Stellantis Builds Global Network of Collaborative Projects to Foster Innovation Worldwide
- Stellantis companions on greater than 160 co-funded initiatives worldwide
- Engaging with one of the most important ecosystems within the automotive world: over 1,000 companions together with public establishments, R&D facilities, universities and different stakeholders
- Roster of collaborative initiatives aligns with Stellantis’ strategic technical domains
- Open-minded method and pioneering spirit boosting innovation inside Stellantis and constructing the roadmap for the longer term of mobility
- Solutions to technical challenges will speed up the transformation right into a sustainable mobility tech firm and assist meet Dare Forward 2030 targets
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 26, 2022 – Stellantis is collaborating with researchers, scientists and engineers all over the world – one of the most important networks of cooperative innovation – to hurry the event and implementation of ground-breaking applied sciences to assist the Company ship the targets of the Dare Forward 2030 strategic plan, together with reaching carbon web zero emissions by 2038.
With greater than three a long time working with public establishments, different R&D facilities, academies and numerous stakeholders, Stellantis is capitalizing on that have by constructing one of the most important and widest collaborative ecosystems on the earth, which at the moment numbers 164 operating initiatives and over 1,000 completely different companions concerned worldwide.
These initiatives can mix personal and public funding, bringing collectively the experience of Stellantis’ in depth technical neighborhood and top-tier establishments with their extremely expert expertise, to hunt options to the most-challenging points in world mobility. Together, Stellantis and its unprecedented collaborations are constructing the widespread roadmap to cutting-edge freedom of mobility.
“Addressing the complexity of tomorrow’s mobility requires innovation. Our open approach, based on a global collaborative ecosystem, covering the most challenging technical topics, allows us to advance knowledge and focus on pre-competitive research that can eventually and positively impact the mobility world,” mentioned Ned Curic, Stellantis Chief Technology Officer. “We are stronger and more creative when we work together, especially when we join forces with some of the world’s best partners and researchers. This pioneering spirit is key to the transformation of Stellantis into a well-recognized tech company and helps us find breakthrough answers to technical challenges, answers that help our customers, our company and our society.”
Stellantis groups from Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain are working in cooperation with different stakeholders on widespread and harmonized targets. Each collaborative, co-funded undertaking can last as long as 4 years.
In addition, different Stellantis groups in Brazil, China, India and the United States are proactively concerned in pre-competitive analysis with trade stakeholders, contributing in-kind assets to deal with technical points.
The roster of world collaborative initiatives is aligned with Stellantis’ strategic technical domains, which embody:
- Autonomous driving and connectivity
- Body, chassis and inside
- Electrification applied sciences and superior propulsion
- Manufacturing
- Materials
Examples of present collaborative initiatives:
Hi-Drive (Autonomous driving and connectivity): Bringing collectively automakers, expertise suppliers, universities and analysis institutes, Hi-Drive is the main European undertaking on automated driving. It is exploring and testing options for automobile connectivity, high-precision automobile positioning, cybersecurity and machine studying to cowl a variety of site visitors environments.
Thermal Comfort Research (Body, chassis and inside): This collaboration goals to develop new techniques and methods for the administration of warmth inside autos whereas minimizing vitality consumption, a key issue for extending the vary of BEVs.
CEVOLVER (Electrification applied sciences and superior propulsion): Project CEVOLVER (Connected Electric Vehicle Optimized for Life, Value, Efficiency and Range) takes a user-centric method for optimizing the event and operation of electrical autos and makes use of innovative applied sciences, elements and techniques. The undertaking leverages alternatives of connectivity to the computational capabilities of large information.
ODIN (Manufacturing): To strengthen European Union manufacturing firms’ confidence in utilizing superior robotics, ODIN brings expertise from the most recent groundbreaking analysis to exhibit that novel robot-based manufacturing techniques are technically possible, environment friendly and sustainable for instant introduction on the store ground.
Forest-Comp (Materials): This analysis undertaking evaluates the use of renewable and non-renewable forest assets to mass produce bio-composites, which might be used for inside trim or acoustic insulation in autos.
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About Stellantis
Stellantis N.V. (NYSE / MTA / Euronext Paris: STLA) is one of the world’s main automakers and a mobility supplier. Its storied and iconic manufacturers embody the fervour of their visionary founders and at the moment’s clients of their progressive services, together with Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Citroën, Dodge, DS Automobiles, Fiat, Jeep®, Lancia, Maserati, Opel, Peugeot, Ram, Vauxhall, Free2move and Leasys. Powered by our variety, we paved the way the world strikes – aspiring to grow to be the best sustainable mobility tech firm, not the most important, whereas creating added worth for all stakeholders in addition to the communities during which it operates. For extra info, go to www.stellantis.com.
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