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The video presents the E4TC and its work on the new Aachen electric car e.GO Life.
Campus Melaten is a university expansion area of the federal state of North-Rhine Westphalia, where student accommodation is generally not permitted. Due to the acute shortage of student housing, the state and the City of Aachen decided to allow a temporary exception and permit student housing on campus for a maximum of seven years. Economic concerns with regards to the short time period limited the options to existing, mobile solutions. A decision was made in favor of module structures that had previously been in use in the Netherlands. These will now be completely refurbished and adapted to the requirements of a state-of-the-art residential project.
Each residential module consists of two three-storied building sections, interconnected by arcades and bridges. The resulting courtyard acts as a communicative intermediate zone. Seating cubes on the ground floor and some bridges for use as a kind of communal balcony offer students space for interaction and meet-ups.
Each housing unit offers a private bathroom and kitchenette. The units vary in size between 26 and 29 square meters. The units are available for rent starting at EUR 350.00 per calendar month plus ancillary costs. The accommodation units are marketed via Student Campus Aachen (www.studentencampus-aachen.de). The residential complex additionally offers 285 bicycle stands as well as over 140 parking spaces.
Aachen, 23 June 2016 – With a foundation stone ceremony in front of numerous guests, Frauenrath Group today marked the official start of construction of the Building for Teaching & Advanced Training for RWTH’s Faculty of Medicine, which will be part of the Bio-Medical Engineering Cluster on RWTH Aachen Campus. The ceremony was attended by Jörg Frauenrath (managing partner, Frauenrath Group), Wolfgang Marcour (architect, sop Architekten), Dr. Margrethe Schmeer (mayoress, City of Aachen), Prof. Stefan Uhlig (dean, RWTH Aachen Faculty of Medicine), Prof. Thomas Schmitz-Rode (Director of the Bio-Medical Engineering Cluster) and Dr. Klaus Feuerborn (CEO, RWTH Aachen Campus GmbH).
In a Europe-wide investor selection process of RWTH Aachen Campus GmbH in May 2015, Frauenrath Group was awarded the contract for the first investor building of the Bio-Medical Engineering Cluster: Building for Teaching & Advanced Training (LWG) of RWTH’s Faculty of Medicine with an investment volume of 20 million euro. “Due to its prominent design and exposed location at the entrance to Forckenbeckstraße in the south of Campus Melaten, the building will soon become the ‘Gate to Campus Melaten'”, says Jörg Frauenrath of Frauenrath Group. Completion is scheduled for autumn 2017.
On 6,500 square meters, the seven-storey building will be home to a teaching area with a demonstration operating room and a teaching concept that will be unique in Europe. Student training, continuous education for doctors and medical staff as well as the testing of medical devices will all be carried out under one roof.
Professor Stefan Uhlig, dean of the Faculty of Medicine: “At last we will be able to provide modern rooms to students and teachers of our Model Education Program in Human Medicine, which has set new benchmarks across Germany. University hospital staff will also be provided with ideal conditions for further education”.
Aachen, April 29, 2016 – The International Laser Technology Congress AKL’16, organized by Fraunhofer ILT, welcomed more than 500 laser technology experts and 100 scientists, business leaders and politicians to the Campus Talk during the evening event. These guests saw as property developers Landmarken AG and KPF architects officially handed Fraunhofer ILT the keys to the new Photonics Cluster building. Following the “Photonics Cluster – Tailored Light” talk, guests had the opportunity to visit the new building and take a look at its research facilities and offices.
The discussion panel comprised Annekathrin Grehling, Aachen’s city manager; Prof. Ernst Schmachtenberg, Rector, RWTH Aachen; Norbert Hermanns, CEO Landmarken AG; Prof. Reinhart Poprawe, Director of the Photonics Cluster and Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT; Jens Hardvendel, a Director with architects KPF; and Ingomar Kelbassa, Department Manager, Siemens AG. The focus of the discussion was on the building’s technical research applications and structural dimensions. Grehling and Schmachtenberg stressed how Aachen is world renowned for its multi-award-winning laser technology for manufacturing industries.
More than 690 members of the laser community converge on Aachen for the biennial AKL’16 Eurogress. At this year’s event, the 11th time AKL has been held, nearly 80 experts from laser manufacturers spoke to experienced users as well as newcomers to laser technology about current practices and the scientific community’s latest research findings. Held at Europe’s largest laser park at Fraunhofer ILT, guests could choose from more than 90 live laser-technology demonstrations. The technology conference also sponsored an exhibit of 52 well-known companies in the laser technology field. Here, participants enjoyed the chance to make new contacts or strengthen existingones by discussing innovations in laser technology, processes and laser products in greater depth.
“With the addition of the Photonics Cluster on RWTH Aachen Campus, our international reputation for laser technology will expand even further,” said Prof. Reinhart Poprawe, Director of the Photonics Cluster. “Now the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT and RWTH institutes can work together with companies under one roof to explore the future of lasers and their versatile applications.”
“The cluster principle on RWTH Aachen Campus, which allows the economic and the scientific communities to support one another, is reflected in the architecture as well,” said Landmarken AG CEO Norbert Hermanns, referring to the well-lit atrium and many meeting spaces of the newly inaugurated building. Landmarken AG is involved in the project’s developer, ante4C GmbH. Hermanns added: “We have believed in the campus project from the start, and we will remain closely connected to it.”
Cluster Photonik auf dem Campus Melaten (Campus GmbH)
Atrium des 1. Bauabschnittes (Campus GmbH)
Cluster Photonik Schlüsselübergabe (Fraunhofer ILT/Steindl)
Cluster Photonik Eröffnung (Fraunhofer ILT/Steindl)
Cluster Photonik Exponat LIGHT (Fraunhofer ILT/Steindl)
ANS-eroeffnung-photonik-2016-0119 (Fraunhofer ILT/Steindl)
ANS-eroeffnung-photonik-2016-0120 (Fraunhofer ILT/Steindl)
Cluster Photonik Atrium (Fraunhofer ILT/Steindl)
Cluster Photonik Außen (Fraunhofer ILT/Steindl)
e.GO Mobile moving the market with its electric car
Aachen, 24th June 2016 – e.GO Mobile is developing a particularly cost-efficient electric car on RWTH Aachen Campus. Production researcher and e.GO Mobile CEO Professor Günther Schuh and his team show that German Industrie 4.0 (Industry 4.0) make highly iterative development processes and particularly cost-efficient production of prototypes as well as small series possible. Their work has shown outstanding results.
The new EC directive L7e, defining small vehicles of a top speed of 90 km/h and a maximum width of 1.50 m, has been beneficial to development. The standard e.GO Life is expected to cost 12,500 euro. If supplied with two additional batteries and 2 + 2 seating, the car will achieve a maximum range of 120 km and will cost 13,900 euro. In 2017 a first batch of 100 rapid prototypes will be manufactured, and 75 will be sold to beta testers.
e.GO Life is the second electric car developed on RWTH Aachen Campus. In 2010, StreetScooter was launched, which now produces an all-electric light commercial vehicle for last mile delivery in series. StreetScooter currently manufactures six cars per day in Aachen. These vehicles are used in daily operations by Deutsche Post DHL Group across Germany. In 2014, Deutsche Post DHL Group acquired StreetScooter. “Our objective is to show that already today, total costs of operations of all-electric cars are comparable to those of traditional cars with combustion engines,” says Professor Günther Schuh, e.GO Mobile’s CEO and former StreetScooter co-founder.
This e.GO Life is an attractive, compact city car, especially useful as a second or third car for larger families or as a fleet vehicle. Driving the car is simply fun, because it makes perfect use of the electric drives – above average torque and great utilization of space. “Once the e.GO Life has established itself on the market, we aim for a series production of up to 10,000 cars per year, produced at the Aachen industrial estate,” says Professor Günther Schuh.
RWTH Aachen Campus brings together science and business, which allowed for the development of this near-to-production car below 30 million euro. The 50 dedicated team members with an average age of 29 years have been applying scrum processes. These processes have been originally tried and tested within software development and were now adapted to vehicle development in cooperation with RWTH researchers. 30% of the initial prototype was made of 3D printed components. PLM software permits both real and virtual construction as well as parallel development of different functional prototypes by teams at different locations.
Regular, speedy design checks using aixCAVE, a virtual reality installation at RWTH Aachen’s IT Center, considerably accelerate the development process. Early simulations produced a chassis that can be particularly sturdy with electric cars by using the strength of the robust and stiff battery compartment, which enhances the passive safety qualities of the entire vehicle.
Structural plastic exteriors reduce overall production costs particularly if produced in small quantities, compared to customary integral bodies. Powered by a mass-production 48 volt electric engine as well as the consistent modular design further decrease the already very low production costs. “We had hoped to make our frugal engineering approach work and produce an extremely affordable electric car. However, we ourselves are very much surprised how fun it is to drive the e.GO Life”, says Professor Günther Schuh.
Key technical specifications
Powertrain: BOSCH 48V drive system
Performance: 15 kW continuous output
(2×10 kW peak performance)
Battery capacity: 9.6 kWh
Acceleration 0 -50 kph: 3.9 sec
Range: 80 km (standard model)
120 km (extended version)
Dimensions (length/width/height): 3150 / 1500 / 1460 mm
Curb weight: 450 kg (without battery)
Chassis: 2 + 2 seating
Design
Entwicklung
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