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EV Battery Forum + EV Charging Forum + E-Bikes Forum (Free Seminar)
Watch our 2 minutes short movie from April 2011 and hear what delegates and speakers said
New speaker: Sankar Das Gupta, Ph.D, DIC, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder of ELECTROVAYA will be speaking at the EV Battery Forum.
In 2012 we will have 3 conferences running parallel within the same venue with a shared exhibition, so you can meet delegates from the full value chain from events such as: the EV Battery Forum (2 days), the EV Charging Forum (2 days) and the E-Bikes Forum (1 day – Free Entry). Meet and listen to 56 speakers from 23 countries including…
13 Utilities such as: VATTENFALL, E.ON, Fortum, Verbund, State Grid, RWE, Dong Energy, Endesa
13 vehicle companies such as: BMW, NISSAN, Peugeot, Adam Opel, Axiam-Mega, Proton, Tata Hispano
Batteries: BMZ, Celxpert, Miljobil, Cap-XX, LG Chem
Read more about our Barcelona 2012 conferences by accessing our full programme for all 3 parallel Forums here. We have a new venue as well: the Luxurious Rey Juan Carlos and the event is fully endorsed by the Spanish Government as well as the Barcelona City Council.
ASIA
We have just completed our 4th EV Battery Forum – Asia: Shanghai 2011. Make sure you register to our newsletter to get the updates. In the meantime click here to see pictures from our last event in Europe and other past events in Asia. You can also watch our videos here.
WORLDWIDE
Why not keep in touch with your peers from all around the world, even if you cannot attend one of the Forums? Or why not discuss with them which questions should be addressed during one of the conferences? Join more than 2000 members in our Linkedin groups called: EV Battery Forum and/or EV Charging Forum (subject to approval). Click or copy and paste the link here below into your browser:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2841305&trk=anet_ug_grppro
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=4198666&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Any questions? Do contact us, please send an email to: emily(at)evbatteryforum.com or call Singapore +65 6243 0050
Gala Dinner at 8pm on 12th April
Join us and network with your colleagues at the Gala Dinner at the Maritime museum. It’s free when you book any two conference days.
Learn more about the 3rd EV Battery Forum by downloading a copy of the programme brochure here.
Forum Details
Date: 12 – 14 April 2011
Location: Barcelona International Convention Centre
Feel free to ask us questions or comment by contacting us here: news(at)evbatteryforum.com.
Exhibition At The 3rd EV Battery Forum!
Confirmed exhibitors for the 3rd EV Battery Forum – Europe include companies such as HERO ELECTRIC, TESLA, VECTRIX, GP BATTERIES, VOLTA ELECTRIC, NISSAN, INMOTIA and MATRA. Click here for the full list of exhibitors.
We are eager to meet you at the 3rd EV Battery Forum – Europe where 60 different speakers are featured and the forum includes parallel conferences such as the “EV Recharging Infrastructure”, the “E-Bikes Forum” and a Free Registration Half Day Seminar on “Marketing EVs”.
Endorsed by The Barcelona City Council and The Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, this year’s conference and exhibition is bringing a combination of Asian and Western participants making it a unique buyers and sellers exchange for the Electric Vehicle and Battery value chain. 13 speakers from a total of 60, are flying to Barcelona from countries such as China, Japan, India, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia and Singapore. 23 of them are vehicle manufacturers thus bringing a wider perspective on how to improve EV Business Models and Energy Density.
A 2 day conference ticket includes a Gala Dinner at the Barcelona Maritime Museum enabling you the network more easily with all the participants. Learn more about the 3rd EV Battery Forum by downloading a copy of the programme brochure here.
Forum Details
Date: 12 – 14 April 2011
Location: Barcelona International Convention Centre
Feel free to ask us questions or comment by contacting us here: news(at)evbatteryforum.com.
Next 2 Forums: Europe 12-14 April 2011 & China 6-8 September 2011
We have decided to host the 3rd EV Battery Forum in Barcelona (Europe) from the 12th to the 14th April 2011. Among the vehicle manufacturers already confirmed as speakers we have: RENAULT, ADAM OPEL, JAGUAR/LAND ROVER, LUXGEN, BYD, HERO ELECTRIC and NISSAN. The event has the full support from the Barcelona city council and the LIVE project thus ensuring that the full value chain from Spain will be present. Some of the key companies from Spain which will take part are: SEAT and ENDESA. Our last event in Beijing had attendees from 24 different countries and we are working towards having a worldwide representation at this conference in Europe including of course our key contacts from Asia especially China. If you would like to take part as a speaker please send your profile and topic suggestion to: news(at)evbatteryforum.com
If you want to check some pictures from the Bejing Forum please click here ! Thank you very much to all our speakers and delegates which represented more than 20 countries. Your feedback has been very encouraging. It has been a pleasure having delegates from all around the world again here with us in Beijing, representing a broad spectrum of companies from the entire EV value chain. Do join us for the next 2 Forums:
EUROPE 2011 > 12-14 April – Barcelona
ASIA 2011 > 6-8 September – Shanghai
Feel free to ask us questions or comment by contacting us here: news(at)evbatteryforum.com.
这是一个成功的会议，来自世界各地的代表与我们相聚在北京，他们广泛代表了整个电动车价值链。请参加 我们未来的两个论坛：
欧洲2011年罗马4月15日-12日
亚洲2011年中国9月6-8日
如果您有任何问题，请随时联系我们：news(at)ev-li-ionbatteryforum.com
Ferrari hybrid heads to Geneva
Ferrari will show its first hybrid production car this March at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show. The high-end hybrid specimen will be a gas-electric version of the carmaker’s eye-popping 599 GTB. It will also be the world’s first ready-for-market exotic hybrid.
The exact specs will not be known until the car is unveiled, but it will most likely unite a lithium ion battery pack with a pair of electric motors fixed at the rear axle, along with Ferrari’s outlandishly powerful 600-plus horsepower V12 engine.
[Source & Read More: Hybrid Cars]
Ask what EVs can do for the smart grid
It was barely a year ago that electric vehicles (EVs) were largely relegated to the novelty category by most in the utility industry. Now, one finds EVs prominently covered in virtually every utility smart grid conference program, and some utilities are even considering the launch of new EV charging businesses. In over 20 years of utility industry involvement, I have never seen utilities go through such a rapid shift in thinking.
Many factors contributed to the shift in utility perspectives toward EVs, but the turning point arguably would be the announcement of billions of dollars of federal stimulus funding to support alternative fuel vehicle programs in the U.S. and elsewhere. This has propelled auto manufacturers to announce planned production of at least 60 xEV (EV, PHEV, HEV) passenger and light duty plug-in vehicles by 2010, and at least 119 models of xEV passenger vehicles by 2015 (1). What does the arrival of all of these EVs mean for utilities?
[Source & Read More: Better Place]
2013 BMW: Vision EfficientDynamics is a go
As proof that car companies no longer make showcars just for giggles, a senior BMW authority out of Munich has assured Inside Line that the Vision EfficientDynamics plug-in pure hybrid 2+2 concept car rolled out in September at the 2009 Frankfurt Auto Show is earmarked for production.
[Source & Read More: Inside Line]
20 battery startups hitting the road with lithium-ion
When we first put out our list of 13 startups working on lithium-ion batteries for vehicles, the market was waiting for billions of stimulus dollars for advanced batteries to be doled out, and hoping to gear up for its biggest ever plug-in vehicle push in 2010. That was a half a year ago, and subsequent DOE funds and major supply deals have made winners and losers out of contenders.
One of the startups on our original list — A123Systems — went on to have the biggest public offering of 2009 (now that it’s publicly traded, we’re still tracking ‘em but cut the company from our startup watch list). At the other end of the spectrum, a once promising company called Imara called it quits after being unable to raise new financing. So uh, they won’t be hitting the road any time soon.
Here’s our updated list, now with 20 battery startups (working on battery cells, materials, management systems and other tech) you should know about:
[Source & Read More: earth2tech]
The run on lithium
Car manufacturers rush to close deals with lithium suppliers and to secure access to a resource that is as common as lead or nickel. The supply chain of lithium is fragile due to unreliable lithium miners and suppliers.
Global automakers and battery makers need to ensure a steady supply of lithium to power the expected electric-car revolution. Sources for the mineral are well spotted in Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, Australia and China and not scarce, however, few are reliable miners and suppliers. The currently biggest producers of Lithium are Chile’s SQM, the German Chemetall, a division of U.S. Rockwood Holdings Inc., and U.S. FMC Corp.. However, the political stability of at least the first two supplier countries is less than stable.
[Source & Read More: cars21.com]
Batteries make EVs go … but it’s not as simple as it seems
There’s no way around it: Electric vehicles are coming. It’s just that what makes them go — batteries — are the rabbit in a horse race. It looks like lithium-ion has a long lead on the other technologies, but it’s a confusing and controversial race.
Global management consulting firm PRTM notes that cutting the cost of lithium-ion battery production “has been broadly discussed as the key enabler for electric vehicles (EVs) to become viable as mass market vehicles in the coming years. It is widely expected that battery costs will need to come down by more than 50% before the total cost of ownership of EVs will approach that of an internal combustion engine.”
[Source & Read More: Smart Grid News]
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