Road Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) optimised user-centric solutions for energy efficiency design and consistent range throughout weather conditions (2ZERO Partnership)
Horizon Europe Work Programme 2025 – Cluster 5: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Amount not specified
04/09/2025
Non-profit, Private Business, Research Institution, Public Institution
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What is the Road Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) optimised user-centric solutions for energy efficiency design and consistent range throughout weather conditions (2ZERO Partnership) Call?
Expected Outcomes
• A validated set of user requirements and usage acceptance limits (e.g. acceptable range loss for cabin climatization) for diverse vehicle user groups and driving habits under various weather conditions.
• Demonstration of innovative, affordable LDV/LCV energy management solutions in a prototypical system (mock-up vehicle) under extreme ambient conditions, benchmarked against the State of the Art, balancing comfort (temperature, humidity, CO₂) and driving range.
• Reduction of user-specific vehicle range loss due to climatization at extreme conditions by at least 30% compared to the State of the Art, from normal (10–20 °C) to extreme ambient temperatures, without increasing system cost.
• Optimal energy management achieving a 10% improvement in total energy demand for both thermal system and powertrain by integrating future smart-city standards (speed control, environmental forecasting, swarm information, grid peak-load periods).
Scope Requirements
• Preserve right-sized battery benefits (affordability, resource/energy savings) while reducing driving-range impact of occasional extreme weather for LDVs and LCVs, especially on longer trips.
• Meet relevant automotive standards (e.g. ISO 7730, ISO 14505-4) under normal use.
• Adopt a novel, user-centric, system-level thermal management approach (including possible vehicle-infrastructure interfaces) that minimises energy use, simplifies system architecture and does not increase vehicle/system cost.
• Analyse and validate user requirements, acceptance limits and usage models to set design criteria.
• Establish a holistic optimisation framework using usage scenarios and external data to avoid cascading safety margins and oversizing.
• Explore grid integration potentials without overloading during extreme conditions.
• Develop and integrate AI-based predictive energy management for seldom extreme weather, balancing costs, complexity and user preferences.
• Integrate all concepts into a prototype/mock-up vehicle and demonstrate in a relevant environment.
Special Conditions
• Admissibility per Annex A/E (page limits, layout), eligible countries per Annex B, financial capacity per Annex C, evaluation criteria per Annex D and F, legal/financial rules per Annex G of Horizon Europe General Annexes.
• Open Science and FAIR data management practices are mandatory.
• Projects must report results and KPI monitoring data to the European Partnership ‘Towards zero emission road transport’ (2 ZERO).
• No additional topic-specific conditions beyond standard Horizon Europe requirements.
Open from: 06/05/2025
Deadline:04/09/2025
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