MOTORBRAIN

The overall objective is to develop sustainable drive train technologies and control concepts/platforms for inherently safe electric vehicle powertrains. Target activities include:

1. Development of an intrinsic fail safe and fault tolerant highly efficient propulsion system based on electrical motor, novel power electronic packaging and advanced control systems.
2. Development of fail safe and fault tolerant components and electronic (sub-) systems as a cross functional priority, which applies to all existing car electronics, and to all technologies to be developed in the above mentioned topics.
3. Power and high voltage electronics and smart miniaturized systems for electrical cars. 

The Key facts are: 9 European countries involved, 29 Project partners, 36.6Millions € Budget, Timeline: 01/04/2011 - 31/03/2014

Vision: MotorBrain expects to achieve three advantages, over the state of the art in electric vehicle drivetrains: , Cost reduction by as much as 25%; Increasing operating range by 15 to 20%,  through improved efficiency and weight reduction; and Increased security due to a distributed drive-train and improved integration.