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Masterclasses
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 Leader Dr.Peter HarropChairman IDTechEx Ltd |
 Leader Dr.Harry ZervosTechnology Analyst IDTechEx Ltd |
Speakers Mr John C Schaefer - Power of One Solar Car Project |
This non technical Masterclass explains why people and organisations buy electric vehicles EVs for land, sea and air and how the technology is modernising more and more vehicles, creating new EV markets. It looks at the markets by continent and by applicational type, showing how preferences hugely differ across the world. Which government support works and which does not? Learn how the greying of the population "the demographic timebomb" affects several of the markets. Hear of the radically new concepts such as flying submarines and autonomous underwater robots with their own decision making are now a realistic possibility. Which sectors are highly competitive and oversupplied and which niches look promising. Who makes a profit and why? Learn what vehicles that are needed over the coming decade. We even give an opinion about winning and losing vehicle and component manufacturers and their strategies.
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Leader Dr.Peter HarropChairman IDTechEx Ltd |
Speakers Amish Parashar - Vice President, ZuumCraft/ Driving Innovation: From EV Prototype to Production |
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A basic understanding of science and engineering is helpful to benefit fully from this technical Masterclass. It explains the types of hybrid electric vehicle and the types of pure electric vehicle with pros and cons and explains how they are converging in specification and what that means for batteries and other components such as ultracapacitors and supercabatteries. We look at other key components and the problems and opportunities posed by the way they behave. See how disruptive technologies are going to challenge the legacy thinking that a battery has to be a bulky lump of material with water cooling, because that shape overheats. See how the one big motor is also migrating to electric corner units and even in-wheel motors. Learn why circuit boards loaded with components will be replaced by printed electronics and electrics, including printed lighting and displays and fabric electronics. Question the legacy thinking that a hybrid has to have a conventional gasoline engine when monoblock custom mini ICE engines are leading to monoblock microturbines and learn the pros and cons. There will be a brief coverage of battery choices emerging and charging infrastructure from solar powered recharging stations to in-road inductive power transfer, electric cars becoming part of the super grid and other aspects. Biomimetics - copying nature - tells us to have solar panels opening like origami and the battery should be laminated over the whole vehicle - let us do some brainstorming together!
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Leader Dr.Harry ZervosTechnology Analyst IDTechEx Ltd |
Speakers Barrie Lawson - Chairman, Woodbank Communications/ The pitfalls in procuring EV batteries |
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This technical Masterclass examines the construction and pros and cons of batteries, flywheels, fuel cells, ultracapacitors, supercabatteries and other options, explaining how they work and what comes next. Because lithium batteries are going to be favorites for the next ten years we concentrate particularly on these. However, we do explain the problems of toxic materials, expensive materials and ones subject to price hikes for all popular forms of traction battery. We illustrate how some applications actually benefit from a heavy battery and some do not and we predict the market shares of the different battery technologies across the different types of vehicle. The increasingly popular geometries, chemistries etc are tracked.
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Leader Dr.Harry ZervosTechnology Analyst IDTechEx Ltd |
Speakers Mr John C Schaefer - Power of One Solar Car Project |
 Farouk Balouchi
Technology Analyst IDTechEx Ltd |
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Electric vehicles need to be more efficient and self sufficient. Harvesting heat, light, ultra violet, infra red and motion and turning them into electricity are part of this - even using that electricity to make hydrogen to power a traction fuel cell. This Masterclass gives technical explanations and predictions, right down to the options for flexible photovoltaics including transparent versions. Then there are the pros and cons of piezoelectric, magnetostrictive, electrodynamic, thermoelectric and other harvesting including in automotive MEMS. Eliminating wiring will be beneficial and wireless sensors and actuators will be part of this with local energy harvesting to give long life and cost saving. The ultimate wireless sensors form mesh networks like the internet that are self organising and self healing. However, having many nodes act as both tag and interrogator calls for quite a lot of electricity. How is harvesting getting better and electronics becoming more frugal in electricity consumption? What is becoming possible? This conference deals with these technical questions and any allied issues raised by the attendees.
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