02/05/2010

The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs makes Euro 15 mln available for companies involved in technology for electrical vehicles. A series of companies, from software developer Sycada Mobile Solutions to Engineering form Gear Chain, profit from this initiative.

Sycada leads a consortium with the objective of developing a Battery Health Prediction model along with various driver support tools. The project addresses two important barriers to mass-market introductions of Electrical Vehicles: Range Anxiety of drivers and limited insight to battery health of OEM’s and lease companies. The project foresees the live monitoring of hundreds of e-vehicles in the Netherlands and surrounding countries and is carried our in cooperation with The New Motion, ZEM, and RDM Automotive.

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