Masterclasses
All your questions will be answered at our interactive optional Masterclasses, intended for audience participation and discussion - effectively interactive consultancy sessions, providing impartial analysis and comment.
The expert-led Masterclasses will provide you with in depth knowledge of the subject and attendees will have the opportunity to take away printed copies of presentations. These sessions will ensure you get the most from the conference.
Company tours will be arranged for Masterclasss attendees to nearby facilities where you will have the opportunity to see Electric Vehicles in action.
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 Leader Dr Peter HarropChairman IDTechEx Ltd |
Speakers Geoff Boyd, Managing Director, Coleridge Design Associates - The Magnet-Less Voice Coil Actuator: Extending the performance gains to rotation motors |
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
time bomb" 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 Pascal Chretien, Engineer, SYNPER 3 - Technology in Action: Developing hybrid helicopters |
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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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Dr Harry Zervos
