Markets,technologies & trends
Markets
Among the markets addressed by the cluster and its members, we can mention in particular
Mobility solutions
- One of the leading mobility hubs in Europe: more than 8 million trips per day
- Representation of all types of territories: from metropolises to sparsely populated rural areas
- The first territory to deploy new forms of mobility: car-sharing, car-pooling, mobility services, ticketing, shared mobility, mobility on demand, new mobiles
- Local authorities that are ahead of the game in experimenting with new forms of mobility: Métropole Rouen Normandie, Versailles Grand Parc, Le Havre Métropole, City of Paris...
Automotive industry
- 30+ global carmakers and equipment manufacturers
- World-class R&D centers: Renault, Stellantis, Valeo...
- Leading production sites in industrial excellence: Forvia, Renault, Stellantis...
- 70% of French R&D in the cluster's territories
- 500,000 vehicles produced in the territory
- 25% of the 400,000 jobs in the French upstream automotive industry in over 1,000 companies
Public Transports
- World-class operators: Transdev, Vinci, SANEF...
- A territory for experimenting with autonomous public transport vehicles
Soft mobility
Trends
Recognized as a privileged place where fruitful cooperations are initiated, NextMove is a key reference on technologies and uses related to innovative and responsible mobility, in constant connection with the priorities of the sector and the activities of our members.
Mobility with low environmental footprint
Industrial & operational excellence
New services & mobility solutions
Safe, connected & autonomous mobility
Technologies
The strong coupling between technologies and markets has been at the heart of NextMove's strategy since its creation. These five perfectly complementary technological and industrial themes are an illustration of this. In a context of strong technological change, they respond to a central challenge: the decarbonation of mobility. And they allow us to address the technological markets and major trends in mobility with more than a hundred recognized experts from all types of companies and structures.
Powertrains & Energy Management
Develop and optimize affordable powertrains with low CO2 and pollutant emissions
Low environmental impact powertrains
- Electric machines
- Fuel cells (PAC)
- Thermal engine technologies using renewable energy carriers: hydrogen, e-fuels, bio-fuels, biogas, etc.
- Power electronics
- Architecture and systems: hybridization, energy management, retrofit, etc.
Energy storage systems
- Batteries: electrochemistry, pack, BMS, thermal...
- Supercapacitors
- Hydrogen tanks: liquid or solid
- Phase change materials, flywheels...
Infrastructure & network
- Recharging or refueling infrastructures
- Smart Grid, including vehicle or second life batteries in their operation
Tools, methods & new business models
- Tools and methodologies for modeling, design, optimization and tuning: HIL, LCA...
- Dependability with a New business models system approach
Materials, Comfort & Environments
Reduce the energy requirements and environmental impact of vehicles by acting on materials and their associated processes while improving reliability and on-board comfort and health interactions
Lightening & associated processes
- Metallic materials, composites, plastics, glass
- 3D printing
- Assemblies
- Architecture
Environment & associated processes
- Recycled materials
- Biomaterials
- Substitution of strategic materials
- Recycling
- Circular economy
Onboard wellness
- Electro Magnetic Compatibility
- Acoustics, vibratory behavior
- Cabin air quality
- Lighting, plastronics
- Functionalized materials
Conception
- Numerical tools: multi-physics, materials, processes...
- System approach, architectures, cyber-physical systems (CPS)...
- Reliability, dynamic behavior, Electro Magnetic Compatibility
- Ecodesign, life cycle analysis (LCA)
Smart & Safe Mobility Solutions
Promote and support the design, development and integration of intelligent and sustainable mobility solutions for people and goods in urban and rural areas, reduce road insecurity for all types of users in the city and on the road
Mobility: value-added services
- Mobility in an integrated multimodal chain: intermodality, multimodality, services around electromobility and automated road mobility, new vehicle uses (shared, mutualized and optimized vehicles), soft mobility, alternative mobilities, active mobilities, urban logistics...
- Economic and social dimensions: legal and regulatory environment, value creation, social and solidarity economy, collaborative economy, measurement/evaluation/impact on the environment and society
People: mobiles for everyone
- Human-Machine Interfaces, ergonomics, readability of on-board functions and services
- Acceptability of new mobility solutions including automated and connected road mobility
- Technologies and services for all and for all uses (PMR, mobility in low density areas)
Technology: smarter mobiles
- The vehicle and data: the vehicle as a multiform sensor (connectivity, IoT, 5G), the vehicle platform (data exchange, sharing and management), data protection and cybersecurity
- Automated and connected road mobility
- Artificial Intelligence for mobility - Intelligent Transport Systems Services : ICT, multimodal information, payment, reservation
- Exploration of new technologies for mobility: blockchain, metavers...
Interactions in urban, peri-urban and rural ecosystems
- Infrastructures/vehicle/user
- New uses, with all types of users, including the safety of active and soft mobility: motorized two-wheelers, cyclists, EDP, pedestrians, seniors, vulnerable users...
- Inter-vehicle compatibility
- Traffic flow management
Understanding of the respective roles in the Human-Systems interaction
- Learning, training, variability of human capabilities
- Vehicle-infrastructure-user-ecosystems communication
- Standardization, simplification
Automated Road Mobility
- Sensors, sensor fusion, scenario-based decision algorithms
- Reliability, operational safety
- Specifications including the human factor from the start
Cooperation
Cooperation
Data & data processing
- Data collection & decision support
- Data processing
- Cybersecurity
Industrial & operational excellence
Promoting and supporting the development of solutions for decarbonizing production sites and improving industrial performance that respect people and the environment
Supporting transitions
- Designing and developing solutions for modernizing the production tool: integrating lean and 4.0 concepts into the means of production - Industrializing circular economy concepts
- Promote frugal innovations (product/process breakthroughs)
- Supporting company projects for relocation and reindustrialization
- Supporting projects for the industrialization of future products (low-carbon cars and soft mobility)
Economic industrial performance
- Continuing to support the move towards Operational Excellence and 4.0: Lean Manufacturing, Lean Office, digital transformation and use of industrial data, and additive manufacturing, energy sobriety and decarbonization...
- Design for manufacturing/product-process coupling
- Human-Machine Interfaces, ergonomics
- Acceptability of new solutions
- Logistics and supply
Strengthen & promote the industrial sector
- Facilitating inter-company, large group/SME and inter-sector relations
- Develop local business ecosystems
- Promote local manufacturing vs. purchasing policies of large groups
- Make the future of industry visible
- Promote industrial innovation
- Develop the attractiveness of trades
Manage the evolution of skills
- Acquire the industrial skills to support the evolution of the industry: batteries, hydrogen, electric powertrain, power electronics, etc.
- Develop a generational approach
- Have an efficient management model, leadership development
- Mobility of skills