ENIAC Call 1 E3CAR Nanoelectronics for an Energy Efficient Electrical Car

The project considers both vertical integration with the final user and equipment providers and horizontal cooperation to build a solid nanoelectronics technology base for Europe electrical car industry and establish standard designs and platforms for ele ctrical/hybrid cars. The project will consider architectures, technologies and modules being applied to electric vehicles on systems and sub-system levels. New design and concepts are considered for power train, power conversion, power management and battery management. These systems are considered fail safe and fault tolerant and new methods and technologies for improved reliability and increased lifetime will be developed during the validation phase. In this context the power and high voltage ele ctronics and smart miniaturized systems for power management, engine control and energy recovery systems will be specified and developed, based on the voltage/current range of needed modules. This results in research activities concerning MOS/DMOS or IGBT -Technologies to become highly energy efficient. The over all targets are energy savings of 35%.