The HiTECH-HEV project will be employed on 4 phases, as follows:

1. Establishing the modular architecture of the HEV and the main elements of the system.

1.1    Evaluation of the infrastructure and the acquisition of the main components needed for the implementation of the HiTECH-HEV project. (June - December 2012) The main infrastructure will be evaluated and the main devices are defined, as well as the necessary resources.
1.2    Establishing the hybridization degree and the modularity of the HEV system (June – December 2012) CO, P1 and P2 will establish the platform’s modularity and hybridization degree. At the end of the phase, the involved partners will present a technical report.  

2.        Study on HEV’s motorization and auxiliaries: steering, braking, air-conditioning.

2.1    Study on the most suited high speed motorization & drives solution. (January-December 2013, CO&P1) The propulsion solutions will be evaluated, studied, optimized, analyzed numerically and constructed.
2.2    Study on the main auxiliary devices and their drives. (March – June 2013, CO & P1) The auxiliary solutions will be evaluated, designed, optimized and evaluated in order to find the best variant.
2.3    Controllability limits of high speed motorization and of the auxiliaries. (June-December 2013, CO, P1 & P2) The CO & P1 will establish the controllability limits of the motorization, and P2 will elaborate the models.
2.4    Dissemination: publishing articles in conference proceedings and journals. Several articles propositions (for international journals and conferences) will be made.  

3.        Study of a highly efficient and reliable energy management of the HiL platform for the HEV.

3.1    Modeling the power sources. (January – December 2014; CO & P2) The CO will model different supplying sources and will link these models with the ones obtained in the 2nd phase.
3.2    Control techniques to optimize the energy management of the HEV. (January – December 2014; CO & P2) Different control techniques will be modeled and verified numerically by the Coordinator, while the Partner 2 assists for the identification of the inputs/outputs of the system.
3.3    Employing different energy management techniques, considering regenerative braking. (June – December 2014; CO, P1 & P2) The CO will employe the energy management, being assisted by both partners who verify/validate the model and the behavior of components of the HEV system.
3.4    Dissemination: publishing articles in conference proceedings and journals. Several articles propositions (for international journals and conferences) will be made.  

4. Software modeling and validation of the performances of the modular HiL platform of the HEV.

4.1    Programming the model of all HEV components within a specific language. (January - June 2015) The CO and P1 will assist Partner 2 for the implementation of all models of the designed motorization variants, auxiliaries, supplying source and their hybrid operation. A specific software will be developed by Partner 2.
4.2    Elaborating the software program for HiL platform. (January – June 2015; CO, P1 & P2)
4.3    Evaluation and validation of the performances and modularity of the HiL platform for testing high competitive HEV (January – June 2015; CO, P1 & P2). The overal system will be modeled, as well as the energy management on the HiL platform.
4.4    Dissemination: publishing articles in conference proceedings and journals. The technology of the overall platform operation should be proved. Several articles propositions (for international journals and conferences) will be made.