Renault, the Renault Foundation and ParisTech celebrated the fifth anniversary of the Sustainable Mobility Institute on November 27.
04 Dec 2014 | 2712 Views | By Autocar Professional Bureau
Renault, the Renault Foundation and ParisTech celebrated the fifth anniversary of the Sustainable Mobility Institute on November 27. In 2009, the three companies had decided to create a multi-disciplinary platform to co-lead research work on the future of transport and mobility solutions.
The aim of the platform is to ...
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Renault, the Renault Foundation and ParisTech celebrated the fifth anniversary of the Sustainable Mobility Institute on November 27. In 2009, the three companies had decided to create a multi-disciplinary platform to co-lead research work on the future of transport and mobility solutions.
The aim of the platform is to carry out academic analysis and test innovative solutions while ensuring real-life outlets for innovations and their wide-scale rollout potential. The overarching goal is to meet the global challenges currently facing carmakers, including global warming, ecosystem re-organization adapted to electric mobility, growing urbanization and the corresponding traffic congestion problems, and the conditions for success for new mobility solutions.
By harnessing the skills of academia and operational players in mobility, the platform seeks to support and further understanding on the transition phase towards electric mobility and enlighten decision-making.
Collaborative work between Renault engineers and ParisTech professor/researchers and students was initiated primarily to:
Over the years, the Sustainable Mobility Institute has opened up to other French and international academic and industrial partners seeking to contribute to the work. The Sustainable Mobility Institute has over the last five years coordinated research programs and developed training in four main areas, involving 10 ParisTech research laboratories and seven schools:
In 2010 the Sustainable Mobility Institute created a ‘Mobility and Electric Vehicles’ Masters in which young engineers are trained on the design, production and recycling of electric vehicle. Some 65 students from 16 countries with grants from the Renault Foundation have already benefitted from the program.
Thierry Bolloré, Member of the Executive Committee, executive vice-president, Chief Competitive Officer of the Renault Group, said: “The Sustainable Mobility Institute upholds a global approach conducive to preparing for technological disruptions, changes in use and the economic impact of those changes. The platform enables us to go beyond the objects in themselves to take better account of geopolitical influences and the speed with which new mobilities are accepted in different markets. It brings us a firmer grasp of all the complexity of this major transition, which will impact everyday life in urban and rural environments.”
Photograph (L-R:: From left to right: Thierry Bolloré, Executive Vice President, Chief Competitive Officer, Renault Group ; Gaspar Gascon-Abellan, Executive Vice-President, Engineering, Renault group; Jean-Phillippe Vanot, President of ParisTech; Claire Martin, Vice President Corporate Social Responsibility and Managing Director Renault Foundation; Bruno Ancelin, Director Products and Programs, Renault Group; Romain Beaume, Director of Institut de la mobilité durable; Alain Bamberger, Research Delegate, ParisTech