FC and HEV information/news

International Conference ´Automotive Power Electronics (APE)´, June 2006 in Paris
The International Conference AUTOMOTIVE POWER ELECTRONICS APE held in Paris (France) on 21-22 June 2006. has been organised by SIA in collaboration with MIT, INRETS, ECPE.
The next APE Conference is planned for end of 2007/beginning of 2008. 		Download:
Download pdfAPE_press_release.pdf
European Project (IP) HySYS
HySYS - Fuel Cell Vehicle System Components
The objective of the project is the research on of low-cost components for fuel cell (FC-) systems and electric drive systems which can be used in future hybridised FC-vehicles (medium term objective) and ICE vehicles. 		Download:
Download pdfHySYS_Pres_EUCAR_2006_11_23.pdf

Project web site: www.hysys.de
European Project (IP) HyTRAN
HyTRAN - Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies for Road Transport
The overall objectives of HyTRAN are to develop commercially viable fuel cell technologies for motor vehicle applications, including the development of advanced components and systems, and their integration into two innovative power sources. 		Download:
Download pdfHyTran_Pres_2005_12_08.pdf

Project web site: www.hytran.org
European Project HI-CEPS
HICEPS - Highly Integrated Combustion Electric Propulsion System
Research and development of optimised advanced hybrid vehicle concepts, for mass producible vehicles available on the European market from the beginning of the next decade, based on innovative and cost competitive highly integrated advanced thermal-electric hybrid powertrain architectures. 		Download:
Download pdfHICEPS_AVL_2006_11_10.pdf
European Project (IP) STORHY
STORHY - Hydrogen Storage System for Automotive Applications
R&D covering the whole spectrum of hydrogen storage technologies, including compressed gas, cryogenic liquid and solid materials, with a focus on automotive applications, an issue of utmost importance for the future of the European industry as a whole. 		Website:
www.storhy.net
European Project (STREP) POMEROL
POMEROL - Power Oriented Low Cost and Safe Materials for Li-Ion Batteries
Develop high power, low-cost and intrinsically safe lithium-ion batteries by a breakthrough in materials. 		Website:
Download pdfPomerol_Abstract.pdf
European Project (STREP) HyHEELS
HyHEELS - Hybrid High Energy Electrical Storage
HyHEELS provides an UltraCap energy storage system for the use in hybrid- and fuel cell vehicles, which satisfies all properties necessary to make an integrative component. The development work comprises the optimisation of the electric properties of the basic cap, its combination into scalable modules with integrated power balancing, power prediction and the communication interface with the drivetrain. 		Project web site: www.vito.be/hyheels