About
Innovative e-motor technologies covering e-axles and e-corners vehicle architectures for high-efficient and sustainable e-mobility.
Project Summary
As electric machine technology emerges, new technologies can provide innovative solutions for the electric car sector. The EU-funded EM-TECH project has developed innovative electric machine technology solutions for automotive traction. The project focused on passenger car and van applications to provide competitive costs and significant reduction of motor energy loss during vehicle operation, and to decrease the rare earth content, including implementing magnet recycling solutions.
The solutions include innovative direct and active cooling designs, virtual sensing functionalities, enhanced machine control, electric gearing and digital twin-based optimisation. They feature embedded systematic consideration of life cycle analysis and life cycle costing aspects right from the early design stages.
The project consortium was composed by 10 European organizations and coordinated by AVL List GmbH, Austria.
Funded by the European Union under grant agreement No. 101096083. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA). Neither the European Union nor CINEA can be held responsible for them.
Our Role and Achievements
Within EM-TECH, we were supporting the innovation management and leading the work package on communication, dissemination and exploitation.
EXAMPLES OF OUR WORK
ENGAGEMENT
Engagement with stakeholders is at the core of communication, dissemination and exploitation. Accordingly, it was our outmost goal to support these activities; either by supporting project partners having the connections available or creating activities by ourselves. An example to engage with young scientists was the European Researchers Night in 2024, where our team was building mini e-motors that left participants stunning. We further had the chance to rebuild this experiments as part of the “Forscher:innen Tag” at the primary school in Tobelbad.
DELIVERABLES
Supporting the coordinator and fulfilling our quality requirements in terms of public deliverables, we were managing the deliverable review process up until the point of handing over the document to the coordinator for submission. All publicly available deliverables are provided on the project website. The deliverables we were leading and are available publicly:
NEWSLETTER
Co-managing the E-VOLVE Cluster, our team has made an effort to create a strong connection between the E-VOLVE Cluster communication and the EM-TECH communication. Consequently, EM-TECH has continuously been included in the E-VOLVE Cluster Newsletters.
ONE-PAGER
As part of the exploitation strategy, together with the project partners we produced One Pagers to present the Key Exploitable Results of the project:
- Innovative in-wheel motor design with integrated direct cooling and mechanical e-gear
- High power density axial flux motor prototype
- High power density axial flux on-board motor and drive series
- Virtual sensing for electric motor and inverter control
- Technology for using recycled permanent magnets
- Electric drive controllers
- Digital twinning framework for electric drive design
- Electric drive LCA & LCC methodology for engineering services
- Distributed XIL testing methodology
INTERVIEWS
We conducted interviews with our project partners. These conversations help to gain valuable insights and to strengthen collaboration.
WEBINAR
PUBLICATIONS
- Fisita 2023 – Wang, B., Montanaro, U., Sorniotti, A., Tavernini, D., et al. (2023, September 12). Innovative e-Machine and Power Electronics Solutions for e-Axle and e-Corner Vehicle Powertrains. Proceedings of the FISITA 2023 World Congress, Barcelona.
- TRA2024 – Weinzerl, M., Szakallas, A., Ivanov, V., Beliautsou, V., et al. (2025, May 3). Innovative E-Motor Technologies for E-Axles and E-Corners Vehicle Architectures Enabling Highly Efficient and Sustainable E-Mobility. Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility. Transport Research Arena (TRA) 2024 (TRA2024), Dublin.
- TRA2024 – Armengaud, E., Armengaud, I., Weinzerl, M., Kniewallner, J., et al. (2025, May 3). E-VOLVE Cluster: Increasing Innovation Efficiency to Support the Transition Toward Sustainable e-mobility. Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility. Transport Research Arena (TRA) 2024 (TRA 2024), Dublin.
- SAE WCX 2025 – Armengaud, E., Ratz, F., Muñiz, Á., Poza, J., et al.. (2025). European Initiatives Addressing High Efficiency and Low-Cost Electric Motors for Circularity and Low use of Rare Resources. SAE Int. J. Adv. & Curr. Prac. in Mobility 7(6):2781-2794.
- EVS38 (Paper) – Ratz, F., Armengaud, E., Heydrich, M., Avarello, L., et al. (2025, June 17). Electrification of powertrain and chassis components as opportunity for efficient and user-centric road transportation – Insights of the R&D projects HighScape, EM-TECH, and SmartCorners. The 38th International Electric Vehicle Symposium & Exhibition (EVS38), Gothenburg.
- EVS38 (Poster) – Ratz, F., Armengaud, E., Heydrich, M., Avarello, L., et al. (2025, June 17). Electrification of powertrain and chassis components as opportunity for efficient and user-centric road transportation – Insights of the R&D projects HighScape, EM-TECH, and SmartCorners. The 38th International Electric Vehicle Symposium & Exhibition (EVS38), Gothenburg.
