Extended lifetime of road Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) (2ZERO Partnership)
Pays one research project up to EUR 7 million to raise electric-car resale values by 20% through better understanding of how drivetrain components age.
This topic only covers light-duty vehicles -- passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in categories M1 and N1 -- not trucks, buses or other heavy-duty electric vehicles. The 20% higher resale value goal is not the only number attached to this topic: the work is also expected to cut resource use during the vehicle's operating life by 20% and its environmental footprint by 5%, both measured aga…
The Commission wants research into how electric-vehicle drivetrain components — excluding the battery cells themselves — age and degrade, so that maintenance, repair and design strategies can extend a vehicle's useful life and raise its resale value. Proposals should develop tools to predict component ageing, build extended-lifetime design concepts, and validate them with a full physical demonstrator, aiming for a 20% higher residual value than today's baseline vehicle.
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