It is estimated that at least one million electric vehicles will be on the roads in Germany. The German federal government is pursuing an integrated strategy when it comes to electric mobility. The “National Development Plan Electric Mobility“ is the first ever means for synchronising and implementing all measures in a coordinated manner – from education, training, and competence development at universities via the development of batteries, network integration, and energy management all the way to market preparation. The government is convinced that if new functions of an intelligent vehicle are added now, the electric vehicle will become even more interesting for people and could lead to this number rising. This is also a challenge for Audi.
The goal of the research project “ePerformance“ is to design the electric drive train in a completely new way, to systematically optimise all electric components in a vehicle, and to increase efficiency. The ambitious project intentionally pushes the technological limits, and is therefore aimed at higher performance models.
The “ePerformance” project will receive a total of €22 million of the €700 million fund pledged by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE in Kaiserslautern will be part of the project as a contractor for Audi; collaborating on the development of an innovative safety concept for the car of the future.
Many different components must interact optimally and must be perfectly regulated and coordinated in an electric vehicle. Fraunhofer IESE will provide support for the development of the entire safety concept of the car, from hazard and risk analysis through to safety architecture. According to Dr. Peter Liggesmeyer, professor at the University of Kaiserslautern and director of Fraunhofer IESE, the goal is to establish pillars of reference for future generations of electric vehicles: “Here we can actively participate in designing the future of the automobile, both in terms of concrete safety designs and in terms of the methodology employed.”
In addition to Audi, Robert Bosch GmbH and RWTH Aachen are also participating in the “ePerformance” project.
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