HORIZON-CL5-2026-10-D5-02 - Energy-efficient software-defined EVs (2ZERO)

'Automotive-Lite: inclusive minimobility, liberating the road ahead'.

'Cargo bike width, manoeuvrability, congestion-busting with small van capability, comfort and protection'.

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HORIZON-CL5-2026-10-D5-02 - Energy-efficient software-defined EVs (2ZERO):

Ensuring travel time and responsiveness to user and societal needs (e.g. reduced space needed for the vehicles, reduced consumption of resources, responsive to diverse user needs and abilities), charging infrastructure (vehicle-to-grid integration), cost (e.g. reducing development and integration effort, number, and specs for individual components), and energy demand (e.g. load shifting). 

Improved energy efficiency and increasing sustainability with optimal-sized batteries.

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Helping enable the logistics and passenger Physical Internet via our next generation ZEVs.

Our stated aim is to ‘develop a benchmark, the most space/time/cost/load, in-use and through-life resource efficient, range agnostic, fully enclosed, ZEV platforms from the ground up, not redesign legacy vans, cars, taxis, quadricycles, cargo e-bikes/trikes for electric powertrains’.

Advancing and optimising elements of a platform for enabling a next generation of dense urban, peri-urban, intra-urban vehicles for all road types.

Unique approaches to through-life emissions reduction, energy efficiency, range, affordability, higher residual values for climate and weather resilience.

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Example; In London, despite millions of pounds being spent on cycling infrastructure, cargo bikes make up only around 3% of van sales and van journeys. Road infrastructure and logistics efficiency potential is not being fulfilled due to identified reasons.

Frugal, zero-emission, inclusive, congestion/parking-busting, affordable, failsafe, 24/7/365 use minimobility solution. New generation family of road vehicle types enabled by our unique, patent-granted automotive platform and suspension system.

Most likely product to tempt habitual drivers reluctantly out of overly-wide, polluting and energy inefficient vans, cars, taxis and PHVs, for 65-90% of one and two person vans van, private car and taxi journeys. All the comforts and convenience of cars and vans with additional advantages of affordability and manoeuvrability in dense urban, peri-urban, rural and intra-urban traffic.

Air quality, personal safety and congestion relief benefits for all road users.

We seek detailed discussion with consortia to collaborate on our proposals about the wider issues of efficient road, kerbside, pavement space optimisation in dense urban areas for various vehicle types.

Reducing component numbers and complexity to achieve the highest quality for an affordable price.

Also developing the innovative infrastructures to support this and other vehicle types with our collaborators.

We seek automotive, motorcycle OEMs, their Tier1s and tech companies to help prove route to market, venture clients, RTOs, universities, components and materials suppliers, logistics end users, those with a vision for equitable, inclusive, ZEV mobility, in present and future denser-populated cities with increased internet-purchased deliveries.

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Interesting differences between Tesla and Waymo approaches and journey times; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6tasPBGw6E