The challenge was to implement a sustainable alternative that matched or outperformed the performance and safety metrics of traditional carbon fibres, without compromising the vehicle’s performance.

While the number of waste lithium-ion batteries is increasing, locally produced raw materials remain scarce. Recycling remains the answer to both of these challenges. Webasto and Porsche both acknowledge the crucial role of recycling in electrifying the automotive market. As distributors of batteries, both partners are facing increasingly strict EU regulations and recycling quotas in upcoming years. Both Webasto as battery pack and module manufacturer and Porsche as an OEM aim to minimise their CO2 footprint with a sustainable disposal of production scraps, but also to ensure an easy recyclability of their batteries. Further, they consider it strategically important to secure access to locally produced and sustainable raw materials and therefore aim to develop a closed-loop concept.

The vehicle validation of advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) with state of the art technology requires expensive measurement equipment, which is not scalable for large vehicle fleets. Therefore, only limited test scenarios can be addressed. Porsche Engineering Group (PEG) and Peregrine.ai teamed up to further advance the utilization of smartphone camera capabilities to detect objects in traffic. While PEG provided the smartphone to serve as data logger, connectivity and camera device, Peregrine.ai integrated their AI-powered vision for object detection at the edge.