Call for Tenders: Impact of ICT Reseach and Development in the Large Scale Development of Smart Electric Cars

Posted on May 14, 2011 by


The European Commission has released a Call to Tender to commission a detailed study that will analyse the barriers that currently hamper an accelerated deployment of electric vehicles in Europe. In the study, the issues to be considered are hurdles in terms of research, development and industrialization of the enabling smart systems and electrical architectures in general.

>> For more information and to respond visit the EU’s CORDIS website

The objectives of the study are to include:

  1. Analysing the landscape of European R&D, manufacturing and deployment in the domains of automotive ICT, smart systems (including electric storage systems) and architectures for the fully electric vehicle
  2. Assessment of the enabling role of automotive smart components, systems and architectures for technology design and development, manufacturing and deployment of the fully electric vehicle and comparison with other fields of enabling technologies.
  3. Identification of hurdles for timely technology development, industrialization deployment of electric vehicles in Europe and deduction of roadmaps for overcoming these hurdles.
  4. Assessment of the environmental and health impacts of the deployment of electric vehicles versus internal combustion engine vehicles including those powered by alternative fuels.
  5. Analysis of the socio economic dimension of electric mobility. Further potential contribution of the fully electric vehicles towards European policies: (a) Europe 2020 flagships “Resource efficient Europe”, “Innovation Union”, “Industrial policy for the globalisation era” and “Digital agenda for Europe” (b) contribution towards a low carbon economy in 2050.
  6. Proposals for the content, timeframe and implementation of European R&D lighthouse projects in the domain of ICT for the fully electric vehicle, e.g. advanced R&D programs, public procurement initiatives, reference centres for testing and impact assessment, alliances for manufacturing of critical components, or educational campaigns.
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