Abstract:

Electrification of road transport is a key challenge to reach the emission targets while enabling efficient mobility for persons and goods. Even though solutions already exist on the market, e-mobility is still a niche market. Main challenges for large scale deployment include higher maturity with respect to performance (e.g., range), development efficiency (e.g., time-to-market), or production costs. Additionally, an important market transformation currently occurs with the co-development of automated driving functions, connectivity, mobility-as-a-service. In this context, the European Commission started different research programs in 2018 with a total volume of more than 50Mi€. Target of this paper is to present an overview of these programs and discuss how this portfolio will provide significant advances for e-mobility relying on European technologies.