What a week – looking back at the RTR Conference 2026!

It was quite the week for our E-VOLVE Cluster, as many of our projects were present at the RTR Conference in Brussels. The conference brought together road transport researchers and policy makers to present, discover and discuss the latest outcomes of their research.

We were pleased not only with the opportunity to show our research and results, but especially with the exchange that happened afterwards. It was clear that there is a strong interest in next-generation motor technologies and especially collaboration and interaction with other partners and projects.

We want to give you now an overview of all the E-VOLVE Cluster member project presentations. Don’t miss out to check them all out!

Day 1 started with the 2Zero parallel session on “Electric motor technologies for next generation EVs”. This section featured the following presentations each one introducing their projects and results (so far).

*The moderators and presenters from left to right: Gordon Witham, Joao Miranda, Fernando Garramiola, Dr. Jenni Pippuri-Mäkeläinen and Martin Weinzerl*

Here you can check out all the presentations:

EM-TECH

HEFT

VOLTCAR

7 – EM-TECH

8 – HEFT

9 – VOLTCAR

Martin Weinzerl, AVL List GmbH

Fernando Garramiola, Mondragon University

Dr. Jenni Pippuri-Mäkeläinen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd

Watch the entire session here:

Following this session was another 2Zero block on “Power electronics for electric vehilces” featuring presentations about the following projects, members to the E-VOLVE Cluster and their research.

*The moderators and presenters from left to right: Joao Miranda, Tobias Lange, Àlber Filbà Martínez, Prof. Wilmar Martinez, Piotr Bielaczyc, Medina Ćustić and Dr. Eric Armengaud*

Check out every presentation here!

SCAPE

PowerDrive

RHODaS

18 – SCAPE

19 – PowerDrive

20 – RHODAS

Àlber Filbà Martínez, IREC

Prof. Wilmar Martinez, KU Leuven

Piotr Bielaczyc, BOSMAL Automotive R&D Institute Ltd

HiPE

HighScape

21 – HiPE

22 – HighScape

Medina Ćustić, Virtual Vehicle Research GmbH

Dr. Eric Armengaud, Armengaud Innovate GmbH

You can watch the full presentation in this video.

The late afternoon concluded with three more presentations in the 2Zero parallel session “User centric energy optimised EV”.

*The moderators and presenters from left to right: Guido Sacchetto, Ian Faye, Thomas Bäuml, Walter Lukesch and Alexander Kospach*

Here are all the presentations:

SmartCorners

MINDED

EFFEREST

29 – SmartCorners

30 – MINDED

31 – EFFEREST

Walter Lukesch, AVL DiTEST

Thomas Bäuml, Austrian Institute of Technology

Alexander Kospach, Virtual Vehicle Research GmbH

Watch all presentations in this video!

In addition to all these informative presentations and the resulting fruitful discussions, all the projects were represented at the E-VOLVE Cluster booth. Here are some impressions from our booth an the conference.

Lastly, we are very grateful for the interesting discussions, the opportunity to exchange face-to-face and the connections we made regarding future collaborations. Also, we wanted to thank 2Zero and all co-organizers for the great environment, to all the session moderators, as well as the RTR Conference for creating this vivid place for exchange. We will be back next year!

The research leading to these results have received funding from European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme H2020 and Horizon Europe.

Special credit is to be given to the project ACHILES (824311) under the lead of VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL for the initial setup and continuous management of the E-VOLVE Cluster between 2018 and 2022. Thanks a lot for the efforts and initiative that is highly appreciated.

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 the funding authority can be held responsible for them.