EVERSAFE (Everyday Safety for Electric Vehicles)

Project Partners

• Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute
• Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
• Volvo Car Corporation
• Royal Institute of Technology
• Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen

Funding

Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development

ERA-NET Transport Electromobility+

Duration

05/2012-12/2014

Topic

The successful integration of electrically driven vehicles into Europe’s future transport system will depend on clear and transparent functional and safety requirements for the vehicles and their subsystems. These requirements are critical for all stakeholders in the transport system: the road user must have confidence that vehicles are safe to operate, the road owner must know, if new vehicle types have new requirements for the road infrastructure, and the automotive industry must have harmonized design standards that guarantee product performance and reliability. While first generation electric vehicles follow the design principles of conventional vehicles it is anticipated that future vehicle designs will make use of highly efficient, lightweight and relatively strong wheel hub motors.

The overall objective of the project is to provide safety requirements for electrically propelled vehicles. EVERSAFE’s main topics are dynamic stability, crash compatibility and battery safety. The project has two main technical work packages: 1) vehicle stability and driver response 2) crash compatibility and battery safety.

Focus areas of the professorship of Cognitive and Engineering Psychology within the project EVERSAFE

• Contribution to problem identification and safety considerations by conducting literature review and Focus Group sessions
• Coordination of the Work Package dedicated to vehicle stability and driver response
• Test scenario design, preparation, and development of field experiments
• Detailed statistical analysis of the field results

Further informationen

• Project homepage EVERSAFE
• Report EVERSAFE