VEDECOM : the laboratory for the vehicle of tomorrow
04-11-2019
Philippe WATTEAU, CEO, VEDECOM
The VEDECOM Institute for Energy Transition was founded in 2014 as an unprecedented collaboration between automotive and aerospace companies, mobility ecosystem infrastructure and service operators, academic research institutes and local authorities in the Ile-de-France region. The aim of VEDECOM is to develop disruptive technologies and a cross-disciplinary vision of new usages, for sustainable, safe, efficient and affordable mobility, while strengthening ties between academic and industrial stakeholders. It supports them in their common drive to generate effective innovation in the field of mobility, with particular attention to electric vehicles, autonomous and connected vehicles, and shared mobility and energy infrastructure and services. VEDECOM, thanks to its its multi-disciplinary scientific expertise, contributes to overcome technological bottleneck and to remove acceptability obstacles via a rigorous approach to human factors and ergonomics.