Electric Mobility Design: From Powertrain Components to Vehicle Fleet Optimization

NEON is a multidisciplinary research program addressing three interrelated societal challenges: climate action, renewable energy, and smart & sustainable transport. We believe integral research combining societal, economic, and technological expertise is the key to understanding and solving today’s big challenges (www.neonresearch.nl). Our research focuses on making impact. Therefore, we closely collaborate with over twenty industry partners, multiple governmental institutions, and other societal partners. Next to that we are connected to some of the biggest experts in the international research community. The 33 PhD research positions combined in the NEON program are subdivided in the domains: Sustainable energy, Smart & safe mobility, Societal integration, and Integral models. Covering everything from chemistry and electrical engineering to law and psychology. All working together with the same drive towards our mutual goal of accelerating the energy and mobility transition through integral, multidisciplinary research. In this paper, we provide a brief overview of some of the initial results related to electric mobility and powertrain design and discuss future directions.