Carnot IFPEN Transports Energie
The IFPEN Transports-Energie Carnot Institute is a leading research and innovation player in the field of sustainable mobility. It provides its industrial partners with innovative and competitive products and services in three areas: electric mobility, connected mobility and mobility with a low environmental impact. Within IFP Energies nouvelles, it addresses current mobility challenges: the evolution of usages hinged around digitalization, improved energy efficiency, energy diversification and pollution reduction.
Key figures
| Permanent staff (full-time equivalent) | 279 |
| PhD Students | 31 |
| Global budget | 38,5 M€ |
| Partnership incomes with industry | 15 M€ |
Contact
institut Carnot
IFPEN Transports Energie
1 & 4 avenue de Bois Préau
92852 Rueil Malmaison
Gaetan MONNIER
Director
tel : +33 (0)1 47 52 69 16
gaetan.monnier[a]ifpen.fr
Présentation
Innovate
Innovative solutions addressing market needs:
- Electric powertrain systems for optimal energy efficiency of vehicles
- Web services to reduce the environmental footprint associated with mobility and improve air quality
- IC engine systems incorporating low-carbon fuels in order to reduce the carbon footprint and pollutant emissions
- Mobile or stationary systems for energy production and storage and thermal energy recovery for transport or lowpower facilities
High-performance experimental resources and digital tools resulting in innovations with reduced costs and development times
A proactive industrial protection policy
Collaborate
- Close ties with industry: from start-ups, micro-companies, SMEs and
intermediate-sized companies to major French and international industrial groups - A strong commitment within competitiveness clusters (NextMove, CARA, ASTech, etc.)
- Pooled and targeted action within the context of Carnot “industrial sector” projects: coordinator of Carnauto for the automobile sector and partner of Aircar for the aviation sector
- Synergy with networks of academic partners and R&D laboratories with an international influence
- Active participation in European bodies representing research and industry (EARPA, ERTRAC, EGVIA, POLIS)
Target Markets
- Automobile including trucks and Off-road
- Urban mobility
- Aviation
- Energy
- Waterway, maritime
- Rail
Transfer
Support for industrial sectors, covering a very broad range of technological readiness levels (TRL 2 to 9)
Transfer of our R&D results via:
- joint product development with licensing out operations
- strategic partnerships
- collaborative research contracts
An innovation support policy, aimed particularly at micro-companies, SMEs and intermediate-sized companies
Cutting-edge expertise and skills
- 3D modeling, advanced diagnostics and understanding of combustion
- New IC engines and vehicle integration
- Engine/fuel compatibility and alternative fuels
- Pollutant analysis and after-treatment systems
- New electric motors and electronic control and power systems
- Electricity storage and production systems
- Powertrain and vehicle system simulation
- Control strategies and real-time simulation
- Driving assistance and vehicle fleet management
- Signal processing
- Optimization algorithms, data sciences
