Objective The V-FEATHER project presents a complete electric vehicle architecture vision on how urban light duty vehicles will be designed, built and run in the near future. This project is led by industrial partners with emphasis on energy efficiency, commercial viability, life cycle design and development of new technologies for LDVs steered by leading research institutes.The vehicle is built around an active adaptive structural architecture (ADAPTecture) that replaces the “platform” concept with a modular building block concept. The functional modules are part of the vehicle structure itself thus reducing the frame weight and add their own power and energy units which can be shared. This increases the payload capacity and the available power to weight ratio of the vehicle can be controlled.As the weight distribution and structural integrity changes when a payload module is added or removed, active vehicle dynamics are incorporated through a modular actively controlled reconfigurable structure, collapsible body panels, active suspension modules incorporating in-hub motors and modular battery pack systems. A High-level control architecture controls the vehicle dynamics, active safety, power and energy requirements and driver interaction.The specifications of these modular LDV are based on a radical new Deposit, Rapid Recharge and Recollect (D3R) system for urban freight, last mile delivery, freight security and tracking. The modular vehicle is able to drop off modules for delivery, recharging and collection later while continuing a freight run. This varying payload structure and vehicle footprint allows the LDV to function in the entirety of the supply chain run. Dynamic charging (while moving) can be carried out using available infrastructures. The D3R concept could theoretically allow 24 hour running without a single charge pause.A complete prototype vehicle with a cab and payload module will be developed during the project to validate and test the new concepts. Fields of science social sciencessocial geographytransportelectric vehicles Programme(s) FP7-TRANSPORT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Transport (including Aeronautics) Topic(s) GC.SST.2011.7-10. - Architectures of Light Duty Vehicles for urban freight transport Call for proposal FP7-SST-2011-RTD-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project Coordinator CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY Address College road MK43 0AL Cranfield - bedfordshire United Kingdom See on map Region East of England Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Central Bedfordshire Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Michael Bayes (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution No data Participants (10) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CENTRE DE RECHERCHE PUBLIC HENRI TUDOR Participation ended Luxembourg EU contribution € 0,00 Address Avenue j f kennedy 29 1855 Luxembourg See on map Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Djamel Khadraoui (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data AYTON WILLOW LTD United Kingdom EU contribution € 270 143,00 Address St john street 145-157 EC1V 4PW London See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Aazir Khan (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT HAMBURG Germany EU contribution € 318 845,00 Address Am schwarzenberg campus 1 21073 Hamburg See on map Region Hamburg Hamburg Hamburg Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Stefanie Bollwitt (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data TUK TUK HOLDING BV Netherlands EU contribution € 347 918,00 Address Verrijn stuartweg 22 p 1112 AX Diemen See on map Region West-Nederland Noord-Holland Groot-Amsterdam Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Roland Vos (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data DENSO AUTOMOTIVE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH Germany EU contribution € 120 972,00 Address Freisinger strasse 21 85386 Eching See on map Region Bayern Oberbayern Freising Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Hasan Esen (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data CLEANCARB SARL Luxembourg EU contribution € 313 102,00 Address Rue schmitz 2a 8190 Kopstal See on map Region Luxembourg Luxembourg Luxembourg Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Peter Dooley (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data KING'S COLLEGE LONDON United Kingdom EU contribution € 308 695,00 Address Strand WC2R 2LS London See on map Region London Inner London — West Westminster Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Paul Labbett (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Luxembourg EU contribution € 180 228,00 Address 5 avenue des hauts fourneaux 4362 Esch sur alzette See on map Region Luxembourg Luxembourg Luxembourg Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Djamel Khadraoui (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data TIMONEY TECHNOLOGY LTD Participation ended Ireland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Gibbstown Navan See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Frank O'rourke (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Other funding No data ECOMOVE APS Denmark EU contribution € 182 876,00 Address Chr m. ostergaards vej 4 a vbi park 8700 Horsens See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Løkke Mogens (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data
