Led by INESC ID, the Horizon Project will develop customised solutions for different types of solar-powered vehicles and infrastructures.
[Lisbon, February 2026] – The Horizon SOLAR-MOVE project, coordinated by Portuguese R&D Institute
INESC-ID, kicked off in November 2025 at
POLIS headquarters in Belgium, one of the consortium partners. The project will run for 42 months, concluding in April 2029, with a maximum grant amount of approximately 7 million Euros. The consortium will count on the expertise of 34 partners across 16 countries.
As road transport becomes electrified, it puts additional pressure on power grids. To address this challenge and facilitate the adoption of EVs, the SOLAR-MOVE project aims to develop and test Vehicle-Integrated Photovoltaic (
VIPV) solutions. These solutions will target the main areas of road transport, including cities, residential and service buildings, passenger transport, and highways. Demonstrations will include five types of VIPVs:
- Heavy-Duty vehicles with solar panels on trailers;
- Garbage trucks;
- Passenger buses;
- Last-Mile delivery vehicles;
- Motorhomes.
Additionally, it will also implement five types of Electric Vehicle Compliant Parking Lot Integrated PV (
ePIPV),
charging stations with photovoltaic panels. These charging stations will have different features on highways, opportunity charging for e-Buses, municipal ePIPVs, public ePIPVs in commercial areas, and private ePIPVs.
Pilot projects will be conducted in
seven countries:
- Denmark: heavy-duty vehicles and an ePIPV parking lot for trucks
- Greece: VIPV garbage truck and municipal ePIPV management
- Turkey: VIPV passenger bus and ePIPV bus opportunity charging
- Portugal: last-mile delivery VIPV and public ePIPV management
- New Zealand: last-mile delivery VIPV and public ePIPV management
- Albania: private ePIPV management
- Slovenia: VIPV motorhome
The project findings will contribute to
policy recommendations,
guidelines for municipalities on procurement processes, and
regulatory frameworks to support the widespread adoption of VIPV and ePIPV technologies.
To stay updated on the latest developments, follow the project on LinkedIn.
Consortium members
Coordinator: INESC-ID
INESC-ID is a private non-profit institution, registered in 1999, officially declared of public interest, owned by Instituto Superior Técnico and INESC – Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores. INESC-ID is one of the main research institutes in Portugal in the domains of information systems, data science, electronics and telecommunications. INESC-ID was recently evaluated by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology as an Excellent Unit and awarded by the Portuguese government with the status of Laboratório Associado. In close cooperation with its university partners, INESC-ID has emerged as an institution of reference, intensely involved in several high-visibility projects that have defined the national and international state of the art in these domains.
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