The European joined research project EVEREST was officially kicked off today under the project coordination of the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT).

EVEREST stands for "Energy-efficient VEhicle Range Enhancement through Smart Thermal design and user-centric solutions." Over the next three years, the project consortium - comprising vehicle manufacturers, Tier 1 suppliers, renowned research institutes, and SMEs—will work closely together to reduce the energy consumption of real vehicle demonstrators by at least 30%. This ambitious goal shall be achieved through innovative measures. Naturally, virtual prototypes - i.e., simulation models - play a key role in this effort.

Within this project, XRG will focus particularly on integrating zonal comfort models and on further development of the well-known XRG vehicle cabin models from the HumanComfort Library.

The project is kindly funded under EU grant agreement Horizon-CL5-2025-04-D5-05.