IAPS-Joint Research Institute for Advanced Power Sources for Electric Vehicles

The “Joint Research Institute for Advanced Power Sources for Electric Vehicles (IAPS)" between Technische Universität München (TUM) and Tsinghua University (THU) was established in 2010 in order to institutionalize the cooperation between TUM and THU in the area of Electromobility, and to bundle the corresponding activities in the different departments of the Universities. IAPS has built up a platform for networking between industry and research in China and Germany.

On the German side, the IAPS was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the Program “Concept and Preparatory Measures of German Universities for the Establishment of Joint Research Structures with Partners in the Asia Pacific Research Area (APRA)”. On the Chinese side, a start-up financing was provided by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST). While the BMBF funding has expired, the collaboration with the project partners at Tsinghua University is still alive and continued in new research activities, as in the project "NOVBATCON".