A new generation of electric motors that provides higher power density and safety features by a novel winding architecture - EMphiTech

Programme(s):
H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges
H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
H2020-EU.2.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies

Topic(s): EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020 - SME instrument

Call for proposal: H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1

Funding Scheme: SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1

Grant agreement ID: 868144

Project description
Paving the way for better electric vehicles with next-gen electric motors
Despite the rising interest in electric vehicles and e-mobility, their overall sustainability and efficiency remains uncertain. The industry currently faces a number of challenges, such as reducing the weight and cost of components and improving the currently limited autonomy provided by electric vehicles. The EU-funded EMphiTech project will address these issues through a new generation of electric motors that provide higher power density and better safety features. Their novel technology will make it possible to produce electric motors that are smaller in size, safer and more energy-efficient, laying the foundations for better electric vehicles in the future.

Objective
"The interest in electric vehicles and eMobility has seen a sharp increase as governments around the world move to ban petrol and diesel vehicles. The global eMobility market is expected to exceed more than $60 by 2022, but the overall sustainability and efficiency of electric mobility is far from clear. There are several challenges that the industry currently faces, including reducing the weight and cost of components and improving the limitations of autonomy that allow electric mobility to become a reality in the near future.
To solve these issues, IMPROVUM has developed a new generation of electric motors that provides higher power density and safety features by a novel winding architecture. This technology called ""EMphiTech"" allows us to reduce the size of the electric motors, increase their energy use and make them as safe and cheap as possible.
Currently we have a prototype in TRL5, and we have started the development of a fractional closely attached driver which will allow the presented system (motor and driver) to achieve safety redundancy while keeping the system efficiency, concluding the full development of the presented system to produce the first small-scale pilots.
Our business model is based in licensing model generating revenues through royalties (5% on sales). Our customers are electric motor manufacturers.
We are targeting the global electric motor market, which is estimated to reach €173 billion by 2024, focusing only on motor vehicles and aerospace transportation segment, our SAM is €17 M in 2019 increasing to €26 M in 2024. We plan to reach a gross profit of €6.7M in 2023, representing a market share of 1%.
IMPROVUM’s team is led by our CEO Albert Navarro (MSc Industrial Engineering as a background & EMBA), Alejandro Bosco, our CTO (Electronic Engineer) and Florencio Rincón, our CFO (bachelor in business administration and management).
We are applying to the SME Instrument Phase 1 to carry out a Feasibility Study."