Grid4Mobility is a platform for studying the management of energy networks integrating buildings, storage systems, and electric vehicles. Grid4Mobility is a structuring and unifying project around energy networks that involves four institutions (INSA-LYON, Université Gustave Eiffel, Université Lyon 1, École Centrale de Lyon) and the CNRS. It brings together around ten laboratories in the fields of energy, automation, electrical engineering, materials, mechanics, data science, and human and social sciences, most of which are located on the Lyon site. Grid4Mobility is strongly supported by the CNRS engineering research federation IngéLySe FR3411 and the Carnot Institute Ingénierie@Lyon. Funded under the 2021-2027 CPER, the total project budget is €3.8 million, financed by the RégionAuvergne Rhône-Alpes, Métrolpole de Lyon, the French government through the délégation régionale académique à la recherche et à l’innovation (DRARI), the institutions and the CNRS.

The project, currently led by Hervé Pabiou (CR CNRS – CETHIL) and Philippe Bonanaud (univ. Eiffel – responsible for developing the Transpolis platform), aims to structure the site's research around energy networks beyond 2027.

The Grid4Mobility project aims to develop a systemic approach to analyzing and optimizing energy and information management within an energy network integrating electric vehicles, energy storage systems, and buildings. It consists of two demonstrators (La Doua and Transpolis) and research equipment in the laboratories. Grid4Mobility is based on a unique approach from source to systems, including network control and management. It is spread across two sites:

• An academic site, located on the Doua campus in Villeurbanne, with extensive laboratory equipment and a solar building, grid, and electromobility demonstrator that will be implemented in the Archimède building, which houses the Direction du Patrimoine Immobilier de l’INSA-LYON (DPI).

• The Transpolis site, located in the town of Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens, 40 km from Lyon, provides access to road and urban paths for the development of heavy, autonomous, or unlicensed electric vehicles in a realistic but protected environment.

Grid4Mobility will enable testing, optimization, and evaluation in a fully integrated, real-world environment. This project is part of an open science approach that includes data sharing, experimentation, and equipment pooling.