From Life Cycle Assessment to eco-design: turning environmental evidence into better design choices How can environmental performance become part of the design process for next-generation EV power electronics? SCAPE has now completed the Life Cycle Assessment of its inverter, moving from an initial environmental assessment towards a detailed analysis capable of supporting concrete [...]
Testing, learning, improving: SCAPE converter validation moves towards motor and battery environments The purpose of validation is not simply to produce a final “pass” result. In a research prototype, the most valuable tests are often those that reveal interactions that were not fully visible in simulation or at lower power. SCAPE has now [...]
Integration in progress: SCAPE’s IIC and BIC prototypes move from building blocks to complete hardware SCAPE’s architecture is moving into the integration stage where switching cells, converter legs, cooling hardware, control electronics and mechanical structures must work as one system. WP6, led by IREC, is responsible for turning the project’s building blocks into [...]
Digital twins for more robust converter health monitoring How can an electric-vehicle power converter detect that one of its power switches is beginning to age before the degradation becomes a failure? SCAPE’s WP5 is exploring an answer that combines a physics-based digital twin with machine learning. The starting point is the behaviour of [...]
From embedded SiC devices to tested hardware: SCAPE advances switching-cell manufacturing and cooling The chip-embedded high-voltage switching cell is one of SCAPE’s most distinctive hardware developments. By integrating SiC power devices directly into the PCB structure, the project aims to build compact and modular converter building blocks with improved electrical and thermal integration. [...]
SCAPE publishes its modular and scalable design guidelines SCAPE’s modular and scalable power-conversion architecture has reached an important milestone with the submission its Guidelines for the design of modular and scalable EV powertrain architectures. The deliverable brings together the design logic developed during the project and organises it around three hierarchical levels. At [...]
Closing the loop: SCAPE requirements move towards final validation A successful technology project is not only about developing innovative components. It is also about making sure that the components, subsystems and tests developed over several years still respond to the needs and requirements that originally shaped the system. In SCAPE, this overseeing role [...]
A busy SCAPE week in Modena: from power-electronics teaching to final-phase project decisions From 8 to 12 June 2026, Modena became a meeting point for advanced electric-mobility research during the 4th EMERGE Summer School on Electrical Machines and Drives for Green Transportation Systems. Organised by the Motor Valley University of Emilia Romagna (MUNER) [...]
SCAPE–RhoDAS Joint Workshop on Shared European Challenges in E-Mobility Sister projects exchange perspectives for a more intelligent and resilient European e-mobility ecosystem Two Horizon Europe projects — SCAPE and RHODaS — met in Barcelona (and online) for a Joint Workshop on Shared European Challenges in E-Mobility. With SCAPE approaching its final stretch and [...]
New Publication on Advanced Control Strategies for SCAPE’s Battery Interfacing Converter As part of the development of advanced control strategies for the Battery Interfacing Converter (BIC), the paper Generalized Multiport, Multilevel NPC Dual-Active-Bridge Converter for EV Auxiliary Power Modules—authored by Oriol Esquius Mas, Àlber Filbà Martínez, Joan Nicolás Apruzzese, and Sergio Busquets Monge—has [...]
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