Project Vision

“Making transport sustainable for all” is one of the key topics addressed in “The European Green Deal”, achieving a climate-neutral Europe by 2050. With the Green Deal, the European Commission aims for transforming the European Union into a modern, resource-efficient, and competitive economy, recently underlined by the report “The future of European competitiveness”. 

HiPower 5.0 is driven by these challenges and ambitions addressed in the Green Deal and Chips Act, to develop new power electronics (PE) solutions to meet Green Deal targets and to foster a resilient and leading edge all-European Value Chain, for tomorrow’s mobility solutions. Consequently, this leads to the following vision:

HiPower 5.0 aims to develop highly integrated eDrive components using leading edge wide bandgap semiconductors and power electronics integration technologies, considering a resource-efficient and reliable design for next generation sustainable mobility solutions in the automotive and maritime domain.

4 Key Objectives

Objective 1

Reduce energy losses and boost eDrive efficiency

Objective 2

Double power density and cut volume by 50% to reduce eDrive waste

Objective 3

Increase in Lifetime and Reliability of Power Electronics 

Objective 4

Twin transition for next-gen WBG eDrivetrains









5 Ambition Topics

Ambition 1

Next Generation GaN Technologies

Ambition 2

Advanced Packaging and PCB Integration Technologies (HV)

Ambition 3

Multi-objective design space exploration and design optimization methodology

Ambition 4

Advanced Ageing Models and Prognostic Concepts

Ambition 5

Power is nothing without Control – Multi-time-scale Control for lifetime extension and fault tolerant Control for Resilience
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