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The Sustainable & Smart Mobility Strategy outlines the European Union's comprehensive strategy to transform its transport sector into a sustainable, smart, and resilient system. Recognising the critical role of mobility in economic and social life, the strategy aims to address the environmental and societal costs associated with transport, such as greenhouse gas emissions and pollution. By setting ambitious targets for 2030 and 2050, the EU seeks to significantly reduce emissions, enhance digitalisation, and ensure inclusive connectivity. This roadmap includes ten flagship areas with specific actions to modernise the transport sector, promote zero-emission vehicles, improve infrastructure, and foster innovation, all while ensuring that the transition is socially fair and just.

The European Green Deal, presented by the European Commission on December 11, 2019, outlines a comprehensive strategy to transform the European Union into a fair and prosperous society with a modern, resource-efficient, and competitive economy. This initiative aims to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, decouple economic growth from resource use, and protect the health and well-being of citizens. 

The Green Deal addresses urgent climate and environmental challenges, emphasising the need for a just and inclusive transition that involves all sectors of society. It also highlights the EU's role in leading global efforts to combat climate change and biodiversity loss, leveraging its influence, expertise, and financial resources to mobilise international cooperation.

This report provides a comprehensive overview of thermal management system strategies, modeling, and simulation within the RHODaS project. 

It focuses on detailing the thermal interface between inverters and cooling systems, exploring estimated junction temperatures, and analysing the potential impacts of design choices on equivalent thermal resistance, as well as advanced 3D thermal and power loss modeling, employing Finite Element Analysis, with COMSOL Multiphysics playing a crucial role in heatsink design. Fundamental simulations cover aspects like liquid-cooled heatsink design and sensitivity studies.

The switching-cell array is a flexible device formed by a matrix arrangement of highly optimized switching cells all at the same voltage rating. The switching cells within a switching-cell array can be interconnected in different ways, providing some degrees of freedom that could be exploited to pursue reduction and/or more even distribution of power losses in the power converters. To compare power converter legs based on different configurations of switching-cell arrays, a proper steady-state average thermo-electrical model is required, to estimate losses and temperature of all power semiconductor devices within the converter legs. This work presents the thermal analysis of power devices within power converter legs based on switching-cell arrays. Detailed transient and steadystate average thermo-electrical models are provided to calculate the conduction and switching losses, together with the junction temperature of the power devices. The steady-state average thermo-electrical model operates faster than the transient model, with comparable accuracy to the transient model. The accuracy of the steady-state average model is evaluated by comparison to the transient model, under different scenarios and through analytical studies. Finally, both thermo-electrical models are verified through experimental tests.

This work aims to bridge the gap between individual research to provide a comprehensive review from a technically informed and academically neutral standpoint. Conceptual groundwork of digital twin technology is built systematically for the reader, to allow insight into its inception and evolution. The study sifts the digital twin domain for contributions in smart vehicle systems, exploring its potential and contemporaneous challenges to realization.

The Towards zero emission road transport (2Zero) is a co-programmed Partnership funded under the Horizon Europe programme and aiming at accelerating the transition towards zero tailpipe emission road mobility across Europe. Formally launched on 23rd June 2021, the 2Zero partnership builds upon the successes of the European Green Cars Initiative (EGCI: 2009-2013) and the European Green Vehicles Initiative (EGVI: 2014-2020).

EGCI was created in an ad-hoc manner in the 7th Framework Programme in response to the global economic crisis of 2008 and led to the joint funding of 113 collaborative research projects. Bringing together stakeholders from three different European Technology Platforms (ERTRAC, EPoSS and Smart Grids), the European Green Vehicles Initiative contributed to improving the energy efficiency of alternative powertrains in road transport.

Transfer Multisort Elektronik, based in Poland, is a leading distributor of electronic components, including those used in electric vehicles. They provide a wide selection of products for automotive applications, with a robust online marketplace for purchasing components.

In this article the ergonomic interior design process of the electric vehicle MUTE is shown exemplarily. In addition to a discussion of different design principles of the driver's workplace, the simulation capabilities of RAMSIS and the tool RAMSIS cognitive are explained using the example of the design of a central touchscreen, which acts as the main input device for secondary and tertiary tasks.

The aim of the present work is to establish which are the main driveline components affecting the filtering behavior of the transmission and how their parameters can be tuned in order to improve the vehicle ability to respond to driver’s different demands without negative impact on his comfort. A complete nonlinear coupled torsional and longitudinal vehicle dynamic model is proposed to this end. The model is validated both in time and frequency domain and allows linearization of its nonlinear components.