Clear Movement reaches midway level in EU GIANTS challenge

Clear Movement has introduced progress because the EU Horizon Europe GIANTS (Inexperienced Clever Inexpensive New Transport Options) challenge reaches its midway level. The initiative, operating from January 2024 to June 2027, brings collectively 24 companions throughout Europe, Asia and Africa to design a modular, scalable zero-emission L-type car platform for city and suburban mobility.

The GIANTS platform is totally specified and presently present process analysis, with exercise specializing in constructing and testing demonstration autos at Residing Labs in Gothenburg, Brugge, Kisumu, Delhi and Manila. These websites will validate efficiency, affordability and sustainability throughout completely different working situations. Clear Movement is leveraging its experience in light-weight electrical car design by way of its EVIG platform, working with companions together with Renault, Toyota and Valeo.

“The GIANTS platform is now totally specified and presently present process analysis,” William Collings, Chief Know-how Officer at Clear Movement, mentioned in a press release. “This stage is a pivotal transition from planning to bodily testing. Along with companions like Valeo, we’re validating completely different configurations on custom-built take a look at benches. The subsequent step is getting ready supplies and meeting for the demonstration autos. It’s extremely rewarding to see how collaboration and frugal innovation can speed up the worldwide shift to wash mobility.”

The challenge goals to shut the hole between small, single-purpose gentle autos and what Clear Movement describes as overengineered transport options, growing an reasonably priced and totally adaptable platform able to serving numerous markets from European metropolis logistics to emerging-market passenger transport. The corporate states it’s adapting the EVIG platform for GIANTS, bringing confirmed know-how and design philosophy to the collaborative analysis effort.

Clear Movement’s contribution is supported by its mission to ship energy-efficient, low-resource city mobility options. The corporate states the GIANTS challenge embodies its method to scalable, round and sustainable transport innovation designed to serve each superior and growing city environments. The second half of the challenge will give attention to demonstrating the platform’s functionality to satisfy environmental and financial calls for throughout completely different international markets.

SOURCE: Clear Movement