📋 Tender Overview
ePowerMove
Grant agreement ID: 101192753
DOI
10.3030/101192753
EC signature date
13 December 2024
Start date
1 January 2025
End date
30 June 2028
Description: The electric car market has grown rapidly in recent years. The EU has enacted legislation to support electrification goals and is funding R&D for affordable, user-friendly electric vehicles. Adequate charging infrastructure is essential for maintaining a good ratio of EVs to chargers. The EU-funded ePowerMove project will create a global energy usage optimiser that combines cutting-edge technologies in charging infrastructure and grid energy management. The project will focus on social innovation, affordability, and user acceptance. It proposes cost-effective, bidirectional, and interoperable slow-charging solutions that enhance power supply efficiency while integrating renewable energy systems, aiming to accelerate the shift to sustainable urban e-mobility. The project will perform demonstrations in Helsinki, Klagenfurt, and Nicosia.
Objective
Electric car markets have grown exponentially in recent years and the trend continued strongly through 2023. The EU has passed legislation to match its electrification ambitions, and more R&D projects are being funded to develop affordable user-centric EV concepts. Equally important is the sufficient coverage of charging infrastructure to achieve the optimal ratio of EVs per charger. The ePowerMove concept is to develop a global energy-usage optimiser which brings together advanced technologies from charging infrastructure design and grid energy control, with a number of innovative and complementary elements to maximise the potential utilisation of individual innovations. All developments in the project are driven by social innovation, affordability and user acceptability, meeting users’ needs and requirements in socio-cultural contexts of different communities. The proposed slow charging solutions are cost-effective, bi-directional and interoperable, and intelligently synergised with the grid, to optimise the overall efficiency and capacity of power supply, mindful of increasing penetration of renewable energy systems. Solutions are demonstrated in Helsinki (Finland) with focus on charging infrastructure cost reduction and people-friendly applications, Klagenfurt (Austria) with focus on business model development and Nicosia (Cyprus) with focus on grid compatibility and energy flow optimisation. The multi-level systemic architecture is designed to be flexible, scalable, and compatible with a variety of regional power systems and V2G technologies. New business and usage models are explored to maximise the project results' impact, building up from a proven proliferation model developed in several EU-funded projects to assess policy intervention scenarios and strategies for mass-deployment EV uptake. ePowerMove will accelerate the transition to sustainable urban e-mobility and contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in
