAC, 2Zero, CCAM and the European Commission services organised the Conference on Results from Road Transport Research (RTR) with more than 400 attendees. In this event, stakeholders presented Horizon2020 projects’ results, expected impacts, and next research steps in essential areas for road transport. In the opening session, Stephan Neugebauer, Director Global Research Cooperation, BMW and ERTRAC & EGVIAfor2Zero Chair, Rosalinde van der Vlies, Director - Clean Planet, European Commission, DG Research and Innovation (DG RTD) and Torsten KLIMKE, Head of Unit B3, Innovation and Research, European Commission, DG Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE)...
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“Emerging technologies will help us address our present and future mobility challenges. We will fully leverage this knowledge so that the automotive manufacturers continue to provide safer, cleaner and more sustainable road transport solutions with benefits to their users and society.”

- Dr Peter Lehnert, VP Technology and Innovation Digital Car, BMW Group

“We are in the era of transformation, with new ways of working, new players entering the market, and an acceleration of innovation and novel business models to reach a truly sustainable society. In EUCAR, the European vehicle manufacturers come together in pre-competitive collaboration towards a common vision. We identify key areas and perspectives for research and innovation as well as ways to interact with the eco-system around us, facilitating successful projects with tangible results! Together we can shape the world we want to live in.”

- Ms Helene Niklasson, Vice President Innovation Ecosystems and Partnerships, Volvo Group

“As members of EUCAR, we are focussed on the results of our projects in order to develop technologies that further improve road safety, reduce the environmental footprint of mobility, and increase the cost-effectiveness of vehicles and mobility solutions.”

- Carla Gohin, CTO, Research & Innovation Senior Vice President, PSA Peugeot-Citroën

“Pre-competitive research co-operation at EUCAR is essential to drive European innovation forward. EUCAR projects provide new ideas and solutions to tackle the challenges Europe is facing in establishing safe, secure, sustainable and connected mobility. Joint co-operation within EUCAR projects helps us develop new measures to handle cross-border challenges. One prime example for such a EUCAR project is the L3Pilot where we test the viability of automated driving as a safe and efficient means of transportation on public roads with 1,000 drivers and 100 cars across ten European countries, including cross-border routes.”

- Nikolai Ardey, Executive Director, Group Innovation at Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft

“EUCAR, the European Council for automotive R&D, plays an active part in finding holistic solutions for all Europeans to the mobility challenges of tomorrow. Considering that the automotive sector also generates more than 13 million direct and indirect EU jobs, we are an integral part of European society.”

- Gerd Schuster, Senior Vice President Research, New Technology and Innovation, BMW Group

“With EUCAR‘s collaborative research projects we strive to serve the citizens of Europe. We help to develop new services, new products and improved ways to support customers and the society in a way that also creates the jobs of tomorrow.”

- Urban Wass, Former Senior Vice President, Research & Innovation Policy, Volvo Group

“The European Council for Automotive R&D (EUCAR) has been the voice of automobile manufacturers in the field of R&D for 25 years. During this period, EUCAR has successfully contributed to establishing a multitude of research projects, all of them promoting clean, safe and efficient mobility.”

- Stefan Deix, Director of EUCAR

“Within EUCAR, we strive for long-term collaboration by joining forces in a targeted way and benefitting from synergies. We seek to provide a common insight into current research and innovation projects tackling challenges in the fields of safe and integrated mobility, sustainable propulsion, virtual engineering and manufacturing and commercial vehicles.”

- Axel Heinrich, Former Executive Director, Group Innovation at Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft

“EUCAR projects help to develop even safer vehicles; we are securing connected vehicles against manipulations and cyber threats; and we provide a solid knowledgebase for the safe introduction of automated driving.”

- Urban Wass, Former Senior Vice President, Research & Innovation Policy, Volvo Group

Project in focus: ZEFES

Registration for EUCAD2023 Conference is now open!

More than 400 participants attended the RTR 2023 conference

Project in Focus: TranSensus LCA

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Project in focus: ZEFES

Registration for EUCAD2023 Conference is now open!

More than 400 participants attended the RTR 2023 conference

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