Objective Increasing energy costs and stringent CO2 emission targets drive the growing market opportunity (and societal need) for fully electric vehicles (EVs). The ELVA project focuses on electric cars for city passengers and urban delivery where traffic volume is high and the impact on the local environment is most significant. Knowledge transfer to other vehicle types will be facilitated by a novel design approach to be developed by ELVA.The change in propulsion technology from internal combustion engines (ICE) to electric powertrains will lead to the integration of new components and systems, while others undergo changes or become obsolete. This opens up new freedom in design and clears the way for new vehicle concepts. ELVA is to deliver results that allow for full exploitation of this new freedom, while responding to changing future market demands.To achieve this key objective, the ELVA project generates, investigates and analyzes innovative design concepts for EVs. It delivers a wide range of advanced modular architectures which enable at least the same high level of intrinsic safety as known from current best in class conventional vehicles at minimal weight, maximised energy efficiency, optimized ergonomics & loading space at affordable costs as well as acceptable levels of comfort and driving performance.In particular ELVA delivers best practices and evidence based design rules for modular lightweight and safe architectures specific to EVs. These practices and design rules will feed into and partially replace existing experience-based design methodologies, which have been developed over more than a century of vehicle design around the internal combustion engine.ELVA will achieve a substantial impact with regard to a greener road transport system and a competitive car industry due to the strong involvement of leading industrial partners including 3 car makers that together are expected to produce a substantial part of all EVs sold in Europe in the next decade. Fields of science social sciencessocial geographytransportelectric vehiclessocial sciencespsychologyergonomics Programme(s) FP7-TRANSPORT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Transport (including Aeronautics) Topic(s) GC-SST.2010.7-5. - Advanced electric vehicle concepts Call for proposal FP7-SST-2010-RTD-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project Coordinator RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN Address Templergraben 55 52062 Aachen Germany See on map Region Nordrhein-Westfalen Köln Städteregion Aachen Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Micha Lesemann (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 533 000,00 Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH Germany EU contribution € 373 330,00 Address Vahrenwalder strasse 9 30165 Hannover See on map Region Niedersachsen Hannover Region Hannover Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Maja Stevanovic (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window CENTRO RICERCHE FIAT SCPA Italy EU contribution € 516 069,00 Address Strada torino 50 10043 Orbassano See on map Region Nord-Ovest Piemonte Torino Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Massimo Casali (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window IDIADA AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY SA Spain EU contribution € 250 200,00 Address L albornar 43710 Santa oliva See on map Region Este Cataluña Tarragona Administrative Contact Victoria Domingo (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window RENAULT SAS France EU contribution € 392 269,00 Address 122-122b avenue du general leclerc 92100 Boulogne billancourt See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Hauts-de-Seine Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Vincent Délu (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOGSKOLA AB Sweden EU contribution € 334 519,00 Address - 412 96 Goteborg See on map Region Södra Sverige Västsverige Västra Götalands län Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Jac Wismans (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT Germany EU contribution € 500 011,00 Address Berliner ring 2 38440 Wolfsburg See on map Region Niedersachsen Braunschweig Wolfsburg, Kreisfreie Stadt Administrative Contact Martin Goede (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window
