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COmplete Vehicle Energy-saving Technologies for Heavy-Trucks (CONVENIENT)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

The CONVENIENT project targets a 30% reduction of fuel consumption in vehicles for long-distance freight transport by developing an innovative heavy-truck archetype featuring a suite of innovative energy-saving technologies and solutions.From the customer viewpoint, fuel efficiency is top priority because of its significant impact in terms of cost (in the EU, fuel represents about 30% of the Total ...
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Metal supported SOFC technology for stationary and mobile applications (METSAPP)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

"State of the art SOFC technology for stationary as well as for transportation application is to date being demonstrated with either planar or tubular ceramic anode-supported or electrolyte-supported SOFC cells. However, the SOFC technology faces many challenges when it comes to commercialization, since cost reduction, reliability and extended lifetime is required. In order to improve durability a ...
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Demonstration of 1st European SOFC Truck APU (DESTA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

Within the DESTA project the first European SOFC (“Solid Oxide Fuel Cell”) Truck APU (“Auxiliary Power Unit”) will be demonstrated. SOFC technology offers big advantages compared to other fuel cell technologies due to compatibility to conventional road fuels like diesel. Within the last years significant improvements have been made to bring SOFC stack technology and APU BoP components to prototype ...
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Verification and Testing to Support Functional Safety Standards (VeTeSS)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

New safety standards, such as ISO 26262, present a challenge for companies producing safety-relevant embedded systems. Safety verification today is often ad-hoc and manual; it is done differently for digital and analogue, hardware and software.The VeTeSS project will develop standardized tools and methods for verification of the robustness of safety-relevant systems, particularly against transient ...
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nSafety Certification of Software-Intensive Systems with Reusable Components (nSafeCer)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

European industry has a great potential to achieve a leading position in the growing global market of safety-relevant embedded systems, provided it is able to devise efficient and industrial-strength methods and processes for their development and certification.nSafeCer targets increased efficiency and reduced time-to-market by composable safety certification of safety-relevant embedded systems. A ...
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Smart Electric Vehicle Value Chains (Smart EV-VC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

The objectives of sustainable road mobility, i.e. energy efficiency, climate protection, and zero emissions, imply a paradigm shift in the concept of the automobile regarding its architecture, design, materials, and propulsion technology. The fully electric vehicle (FEV) is widely considered the most suitable option for the 'green' car of the future, even though it is still facing a multitude of m ...
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Support Action for Implementation of ERTRAC's Road Transport Research Priorities (SAFIER)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

"SAFIER will build the strategies for implementing a step-change in the road transport sector - and more widely within the transport and energy sectors – by providing the objective, consensus-based plans for the European Technology Platform ERTRAC (European Road Transport Research Advisory Council), Since 2002 ERTRAC has been an open forum for all relevant stakeholders in the road transport resear ...
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Information and Communication Technologies \nfor the Full Electric Vehicle (ICT4FEV)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

Description Coordination ActionICT4FEV is a Coordination Action in the framwork of the European Green Cars Initiative. The focus of the project is on enabling the full electric vehicle (FEV) by opening new technology paths towards energy efficiency, functionality and usability that are complementary to future advances in performance of ba ...
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Integrated Gas Powertrain - Low Emission, CO2 optimised and efficient CNG engines for passenger cars (PC) and light duty vehicles (LDV) (InGAS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

Main objective of “Integrated gas powertrain (InGas)” Collaborative Project is to deploy a custom designed engine integrated with specific aftertreatment systems applied to a light duty vehicle able to achieve a 10% higher fuel conversion efficiency than that of a corresponding 2006 diesel vehicle and complying with an emission level lower than Euro 6. Additional features are advanced storage syst ...
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Development of next generation metal based SOFC stack technology (METSOFC)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"Today ceramic anode-supported SOFC cells represent the state-of-the-art with respect to high-temperature fuel cells. However the use of ceramic SOFC cells inherently impose limits in terms of reliability, cost and ability to handle transients. The objective of the METSOFC project is to develop the next generation of metal based SOFC stack technology. Within the project metal supported SOFC cells ...
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Promoting Standardisation for Embedded Systems (ProSE)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

ProSE is a supporting standardisation action in the field of Embedded Systems (ES) in which standards are of strategic importance for the creation of markets. ProSE will provide a vision and recommendations on the way that Embedded Systems standards can create cross business domains synergies:o\tby addressing specific cross domain issues such as the reusability, reliability of the embedded softwar ...
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