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This document is a comprehensive legislative act from the Official Journal of the European Union, focusing on the regulation and management of batteries. It outlines detailed provisions addressing sustainability and safety requirements, labelling and marking standards, conformity assessments, and the obligations of economic operators. 

Additionally, it includes specific guidelines for the management of waste batteries and introduces the concept of a digital battery passport. The overarching purpose of this legislation is to promote the safe, sustainable, and efficient use of batteries within the European Union, ensuring environmental protection and fostering responsible industry practices.

The document is a proposal from the European Commission for a regulation by the European Parliament and the Council. The regulation focuses on circularity requirements for vehicle design and the management of end-of-life vehicles (ELVs).

The proposed regulation aims to modernize the EU's legislative framework for vehicle design and end-of-life management, promoting a circular economy and reducing the environmental footprint of the automotive sector. It introduces comprehensive requirements for vehicle manufacturers, waste management operators, and Member States to ensure sustainable practices throughout the vehicle lifecycle.

The document is a proposal from the European Commission for a regulation by the European Parliament and the Council. The regulation focuses on circularity requirements for vehicle design and the management of end-of-life vehicles (ELVs).

The proposed regulation aims to modernize the EU's legislative framework for vehicle design and end-of-life management, promoting a circular economy and reducing the environmental footprint of the automotive sector. It introduces comprehensive requirements for vehicle manufacturers, waste management operators, and Member States to ensure sustainable practices throughout the vehicle lifecycle.

The target of this deliverable is to define the basic sizes (continuous and peak torque and power ratings, mass, expected available packaging envelopes) of the investigated components and systems for case studies. Furthermore, a set of integrated EM-TECH corner modules and on-board electric drive solutions for electric vehicles are defined to cover the widest possible range of vehicle segments. This deliverable also describes the associated machine control such as the cooling control and the inverter control for the new machines, and the vehicle controls to exploit the benefits to vehicle performance brought by the new machines, including the wheel slip control, the motor regenerative braking and braking blending, and the anti-jerk control.

This research article, published in the International Journal of Vehicle Information and Communication Systems, explores advanced methods for enhancing human-computer interaction in electric vehicles. It introduces improved speech recognition and visual imagery analysis techniques to optimize vehicle interior design, aiming to make in-vehicle interactions more intuitive and efficient.

This paper provides an extensive review on the latest works carried out to optimize the power flow in EV powertrains using multispeed discrete transmission, continuously variable transmission and multi-motor configurations. The relevant literatures were shortlisted using a keyword search related to EV powertrain in the ScienceDirect and Scopus databases. The review focused on the related literatures published from 2018 onwards. The publications were reviewed in terms of the methodologies applied to optimize the powertrain for efficiency and driving performance. Next, the significant findings from these literatures were discussed and compared. Finally, based on the review, several future key research areas in EV powertrain efficiency and performance are highlighted.

This paper presents an exhaustive review of diverse thermal management approaches at both the component and system levels, focusing on electric vehicle air conditioning systems, battery thermal management systems, and motor thermal management systems. In each subsystem, an advanced heat transfer process with phase change is recommended to dissipate the heat or directly cool the target. Moreover, the review suggested that a comprehensive integration of AC systems, battery thermal management systems, and motor thermal management systems is inevitable and is expected to maximize energy utilization efficiency.

Samsung's battery and renewable energy division plays a pivotal role in the electric vehicle (EV) market. Holding a 5% market share, the company exemplifies the convergence of the automotive and technology industries by supplying vehicle batteries alongside other electronic components. Its expertise lies in the production of lithium-ion batteries, celebrated for their exceptional energy density, performance, and reliability, making them a preferred choice for modern electric vehicles. Through continuous innovation, Samsung remains a key contributor to the advancement of sustainable transportation technologies.

This deliverable reports the selection of the optimum power devices for implementing the SCAPE high-voltage switching cells, after a literature review and commercial availability check. In addition to suitable electrical characteristics, the selection of candidates considered the suitability and availability of bare-die components for their subsequent chip embedding process. Two SiC MOSFET references have been selected and samples have been obtained for an initial test campaign (GeneSiC G4R12MT07. 750V – 12 mΩ and Wolfspeed CPM3-0650-0015A. 650V – 15 mΩ). For the development of the low-voltage switching cells of the auxiliary SCAPE converters, GaN HEMTs from EPC will be selected. The deliverable also includes a prospective and literature review about power device emerging technologies. 

The Horizon Europe HighScape project will explore the feasibility of a family of highly efficient power electronics (PE) components and systems for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs), including integrated traction inverters, onboard chargers (OBCs), DC-DC converters, and electric drives for auxiliaries and chassis actuators. 

In the work leading to this deliverable, the HighScape component providers and developers, focusing on the adoption of Wide Bandgap (WBG) based PE devices, have been generating the detailed simulation models of the respective components and systems (i.e., traction motor and traction inverter, OBCs, DC-DC converters, drives for Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC), and high voltage levelling suspension systems, and thermal systems for PE components/the whole vehicle), with a coverage of their parametrisation involving a wide range of BEV applications targeted in the project. The models enable model-based component and system design at the electrical, electronic, thermal and control levels. The components and systems models have been assembled into a vehicle simulation toolchain, for the rapid assessment of the implications of component design at the vehicle level, including considerations of thermal aspects. Due to the associated computational effort, the component models have been converted into surrogate models, such as Functional Mock-up Units (FMU) before their inclusion in the BEV simulation model. The definition, benefits and limitations of such surrogate models are discussed in the document.