• CEO
• Managing Director
• Research & Development Director
• Electric Vehicle Programme Director
• Head of Hybrid Development
• Head of Energy Storage
• Chief Engineer
• Director of Government & Technical Affairs
• Director of Electrification

• CEO
• Managing Director
• Research & Development Director
• Head of Mechanical Engineering
• Chief Engineer
• Head of Safety & Testing
• Head Chemist

• Battery Management System Manufacturers
• Energy Management System Manufacturers
• Ultracapacitor and Supercapacitor Manufacturers
• Power Electronics Manufacturers
• Battery Testing House/Battery Testers and Cell Testing
• Battery and Cell Test Equipment Suppliers
• Safety Certification Bodies
• Flywheel Energy Storage Solution Providers
• Lithium-Ion Raw Material Suppliers
• Research & Development Centres/Technology Institutes

	DAY 1: DRAWING THE ROADMAP TO DELIVERING COST-EFFECTIVE EV BATTERY TECHNOLOGY
	DAY 2: TECHNICAL INNOVATIONS FOR MAXIMISING EV BATTERY PERFORMANCE IN A COST-EFFECTIVE WAY

• Discovering new opportunities for reducing the costs of EV battery technologies at every stage of production whilst improving durability, performance and safety
• Understanding the accelerated testing methodologies and finding the latest test data on EV batteries needed to get EVs to market
• Examining the future technologies and business models that will allow the commercialisation of EV batteries on a mass produced scale

• Understanding how OEMs plan to strike the optimal balance between the cost and performance of battery systems for different vehicle types including:
• Small / urban EVs
• Mass market hybrids
• Niche market luxury EVs
• Commercial EVs
• Examining different business models for creating a market for EVs with the compromises that must be made on cost and performance due to the battery
• Looking at innovative solutions for how cheaper batteries can be incorporated into new and inventive ways of marketing the vehicle to the consumer
• Evaluating the economics of battery leasing to determine whether it is a viable business model for commercialisation

• Examining the accelerated test methodologies being used to test the durability and life cycle at the component and cell level
• Understand what methodologies people are using to reduce the time needed to test quality and reliability at the component and cell level
• Going beyond the level of the cell to see how these methodologies can be applied to the battery system level to give the most reliable results for real life application
• Evaluating the reliability of accelerated testing methodologies for extrapolation to normal use

• Explaining the best methodologies for safety testing being done on large format EV high energy cells to help deliver the most relevant data
• Detailing what the latest test data on safety is saying and how it can be used to deliver more commercially viable EV battery systems.
• Going beyond safety testing at the cell level to get an understanding of the most up to date data and methodologies for testing safety at the battery system level
• Get an understanding of the best data on what happens to the battery in the event of vehicle failure to understand how this risk could be managed in the most commercially viable way

• Understanding the costs that go into processing the raw materials into a value added product to get a forecast of how quickly they will fall in the future
• Find out what needs to be done to the raw materials powders in order for them to be optimised for the battery and how these processes can be improved
• Explaining what factory level processes affect the life cycle of the end product to find opportunities for cost-reduction through increased factory efficiency
• Finding ways of speeding up the path from raw material extraction to ultimate product development

• Analysing the cost trends for different cathode materials in order to find ways to reduce the cost of the Li-ion battery system at the level of the cell chemistry
• Focusing on
• Manganese Oxide Spinel
• Nickel Manganese Cobalt
• Nickel Cobalt Aluminium
• Iron Phosphate
• Evaluating each chemistry on the criteria of energy density, durability, safety and charge rates to judge which ones offer the most high performance solutions

• Looking beyond the cathode at how other cell-level innovations can drive down the cost of EV batteries
• Determining how emerging anode chemistries can be part of a more cost-effective solution
• Understanding how the latest developments in separator technology can contribute to a cheaper cell
• Looking at the viability of electrolytes such as Lithium Polymer for reducing cost

• Cooling System: Explaining how innovations to the cooling system can deliver more cost-effective energy storage solutions for Electric Vehicles
• Communication System: Determining ways to monitor safety and communicate with the vehicle in more cost-effective ways
• Battery Management System: Understanding how future innovations to the BMS will be able to deliver lower costs and how car manufacturers can anticipate this in the design of their vehicles
• Energy Management System: Looking beyond the BMS for cost reduction opportunities in the energy management system
• Power Electronics:  Evaluating how innovations at the level of the power electronics can contribute to a more cost effective energy storage solution

• Explaining innovations that can be made to the vehicle to overcome the unique challenges of using Li-ion batteries for automotive application
• Finding ways to reduce the costs of the components that link the battery system to the car
• Understand what can be done to the vehicle to make the battery system work in a more reliable way
• Explaining what data OEMs need from cell and other component manufacturers in order to develop more cost-effective ways of integrating the battery system into the vehicle

• Discovering new opportunities for reducing the costs of EV battery technologies at every stage of production whilst improving durability, performance and safety
• Understanding the accelerated testing methodologies and finding the latest test data on EV batteries needed to get EVs to market
• Examining the future technologies and business models that will allow the commercialisation of EV batteries on a mass produced scale

• Explaining what governmental regulations are planned for the future that is specific to EV battery technology and how the automotive industry can plan ahead for it
• Detailing how governments will develop its policy on end of life recycling and disposal and what responsibilities this will put on vehicle manufacturers
• Determining the role of government regulation in setting safety and performance standards for EV batteries and what these regulations will look like
• Understanding what governments plan to do to support the commercialisation of EV battery technology and how the automotive industry can benefit

• Case Study 1: Extending The Life Cycle Of Commercial Vehicles

• Case Study 2: Extending The Life Cycle Of Mass Market Electric Vehicles

  Joe LoGrasso, Global Battery System Engineering Manager, General              Motors

• Case Study 3: Extending The Life Cycle Of Niche Market, High End Luxury Vehicles

  Iain Sanderson, CEO, Lightning Car Company

• Case Study 4: Extending The Life Cycle Of Urban Passenger Vehicles

  Gerhard Swart, CTO, Optimal Energy

• Case Study 5: A Battery Manufacturer’s Perspective On Extending The Life Cycle Of EV Batteries

• Understanding how technical innovations in EV motor technology can be translated into cost reduction opportunities for electric vehicles

• Examining technical solutions for reducing the weight of the vehicle in order to increase energy efficiency and drive down costs

• Analysing the latest data on the durability of fast charge batteries to decipher whether the increased energy throughput damages its lifetime
• Getting a cost trajectory of how long it will be until the cost of fast charge batteries will be comparable to that of Phase 1 and 2 batteries
• Determining what the charging infrastructure would have to look like for fast charge batteries in order to discover whether it would be practically implementable
• Understanding how far away fast charge batteries are from being a commercially viable solution

• Explaining what end of life applications can be made to EV batteries to offset the cost
• Understanding how to capitalise on the growing market for second-life Lithium-ion batteries
• Looking at the application of end of life Lithium-ion batteries to the renewable energy sector to contribute further to improving the environment whilst offsetting costs at the same time
• Examining the possible uses of an EV battery’s second life in back-up power supplies, uninterruptible power supplies and load leveling for the electricity grid

• Evaluating emerging cell chemistries such as lithium air and zinc air to determine whether they will offer a commercially viable solution to improving the performance and lowering the cost of EV batteries
• Getting a consensus on how far away they are from commercial application
• Understanding how these technologies may contribute to a more durable and higher energy density EV battery solution
• Looking at the remaining challenges of bringing them into the mainstream and what the automotive industry can do to help overcome these challenges

• Getting an overview on the progress being made on inductive charging for application to EV batteries
• Providing an understanding of the practicalities of how inductive charging would work for EVs
• Examining the costs of inductive charging and getting a forecast as to when and how the costs will decrease
• Providing a view from the energy companies on how far away inductive charging is from commercial application