The Sustainable Mobility Institute conducts research on the future of transportation and electric mobility.
A new partnership
Renault, Renault Foundation, and ParisTech have decided to join forces and create the Sustainable Mobility Institute to conduct research into the future of personal transportation.
Institute's goals
The practical aims of the cooperation between Renault engineers and the teacher-researchers and students from ParisTech are to:
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promote research into the design of innovative mobility systems, particularly those based on electric powered vehicles,
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train high-level executives and scientists who, because of their numbers and skills, will be able to meet the needs of industrial firms in the transportation sector and rise to the scientific and technological challenges involved in developing sustainable transportation systems for the long term.
The
Sustainable Mobility Institute is open to new partnerships and will welcome other companies and university institutes from France and abroad that want to take part in its research.
4 areas of focus
Headed by
Jean-Yves Le Coz (Renault Corporate Social Responsibility Division and teacher at Arts et Métiers ParisTech), the
Institute will oversee research and training programs with four areas of focus:
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"Electric Mobility System": to investigate interactions between the mass circulation of electric vehicles and the environment, along with the associated infrastructure requirements
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"Business Model": to determine which economic models will deliver large-scale and sustainable development of electric transportation
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"Global Vision": to study the international conditions for switching from the current system of automobile-based transportation to electric vehicles
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"Battery Technologies": to contribute to further improvements in this fast-advancing field
