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Postgraduate program “Specialist in the diagnosis, assessment, and operation of electric and hybrid vehicles”.
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Here you can find ongoing and completed projects, as well as publications resulting from the research activities.
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The Formula Student Team aims to develop a one-seated prototype to compete at dedicated international student design and racing competitions.
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The first green Hydrogen Production Facility in Romania and one of the first in Eastern Europe.
Cluj-Napoca is taking a significant step towards sustainable transportation by establishing a Hydrogen Production and Refueling Station. This facility will provide a clean energy source to fuel hydrogen-powered buses and vehicles, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and supporting green mobility.
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EMARC actively supports the research, development, and deployment of CCAM technologies to enable safer, cleaner, and more efficient transport systems. By integrating vehicle connectivity, automation, and intelligent infrastructure, CCAM revolutionizes how people and goods move.
EMARC
Areas of expertise
- Battery electric vehicles
- Hybrid vehicles
- Fuel cell vehicles
- Optimization of high voltage batteries
- Thermal management of high voltage batteries
- Autonomous vehicles
- Solutions for the decarbonization of cities
- Optimization of electric bus fleet for urban and extra-urban transport
EMARC
Our Mission
Our mission is to ensure a sustainable, inclusive, and fair mobility environment for everyone. In our work we strive to provide the best possible experience and value to our customers.
Our Vision
100% green sustainable transport.
Our Values
Integrity, Respect, Professionalism, Dedication
Events
Find out more about our activity.
Our Team
Bogdan VARGA
Electric vehicles, Hybrid vehicles, Fuel cell vehicles, Autonomous driving, Urban mobility
Director of EMARC
Florin MARIAȘIU
Electric vehicles, Hybrid vehicles, Urban mobility
Călin ICLODEAN
Autonomous driving, Electric vehicles, Fuel cell vehicles
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Dan MOLDOVANU
System control, Electric vehicles, Hybrid vehicles, Urban mobility
Nicolae Vlad BURNETE
Hybrid vehicles, Fuel cell vehicles, Urban mobility, Electric, Hybrid and Classic vehicle diagnosis
Nicolae CORDOȘ
Vehicle dynamics, Autonomous driving, Urban mobility
Ioana SECHEL
Economics
Adela BORZAN
Design and Analysis using CAD/CAM technology
Ioan SZABO
Electric vehicles, Hybrid vehicles
Irina DUMA
Vehicle dynamics
Thomas BUIDIN
Electric vehicles, Hybrid vehicles
Horațiu CĂRĂUȘAN
Fuel Cell vehicles, Urban mobility
Tudor OARGĂ
Electric vehicles, Urban mobility, Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
Gabriel PRUNEAN
Electric vehicles, Vehicle dynamics, Autonomous vehicles
Nicolae VLAD
Vehicle diagnosis
Andreia MOLEA
System control, Testing and homologation of vehicles
Research activity
Ongoing Projects
NZC-Pilot Cities Programme Call
NetZeroCities — H2020-LC-GD-2020 / H2020-LC-GD-2020-2 – partners along Cluj-Napoca Municipality
Partners
- Order of Romanian Architects – Transilvania Branch
- Transylvania IT Cluster
- Transylvania Energy Cluster – TREC
- Babeș-Bolyai University
- Technical University of Cluj Napoca
- Urbannect
- Cluj Metropolitan Area
NetZeroCities helps Europe in its ambition to achieve climate neutrality. The project comes in support of the EU’s Mission “100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030” and provides cities with world-class expertise and services tailored to their needs to overcome the current structural, institutional and cultural barriers they face in order to achieve climate neutrality by 2030.
OLGA, Holistic Green Airport
H2020-LC-GD-5-1-2020, HOLISTIC GREEN AIRPORT,
101036871 – OLGA
Main objectives
- Increase the environmental Performance from a Flight Operations Perspective (EPFO)
- Increase the environmental Performance from a Passenger and Freight Perspective (EPPF)
- Increase the environmental Performance from a Community Perspective (EPC)
Contributions
- Provide real life measurement data from electric buses to validate the simulation model
- Attitudes of passengers regarding combined transport (intermodal)
- Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV) that will be available in public transport in 2022 will be tested by TUCN and CLUJ. COMO will be involved in the study of CAVs
- Demonstrate the possibility and limitations of using a CAV application
- Test CAV to transport passengers to and from the airport during the night (currently not covered by public transport)
Grants
NZC-Pilot Cities Programme Call
101036519 — NetZeroCities — H2020-LC-GD-2020 / H2020-LC-GD-2020-2 – partners along Cluj-Napoca Municipality
Partners:
- Order of Romanian Architects – Transilvania Branch
- Transylvania IT Cluster
- Transylvania Energy Cluster – TREC
- Babeș-Bolyai University
- Technical University of Cluj Napoca
- Urbannect
- Cluj Metropolitan Area
Tendering projects and opportunity studies
- Contract no. 36557/11.11.2022 elaboration of tender books for the acquisition of H2 buses (12m) and a H2 production plant;
- Contract no. 10430/2022 Elaboration of the opportunity study for modernization of the local public transport system by purchasing ecological vehicles in Bistrita Municipality;
- Contract no. 594517 / 18.11.2019: Tender procedures for the purchase of autonomous electric shuttle bus dedicated to Cluj-Napoca Municipality;
Net Zero Cities – National Competence Centre and solutions for the development of Climate Neutral and Smart Cities
- NetZeRoCities is set to define the operational, financial, and legal conditions to create the “Romanian Competence Centre on Climate-Neutral Smart Cities” that will support Romanian cities to achieve Climate Neutrality, by 2030 for the cities selected by the EU Mission, and by 2050 by all Romanian cities.
- Leading the Component Project no. 2 – Sustainable Energy and Environment, which will be developed in close connection with the other four Component Projects of the consortium.
Feasibility study for Hydrogen Production and Distribution System
- Construction of a Hydrogen Production and Distribution facility with an electrolyser installed power of 2.2 MW, supplied by green energy (hydro and solar) and a production capacity of 1 Tonn H2/day.
- The system will include storage and dispensers for 350 and 700 bar.
- Estimated to be completed by 2026, coordinated by Bogdan VARGA, project received support 360h of consultancy from Project Development Assistance for Regions (PDA II) – Clean Hydrogen Partnership.
- The subsequent programme, contributed to the development and validation of the Hydrogen production and distributions plant, constructed in Cluj-Napoca.
Tendering projects and opportunity studies
- Contract no. 19326/2023: Elaboration of tender books for the acquisition of electric buses (12 m), electric minibuses and charging stations for Alba Iulia and Ciugud Municipality
- Contract no. 36557/2022: Elaboration of tender books for the acquisition of H2 buses (12m) and a H2 production plant
- Contract no. 10430/2022: Elaboration of the opportunity study for modernization of the local public transport system by purchasing ecological vehicles for Bistrita Municipality
- Contract no. 594517/2019: Tender procedures for the purchase of autonomous electric shuttle bus dedicated to Cluj-Napoca Municipality
Consulting
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Completed Projects
Support to Jaspers – Low- Carbon Rolling Stock for Urban Transport in Romania
Contract no.14120/14.06.2018 – Support to Jaspers – Low- Carbon Rolling Stock for Urban Transport in Romania-TA2018065 RO JEU, beneficiary- European Investment Bank– Luxemburg; – 530 vehicles in various configuration with a total value of 380 milion euro
Project complete name
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Tendering projects and opportunity studies
- Contract no. 19950/07.05.2021 Opportunity study in relation to Fuel Cell electric articulated bus and electrical articulated electrical bus for the Larger Metropolitan Area Cluj
- Development of opportunity study for the purchase of articulated electric buses and buses with fuel cells (Hydrogen) in the Municipality of Cluj-Napoca
- Contract no. 71 / 18.10.2016 Tender procedures for the purchase of 30 electric buses, Municipality of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Contract no. 99 / 07.12.2017 Elaboration of the opportunity study (traffic study and justification of the environmental impact of the new transport vehicles) for the acquisition of 19 electric buses, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Contract no. 83 / 02.10.2017 Tenders procedures for the purchase of trolley buses and trams, Municipality of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Contract no. 97 / 07.12.2017 Elaboration of opportunity study (study of traffic and justification of the acquisition of environmental impact of new transport vehicles) for the acquisition of 30 trolleybuses, Municipality of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Contract no. 98 / 07.12.2017 Elaboration of the opportunity study (traffic study and justification of the environmental impact of the new transport vehicles) for the acquisition of 16 trams, Municipality of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
URBIVEL
Advanced technologies for intelligent urban electric vehicles (3.6 Mil. Euro) POC-A1-A1.2.3-G-2-15 Partnerships for knowledge transfer:
- together with Porsche Engineering Romania , a battery was developed
- together with INOVO developed an electric car
Research results
Products, technologies, reports, studies
- Tender books for electric buses
- Tender books for trams
- Tender books for trolleybuses
- Opportunity studies regarding green transport and decarbonization of cities
- Consultancy for 100 climate-neutral and smart cities
Relevant Publications
- Burnete, N.V., Mariasiu, F., Depcik, C., Barabas, I., and Moldovanu, D., “Review of thermoelectric generation for internal combustion engine waste heat recovery,” Prog Energy Combust Sci 91:101009, 2022, doi:10.1016/J.PECS.2022.101009
- Varga, B.O., Sagoian, A., and Mariasiu, F., “Prediction of Electric Vehicle Range: A Comprehensive Review of Current Issues and Challenges,” Energies 2019, Vol. 12, Page 946 12(5):946, 2019, doi:10.3390/EN12050946
- Sagoian, A., Varga, B.O., and Solodushkin, S., “Energy Consumption Prediction of Electric Vehicle Air Conditioning System Using Artificial Intelligence,” Proceedings - 2021 Ural Symposium on Biomedical Engineering, Radioelectronics and Information Technology, USBEREIT 2021, 2021, doi:10.1109/USBEREIT51232.2021.9455021
- Varga, B.O., Mariasiu, F., Miclea, C.D., Szabo, I., Sirca, A.A., and Nicolae, V., “Direct and indirect environmental aspects of an electric bus fleet under service,” Energies (Basel) 13(2), 2020, doi:10.3390/en13020336
- Varga, B.O., “Electric vehicles, primary energy sources and CO2 emissions: Romanian case study,” Energy 49(1), 2013, doi:10.1016/j.energy.2012.10.036
- Buidin, T.I.C. and Mariasiu, F., Battery thermal management systems: Current status and design approach of cooling technologies, Energies (Basel) 14(16), 2021, doi:10.3390/en14164879
- Buidin, T.I.C. and Mariasiu, F., “Modeling approach of an air-based battery thermal management system for an electric vehicle,” Applied Sciences (Switzerland) 11(15), 2021, doi:10.3390/app11157089
- Varga, B.O. and Mariasiu, F., “Indirect environment-related effects of electric car vehicles use,” Environ Eng Manag J 17(7), 2018, doi:10.30638/eemj.2018.158
- Iclodean, C., Varga, B., Burnete, N., Cimerdean, D., and Jurchiş, B., “Comparison of Different Battery Types for Electric Vehicles,” IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2017, doi:10.1088/1757-899X/252/1/012058
- Manzetti, S. and Mariasiu, F., “Electric vehicle battery technologies: From present state to future systems,” RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS 51:1004–1012, 2015, doi:10.1016/j.rser.2015.07.010
- Cărăuşan, H., Varga, B.O., Moldovanu, D., and Sirca, A.A., “Comparative analysis of fuel cell and electric public for transport busses,” IOP Conf Ser Mater Sci Eng 1256(1), 2022, doi:10.1088/1757-899x/1256/1/012041
- Cărăuşan, H., Varga, B.O., Moldovanu, D., Mariașiu, F., Prunean, G. and Oargă, I.-T., "Energy Efficiency Assesment of Sustainable Public Transport Solutions: a Comparative Analysis Fuel Cell vs Battery in Real Life Scenarios," 2023 58th International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC), Dublin, Ireland, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi:10.1109/UPEC57427.2023.10294682
- Moldovanu, D., Mariaşiu, F., Varga, B.O., Borzan, A.I., Cărăuşan, H. and Micu, D.D, "Analysis of the modes of operation of an electric vehicle on energy consumption," 2023 10th International Conference on Modern Power Systems (MPS), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2023, pp. 1-5, doi:10.1109/MPS58874.2023.10187463
- Oargă, I.-T., Varga, B.O., Moldovanu, D., Cărăușan, H., Prunean, G., ”Modular Autonomous Vehicles’ Application in Public Transport Networks: Conceptual Analysis on Airport Connection.” Sustainability. 2024; 16(4):1512, doi.org/10.3390/su16041512
- Cărăușan, H., Varga, B.O., Moldovanu, D., Prunean, G., Oargă, I.-T., ”Energy Efficiency Analysis of a Fuel Cell Bus Model Using Real Scenarios Generated by Data Collection.” Sustainability. 2024; 16(5):1863, doi.org/10.3390/su16051863
- Oargă, I.-T., Prunean, G., Varga, B.O., Moldovanu, D., Micu, D.D., ”Comparative Analysis of Energy Efficiency between Battery Electric Buses and Modular Autonomous Vehicles.” Applied Sciences. 2024; 14(11):4389, doi.org/10.3390/app14114389
Relevant Books
- Iclodean C, Varga BO, Pfister F. Autonomous Vehicles Technological Trends. Electronics. 2023 Feb 27;12(5):1149.
- Iclodean C. Introducere in sistemele autovehiculelor. RISOPRINT; 2023.
- Iclodean C, Varga BO, Cordoș N. Autonomous Vehicles for Public Transportation. Springer Nature; 2022.
- Varga BO, Mariasiu F, Moldovanu D, Iclodean C. Electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. Springer International Publishing; 2015.
- Varga BO, Iclodean C, Mariasiu F. Electric and hybrid buses for urban transport: energy efficiency strategies. Springer International Publishing; 2016.
ABOUT
Formula Student
Founded at the beginning of 2019 from an initial group of about 20 members, our team is constantly attracting new students from various departments of the university, becoming an engineering team ready to face the challenges of such a complex project, involving all the domains of the automotive sector.
The Formula Student is an international student design and racing competition. The goal is to develop a one-seated prototype and to compare it within Formula Student events with those of other universities on the track, as well as in terms of engineering solutions or manufacturing costs.
With our heads faced towards the future not only of motor racing, but also of the automotive industry and the world, our team’s vision is to build a Formula Student electric vehicle with high performances and low energy consumption.
Education
Postgraduate program
Specialist in the diagnosis, assessment, and operation of electric and hybrid vehicles
About the program
Engineers with a focus on automotive engineering, as well as everyone else involved in the maintenance and operation of motor vehicles, are faced with a new challenge that calls for the development of knowledge and skills tailored to new vehicle types, whose propulsion systems differ from those covered in undergraduate programs.
The program is designed with practical applications in mind, by covering especially new ideas about electric and hybrid vehicles.
The curriculum focuses on all of the high-voltage electrical systems found in electric and hybrid vehicles, but it also includes application projects that equip engineers with the knowledge and abilities necessary for conducting tests, doing technical analyses, and running their systems efficiently.
- Credits: 18
- Lecture hours: 70
- Project hours: 112
Curriculum
- Electric and hybrid vehicles – general concepts,
- High voltage electrical components of electric and hybrid vehicles,
- Diagnosis, assessment and repair specific to electric and hybrid vehicles.
Contact us
Address Location:
- Muncii Bvd. 103-105, Room C205-a
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