Interesting article about FABRIC @ FutureEnergy online magazine
A very interesting article about FABRIC was published in the September edition of the FuturEnergy online magazine, in parallel with the consortium's effort to reveal the basic project outcome, the feasibility analysis of on-road charging solutions for EVs. The article under the title: DYNAMIC CHARGING E-CORRIDORS, A POSSIBLE, BUT NOT GUARANTEED, SOLUTION is available at page 93 of the magazine: http://www.futurenergyweb.es/digital-versions/2017-09/files/assets/common/downloads/FuturEnergy%20Septiembre17.pdf
Enjoy reading!
Enjoy reading!
FABRIC project activities were successfully presented by Guy Frémont from Sanef, during a Pavement management workshop, that was organised by Albertis, on May 22-24, 2017 at the company’s headquarters, in Barcelona, Spain. The workshop was attended by 54 experts working mostly at the road engineering, construction and maintenance sectors and coming from both from Europe (i.e. France, Italy and Spain) and abroad (i.e. Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Puerto Rico). Mr. Frémont’s speech focused on the activities of the FABRIC project towards the deployment of Dynamic electric charging on motorways. The participants showed high interest on the subject of the presentation as they were not familiar with the electric charging system and technologies. During the discussion that followed, participants’ questions concerned mostly the cost for the construction of the electric charging system and who is expected to cover these costs, the performance of the energy transfer, etc.
The presentation is available here as a pdf.
The presentation is available here as a pdf.
A related to FABRIC presentation was performed by Joram Langbroek from KTH during the 1st Electric Road Systems Conference that took place in Sandviken (SE), on 14-15 June 2017. During his speech Mr. Langbroek presented the basic facts and outcomes of the joint KTH and TNO study which focuses on the traffic operational effects of large-scale development of electric roads. The study was conducted in the framework of the FABRIC project and specifically as part of the activities within Sub-project 5: Assessment.The main objectives of this study were to investigate the:
1. physical operations of road way systems:
a. Under a staged deployment of on-road charging infrastructure;
b. And partial market penetration of compatibly-equipped vehicles into the general fleet;
2. traffic operational as well as emission effects.
A project demonstration was held in conjunction with Task 26 wireless charging Standardization Working Group during 24-26/4/17 in Satory, France. The event aimed at the demonstration of the FABRIC French test site to several key stakeholders and the partners.
During the first day of the demonstrations, after initial introductory speeches by the Project Coordinator and the Project Officer, VEDECOM presented the system development and functionality and then a demo of the system took place, where the vehicles and components were showcased.
On the morning of the second day, a very successful demonstration of the VEDECOM site system took place, attended by the Project officer, external experts, and project members.
The demonstration included, among others, charging at various speeds, charging of two vehicles at the same time and extreme misalignment to show the automatic disengagement of the charging system when misalignment becomes greater than 20cm.
An one-day project meeting was also held on the 24th, focusing on the work conducted so far within Sub-projects 4 “integration, infrastructure & testing” and 5 “system perspective of feasibility and impact of other non technical aspects”.
On the 28th of March 2017 the inauguration of VEDECOM’s e-road took place. The inauguration was accompanied by several demonstrations of dynamic wireless charging of the electric Vehicle used for the testing of the developed technologies, a Renault Kangoo. On site was also the test vehicle used by QUALCOMM, a diesel Kangoo featuring an electric load, which was being re-charged by the e-road. The demonstrations ended with a big success and It can be considered that the test site is now fully integrated and operational.
FABRIC’s 7th Plenary meeting was held in Torino, Italy, on 1 & 2 December 2016. During the meeting, the consortium discussed the latest achievements across all WP’s of the project.
Moreover, a visit to the Italian test site was made where ongoing technical advancements were presented. In parallel a workshop focusing on the integration of load balancing in the charging ecosystem, took place within POLITO labs.
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"Supply chain factors"
Andrew Winder, ERTICO –ITS Europe, Belgium │ Presentation (PDF)
Angelos Amditis, ICCS, Greece│ Presentation (PDF)
“SP5 Assessment”
Sebastiaan Meijer/Feng Chen, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden │ Presentation (PDF)
"Workshop objectives and methodology"
Andrew Winder, ERTICO –ITS Europe, Belgium │ Presentation (PDF)
"E-Corridors Demand and Assumptions"
Juan de Blas Pombo, Qi Energy Assessment, Spain │ Presentation (PDF)
"D 5.3.4 Detailed LCA/LCC assessment of environment and cost impact of roads. QiE Contribution: LCC Part"
Juan de Blas Pombo, Qi Energy Assessment, Spain │ Presentation (PDF)
"System Level LCA"
Benedetta Marmiroli, Politechnico di Torino, Italy│ Presentation (PDF)
"SWOT analysis"
Evangelia Portouli/Panagiotis Lytrivis, ICCS, Greece │ Presentation (PDF)
"Supply chain factors"
Andrew Winder, ERTICO –ITS Europe, Belgium │ Presentation (PDF)