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The project proposal entitled INNOVATIVE HIGH EFFICIENCY SOLUTIONS FOR URBAN ELECTRIC TRANSPORTATION (INHERIT) represents an academic-industrial cooperation between Technical University of Cluj Napoca (UTCN) and Siemens Industry Software Romania, Brasșov (SISW). The challenge for creating development and testing tools of EV mechatronic systems drives the OEMs to elaborate simulation and testing tools in order to reduce the time-to-market, the lead-time as well as the integrability of new generation vehicles into the existing urban transportation infrastructure. The novelty of INHERIT is achieved by conceptual design, simulation and testing solutions, integrated into one genuine tool, reaching the optimal balance between system requirements, components-requirements, implementation costs, reliability and urban integration of electric vehicles (EVs) dedicated for urban transportation (cargo and/or inhabitants) in door to door services, highly unaddressed in the field of automotive industry. The novel concept is to create smaller size EVs, in which the classical LiIon battery is replaced with a modular supercapacitor power bank. The latter will ensure the increased efficiency of the EV and lower development cost. A real-time genuine analysis tool is developed validated with a hardware in the loop (HiL) scaled testing facility. The result of the research is a development and test environment feasible to create next generation urban utility vehicles that now are missing from the urban traffic scenario.

General scope

The general scope of INHERIT is to offer genuine solutions to reduce the time-to-market, the lead-time as well as the inerrability of new generation vehicles into the existing urban transportation infrastructure. These are targeted by creating tools integrated into one powerful digital platform usable by OEMs to quickly design, analyze, adapt to custom user-requirements and test EVs for urban services, reaching increased efficiency and lower acquisition prices.

Project identifier PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2019-4384 491PED