VEDECOM
Created in February 2014, VEDECOM is an Institute for Energy Transition (‘ITE’), dedicated to innovative and sustainable mobility, established as part of the French governmental plan, ‘Investment for the future’. As a public-private partnership-based foundation, VEDECOM is based on an unprecedented collaboration between industries of the automotive and aerospace sectors, infrastructure and services operators in the mobility eco-system, academic research institutions and local authorities.
VEDECOM aims at becoming a European innovation leader in the fields of electrified vehicles, automated and connected vehicles and new infrastructure and services for shared mobility and energy. Also, VEDECOM acts as an approved training institution by offering expert training and raising public awareness surrounding innovative mobility solutions.
Stellantis, Renault Group, UVSQ, IFPEN, Université Gustave Eiffel, ESIGELEC, ESTACA are VEDECOM’s founding members.
In ZEV-UP project, VEDECOM will leverage its expertise in social sciences and humanities to analyse the acceptability of frugal electric vehicles and the obstacles to their adoption, while contributing to the definition of trials.