In February 2022, the Victoria Government announced that first electric vehicle research facility in the southern hemisphere would be established at RMIT.
Research lead: Associate Professor Mahdi Jalili
Left to right: Sheena Watt MP (Member for Northern Metropolitan Region), Professor Alec Cameron (RMIT Vice-Chancellor and President), Professor Susan Dodds (Deputy Vice Chancellor Research and Industry Engagement, Latrobe University), Dr Leonie Walsh (Chair, C4NET), Dr Amanda Caples (Victoria’s Lead Scientist), Professor Calum Drummond (RMIT Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Innovation and Vice-President), Liam Henderson (Energy Innovation Lead, City of Melbourne) and Peter McTaggart (Manager AI and Data Analytics Citipower & Powercor).
In February 2022, the Victoria Government announced that first electric vehicle research facility in the southern hemisphere would be established at RMIT.
The Centre will support the Electrification of Victoria’s Future Fleet, bringing government, university and industry partners together around the expertise and infrastructure needed to support widespread adoption of electric vehicles in Victoria. You can read the related media release here.
Sustainable Technologies and Systems Platform Director Professor Gary Rosengarten said RMIT’s Enabling Impact Platforms played a critical role in bring together the right people to help secure the funding for this new centre.
Platform funding allowed the creation of the Energy@RMIT network, pulling together researchers from different disciplines and backgrounds, including Associate Professor Mahdi Jalili who is the lead researcher for the Electric Vehicle Living Lab.
This led to several interdisciplinary roundtable events that ultimately seeded the collaboration needed to secure the major government grant for the electric vehicle research facility.
This initiative was led from RMIT’s School of Engineering and included researchers from the School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, and the Graduate School of Business and Law.
The first electric vehicle research facility of its kind in the southern hemisphere will be established at RMIT University in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD.
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Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.