Innovation in the automotive industry is of pivotal importance for European´s prosperity. OSEM-EV will provide solutions for better autonomy and predictable range to address today´s car buyers concern about electro mobility. Just increasing the battery capacity is not a viable option because the expectation is to have a familiar level of comfort and safe, eco and human oriented mobility at affordable costs. OSEM-EV will translate the foreseen project innovations into a customer value proposition. The highest priority is improved mileage and predictable range without adding further cost and weight. The negative impact of high and low ambient temperatures will be limited. Cars autonomy will be increased due to a reduction of at least 50% of energy used for passenger comfort and at least 30% for component cooling in extreme conditions compared to current FEVs. The consortium will focus on thermal and coupled electro-thermal energy substitution and harvesting and smart energy usage for cooling and heating of the passenger compartment and in-car infrastructure. OSEM-EV goes for novel electro-thermal architectures and control algorithms including thermal insulation, thermal storage, innovative heating and cooling approaches applied to the powertrain (battery, inverter and motor), battery life duration enhancement as a side effect of thermal management, electronic control of energy and power flows, energy efficiency of electrified accessories, energy substitution and harvesting functions. The consortium will take a radical approach, which does not only rely on improving the efficiency of subsystems but also focuses on their interoperability. By creating an electro-thermal network, most of the energy shall be reutilized, no matter if stored in mechanical, electrical or thermal form.

Rare Earths (RE) are crucial materials for Europe's successful green and digital transition, thus classified as highly critical. The market for RE magnets itself is relatively small - about €6.5 billion - however its downstream leverage is enormous: the mobility business in the EU27 alone is expected to grow to about €500 billion by 2030, with 6 million jobs. While being a world leader in the manufacturing of e.g. electric motors, the EU27 is fully import-dependent along the entire value chain of RE magnet materials. Despite a growing market, European magnet production capacity is underutilised and tends to serve specialised niche applications. In addition, RE magnets are increasingly imported as part of motors and generator assemblies and products. The main reasons for these developments are that China has a monopoly in the RE supply chain across all stages from mining to refining. To overcome this issue, REEsilience will categorise RE for geographic locations, quantities, chemical composition, ethical and sustainable indicators, ramp-up scenarios, and pricing, considering all value streams from virgin to secondary material. It will build a production system that ensures a resilient and sustainable supply chain for RE as critical raw materials for the e-mobility, renewable energy and further strategic sectors in Europe with less dependencies on non-European economies. A newly-developed software tool will determine optimum mixing ratios to ensure consistently high product quality with maximum secondary materials for high-tech applications. Combined with new and improved technologies for alloy production and powder preparation, especially of secondary materials, the yield and stability of processes will be further enhanced, allowing further augmentation of the proportion of secondary materials in RE PM production, reducing at the same time waste, environmental damage, and consumption of energy linked with virgin production.

Valeo a développé la première génération de système « Stop and Start » aujourd'hui en production avec Citroën. Ce système d'alterno démarreur entraîné par courroie permet d'arrêter le moteur thermique pendant les phases d'arrêt et de le redémarrer rapidement et silencieusement. Il en résulte un absence totale de nuisances et de consommation durant les phases d'arrêt. Grâce au rendement amélioré de la machine en mode générateur cette technologie permet aussi des économies d'énergie pendant les phases de roulage._x000D_ Le but de ce projet est de développer une technologie innovante d'intégration d'électronique de puissance (IML) afin de mettre sur le marché la deuxième génération du système « Stop and Start » répondant simultanément à une demande de fort volume et de bas coût._x000D_ Le développement de cette technologie est particulièrement innovant et ambitieux, il nécessite le développement :_x000D_ • D'un module de puissance « bras de pont » acceptant des courants continus de 200A allant temporairement jusqu'à 680A piloté par un ASIC de pilotage intégrant le redressement synchrone._x000D_ • D'un module de contrôle en technologie hybride intégrant un ASIC comprenant un cœur de microprocesseur et un circuit d'excitation._x000D_ Cette technologie devra en outre pouvoir :_x000D_ • Assurer une parfaite Compatibilité Electro-Magnétique._x000D_ • Fonctionner dans un environnement très sévère (forte température et niveau vibratoire élevé)._x000D_ • S'intégrer dans le volume d'un alternateur classique._x000D_ • Avoir un niveau de fiabilité équivalent aux alternateurs actuels (moins d'un ppm de défaillance)