QDrive – innovative active glass for the automotive industry

Operation co-funded by EU cohesion policy (European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)) under the programme Smart growth - PL - ERDF (2014PL16RFOP001), managing authority: Ministerstwo obsługujące ministra właściwego ds. rozwoju regionalnego. The source names no beneficiary for this operation. Location: Rzeszowski (NUTS PL823); Tarnobrzeski (NUTS PL824); Poland. Budget: total eligible expenditure EUR 4,319,839.19; EU co-financing EUR 2,708,944.47 (co-financing rate 62.71%), as stated by the source. Runs 2021-06-01 to 2023-09-30. Source: Kohesio, EU cohesion policy projects managed by national and regional authorities (not CORDIS); selected because its summary names quantum technology. Summary from Kohesio (English machine translation by the source): The project will develop an innovative global photovoltaic glass based on quantum dots for automotive applications. The main advantages of the proposed product will be: high transparency at the same time generation of electricity, working even with a small amount of light, improving thermal insulation thanks to the absorption of the IR range, the ability to personalise the color and the degree of transparency and reduce light reflections. An important aspect is the possibility of using glass substrates with a specific curvature profile, which is crucial for the automotive industry. The work is motivated by the growing popularity of electric cars in the automotive market as one of the best ways to reduce air pollutant emissions from road transport, including CO2 and urban noise. In order to increase the share of energy from green sources, an efficient way can be to produce products transforming energy from sunlight into electricity, which are the permanent equipment of modern cars. The use of glass car surfaces as an element converting solar energy into electricity will directly respond to the needs of both the Company and the target customers – international automotive corporations, as well as indirectly also car users. In particular, roof surfaces up to 2 m², facing the active surface towards the sun, are important, limiting the possibility of shading. Reference_Aid_programme: SA.41471(2015/X) Purpose_public_aid: Article: 25 of Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the internal market in the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty Urz. EU L 187/1 of 26.06.2014).

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Source: Kohesio (EU cohesion policy projects), European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). Retrieved 2026-10-21. Licence: CC0 1.0 (Cohesion Open Data Platform, dataset 2014-2020 Kohesio projects). Selected metadata, adapted presentation; the publisher's record is authoritative. No endorsement by the source is implied. Licence: public domain dedication (CC0 1.0).

AI-assisted summary: The QDrive project, co-funded by the EU, aims to develop innovative photovoltaic glass using quantum dots for automotive applications. It has a budget of EUR 4,319,839.19 and runs from June 1, 2021, to September 30, 2023, in Poland. Suggested technology pillar: enabling. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.