Day: June 22, 2023

The Copenhagen Pride parade, which takes place on 19 August, has announced that it will only be using electric trucks (EVs) for its floats. This makes it the first Pride event in the world to use only EVs in the parade, many of which will be provided by the logistics company DFDS Group and Volvo Trucks.

The Copenhagen Pride event will therefore be bringing social and environmental celebrations together, raising the issue of LGBTQ equal rights and celebrating sexual and love diversity, while at the same time decarbonising its pride parade. The commitment to use EVs is a step towards fulfilling a three-year goal, agreed upon last autumn, to make the festival more environmentally friendly.

According the Lars Henriksen, the political chairperson of Copenhagen Pride, as quoted in the CPH Post, ‘the parade is using 100% EVs to be more sustainable and green as the climate crisis also affects LGBTQ communities.’

According to the DFDS Group, which is supplying 30 vehicles for the parade, an electric truck saves on average 52.3 tonnes of CO2 emissions a year. The Volvo Trucks will all have zero emissions and be equipped with sound systems, toilets and DJs powered by the electric truck battery.

The vision of TARGET-X is to strengthen important economic sectors in Europe by integrating 5G and 6G, accelerating the digital transformation in the Manufacturing, Energy, Automotive and Construction verticals. Below the list of Automotive Challenges addressed in this 1st open call.

The TARGET-X project is looking for an individual entity (SME) or micro-consortium composed of 2 SMEs, registered prior to the launch of the TARGET-X 1st Open Call.

You can submit your application for your activity addressing performance testing or the development of devices or solutions, use cases, KPIs and KVIs applicable to one topic and receive up to €60,000. The call will be open until 26 July 2023.

List of Automotive Challenges:

• Performance comparison between Edge- and public-Internet-deployed services
• Environment-aware teleoperated driving
• Automated Valet Parking (Type 2)
• Remote supervision for Autonomous Driving
• Infrastructure-mounted sensors for automated buses
• API deployment to abstract connectivity and data collection process for automotive applications
• Car, road, and edge processing time synchronization for V2X digital twins
• Methods of satisfying UL/DL tend use-cases with a fixed TDD configuration
• Connected Ambulance
• Vehicle platooning
• Digital twins’ generation methodology for road safety
• Cooperative perception for Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs): Preventive Collision Warning
• Cooperative perception for Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs): Cooperative Sensing (I)
• Dynamic Operational Design Domain (ODD) according to network conditions