YESILOVA HOLDING AS

Their core work

Yesilova Holding is a Turkish industrial manufacturing company based in Bursa — Turkey's automotive heartland — specializing in automotive components, with a clear strategic pivot toward electric vehicle technologies. In their H2020 work, they contribute industrial manufacturing capability to research consortia tackling two of the EV sector's hardest problems: making batteries safer, faster-charging, and usable beyond their first life, and making vehicle structures lighter without sacrificing performance. As coordinator of ALBATROSS, they led a multi-country effort on advanced battery systems integrating thermal management, state-of-health monitoring, and second-life reuse frameworks. Their participation in LEVIS adds a sustainability dimension, applying cradle-to-cradle principles and eco-design to lightweight automotive parts for EVs.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Yesilova's H2020 record spans only two concurrent projects, both launched in 2021, so the keyword split reflects parallel rather than sequential evolution — they were working on battery safety and fast charging in ALBATROSS at the same time as eco-design and circular materials in LEVIS. That said, the keyword pattern does suggest a broadening scope: the ALBATROSS-era focus was deep and technical (BMS, state of health, state of safety, second life), while the LEVIS framing adds a lifecycle and sustainability lens (cradle-to-cradle, eco-design). The trajectory points toward a company moving from pure performance engineering toward integrated sustainability engineering for EV platforms.

Yesilova appears to be positioning itself at the intersection of EV performance engineering and sustainable manufacturing — a direction that aligns with where Tier-1 automotive supply chains are heading under Euro 7 and EU battery regulation pressure.

How they like to work

Yesilova has shown both leadership and followership in EU projects: they coordinated ALBATROSS — a complex multi-partner Innovation Action — while simultaneously participating as a partner in LEVIS. With 36 unique consortium partners across 11 countries from just two projects, they engage in large, diverse consortia rather than small bilateral arrangements. This suggests they are comfortable operating within complex multi-stakeholder research programs, both as the organisation driving the agenda and as an industrial partner contributing manufacturing expertise.

Yesilova has built a surprisingly broad network for an SME with only two projects — 36 distinct partners across 11 countries, likely spanning Western and Southern Europe alongside Turkey. This density suggests their consortia were large, pan-European Innovation Actions rather than bilateral bilateral research projects.

What sets them apart

Yesilova sits at a rare intersection: an SME-scale industrial manufacturer in Turkey that has successfully coordinated a competitive Horizon 2020 Innovation Action in the battery systems space — a role typically dominated by large OEMs or Tier-1 suppliers. For consortium builders, they offer Turkish industrial manufacturing capacity combined with EU project management experience, which is particularly valuable for projects needing to demonstrate industrial uptake beyond the EU core. Their dual expertise in both battery systems and lightweight structural components also makes them unusually versatile within EV platform development consortia.

Highlights from their portfolio

• ALBATROSS
  Yesilova's largest project (€629,694) and their only coordination role — a full Innovation Action on next-generation EV battery systems covering fast charging, second-life reuse, and safety, demonstrating both technical depth and project leadership capability.
• LEVIS
  Signals Yesilova's expansion into circular economy thinking for automotive materials, combining lightweight engineering with eco-design principles — a strategically important combination as EU end-of-life vehicle regulation tightens.