Electric vehicles and new car-sharing services are the future of mobility in Europe. They have the potential to dramatically improve the quality of life of citizens. However, there is uncertainty about the advent of electric mobility and car-sharing is still under-diffused compared to its potential. CarE-Service is a project funded by the European Commission […]

LOOPS#7 by Veltha: A discussion with CarE-Service and Si-Drive!   CarE-Service has this opportunity to join the 7th LOOPs event organized by Veltha on 19th of May from 11:30 to 12:30 at ECT. LOOPS will be the opportunity to show what cutting-edge research has been produced, and which changes it can bring to our communities. […]

March 1st to 3rd, 6th General Assembly of CarE-Service organized virtually   Through three days of the General Assembly in March 2021, CarE-Service Team had this opportunity to organize the final General Assembly meeting of the project to set the ultimate targets and goals for the remaining months till November 2021. Like the last GA […]

2021 means we have entered the last year of our project and we are looking forward to presenting you with the promising results we’re obtaining up to this point. In this edition, you’ll find our proposal for batteries re-design in order to overcome the present criticalities that prevent the re-using and recycling of batteries. We […]

  In the second CarE-Service newsletter besides discussing some project progress on technical topics, we also share our position on battery legislation. Reading this newsletter, you will also have the opportunity of learning more about the new mobility services that are being developed in the framework of CarE-Service. As our project is market-oriented, new potential […]

Metal reforming process and technology is a source of energy saving   Metal components of Vehicles’ body at the EoL are good sources of reforming and remanufacturing for being used within the same industry by OEM or entering into other applications. Metal reforming is a source of energy saving compared to recycling and melting down […]

  The first CarE-Service newsletter issue has complied with all the massive collaboration and communication of the team to be widely accessible and diffuse through social media. Within this issue, the main objectives were to carefully present the various topics and activities that have been investigated since the beginning of the project in a detailed […]

  The increasing number of electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles (E&HEVs) supposes that some strategic metals, increase their consumption. Nowadays, the recovery of rare earths is of particular interest due to their use in smart technologies and scarce availability of their resources (i.e., here in the European Union); thus, the recycling of these metals […]

  The objective of the visit was to witness the dismantling of selected battery pack models in order to extract key messages and recommendations in view of reusing and repurposing of EV battery packs. These findings support WP3 (Costumer-driven products re-design for the circular economy) of the CarE-Service project and aim at identifying which parameters […]

  The first version of the Position Paper for Standardization and Legislation for End of Life batteries has been published. This Position Paper includes the results of the activities carried out in the Task 8.4 of CarE-Service project, consisting on the analysis of the limitations and barriers posed by the existing standardization and regulatory framework […]