Online launch

Battery Electric Vehicle Sustainability Impact Assessment Model

21 April 2022

14:00 – 15:00 CET

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Having something radically more sustainable needs imagination. The EU Horizon 2020 funded project ALMA is creating the future of mobility through innovative, and sustainable hybrid material solutions. The final aim is to decrease the environmental impacts of electric vehicles by reducing the weight of the structure, saving materials and energy thereby reducing CO2 emissions.

More specifically, the project aims to develop a novel, light weight electric vehicle structure (at TRL 8) for a battery electric vehicle that has lower environmental impacts compared to reference design. ALMA project applies a two-level approach: 1) holistic eco-design of the novel vehicle structure and 2) adoption of circular economy principles across the entire life cycle.

In the ALMA project, TNO developed a web-based sustainability assessment tool named BEVSIM, Battery Electric Vehicle Sustainability Impact Assessment Model. This model evaluates the environmental, circularity, and economic impacts of the materials, sub-systems, and parts of battery electric vehicle (BEV) and Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicle across the entire cradle-to-grave life cycle. BEVSIM can perform the following types of impact assessments: life cycle hotspot analysis, environmental impact assessment, circularity assessment and economic impacts analysis (life cycle costing).

BEVSIM allows the user to measure and compare impacts resulting from design alternatives, lightweight designs, material or sub-system choice, recycling technologies, end-of-life scenarios, and future scenarios resulting from changes in grid mixes.

The presentation will introduce the ALMA project, its objectives, and share insights on the TNO BEVSIM tool.

THE AGENDA

14:00 – 14:05	Introduction by Raquel Ledo Bañobre
14:05 – 14:45	TNO BEVSIM tool by Rajesh Mehta
14:45 – 15:00	Questions & Answers with the audience

14:00 – 14:05 Introduction
14:05 – 14:45 TNO BEVSIM tool by Rajesh Mehta
14:45 – 15:00 Questions & Answers with the audience

SPEAKER

Rajesh Mehta

Senior Consultant, TNO, The Netherlands

Rajesh Mehta is a technology and management professional with 16 years of diversified experience in the global petrochemical industry. He has deep expertise in corporate sustainability, strategy, business, and financial modelling. As a senior consultant at TNO, Rajesh advises industry and policymakers on decarbonization and circular economy strategies. Rajesh has multifaceted program management experience ranging from technology development & assessment to value chain and business model analysis. At TNO, Rajesh works closely with technology teams, industry associations, and consortium partners to evaluate the commercial and sustainability potential of technologies in the development cycle. Rajesh has co-authored 15 publications/reports and delivered 20 conference presentations

Raquel Ledo Bañobre

Head of the Materials Innovation, CTAG, Spain

Telecommunication Engineer by the University of Vigo, with a Postgraduate Master Degree in Management of Automotive Enterprises and a Degree of Research Proficiency and Advanced Studies. She has more than 15 years experience in the automotive sector (both in automotive suppliers and in OEMs) and she is currently Head of the Materials Innovation area in CTAG. She was directly involved in more than 15 EU projects, coordinating 3 of them. From 2015, Raquel collaborates with the European Commission in a regular basis as Expert evaluator in several H2020 and Horizon Europe programmes

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ALMA Project

ALMA will develop a novel battery electric vehicle (BEV) structure for a passenger car with 45% weight reduction potential compared to current baseline at affordable costs.

Having something radically more sustainable needs imagination and ALMA is creating the future of mobility through innovative, and sustainable hybrid material solutions. ALMA will decrease the environmental impacts of electric vehicles by reducing the weight of the structure, saving materials and energy thereby reducing CO2 emissions.

Reduce, re-use, recycle. ALMA is transforming the automotive sector from a linear to circular model considering recyclability early in the design phase and concocting creative end-of-life solutions at an affordable cost.

The ALMA Project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No: 101006675  

Find out more about the ALMA project