General Motors believes in an all-electric future with zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero congestion. GM plans to launch 30 new all-electric vehicles by 2025, leveraging the innovative Ultium Platform, GM’s next-generation BEV architecture. Mr. Oury will discuss key technical features of the Ultium Platform and how its flexibility can power electric vehicles across wide-ranging segments, from performance vehicles to mid-size SUVs and the world’s first all-electric super-truck.

Historically, the core consumer requirement met by electrified vehicles was improved vehicle fuel economy and/or an all-electric driving range. Now as electrified vehicles represent a broad range of vehicle types and customers (retail and commercial), electrified vehicles support many additional customer features made possible through electrification. Consequently, the battery is expected to support these desired customer features – all of which add to the usage of the high-voltage battery. This presentation will further explain these different features and their impact on the battery using examples from various types of electrified vehicles.

Dramatic capacity increases and increasing cost pressure are the main challenges for cell manufacturers to be successful on the global market. To succeed in this market environment, a progressive industrialization strategy as well as an intelligent cost reduction strategy are required.

Sion Power has focused efforts on the development of Licerion-EV, a cell design geared explicitly towards meeting and exceeding automotive requirements for next-generation cell technology. Licerion-EV has gone beyond the lab and into commercial-sized cells focusing on automotive industry requirements for the next-generation electric vehicles.

Launching a new EV is a high-stakes game, where any problems encountered during development can jeopardize ship dates. We’ll walk through each stage of EV pack development and highlight how an integrated Battery Intelligence platform can drive an on-time launch, while ensuring quality and traceability throughout the vehicle lifecycle.

Honda had conducted a number of VGI research programs in the past. We are shifting gears to launch commercial energy services globally. In this presentation, we would like to update the audience following Honda’s VGI pilot and commercial programs. Including Honda's SmartCharge beta program started in 2021, V2G demonstration project in 2019 with Nuvve at the University of California San Diego campus, supported by California Energy Commission, OVGIP (Open Vehicle Grid Integration Platform) program, Honda participated as one of the core OEMs and Honda e:PROGRESS program, the first commercial energy management service with dynamic energy tariff for EV owners in UK.

The emergence of electric vehicles has intensified the demands of the low-voltage power net and redefined the role of the 12V battery. Enhanced levels of vehicle autonomy have driven the 12V battery to become a critical safety component providing redundancy and drive support. This talk will explore the shifting requirements of 12V batteries in xEV and autonomous platforms and the future of low voltage battery technology.

Enevate is a battery technology company supplying breakthrough technologies to the battery industry. Its pure silicon-dominant Li-ion cells designed with its own electrolyte and cell designs allow for unique properties including extreme fast charge while increasing high energy density, wide temperature operation, safety, and potential for reduced cost. Technical developments, cell operation and design principles, and sustainability updates will be given.

Range anxiety is a key reason that consumers are reluctant to embrace electric vehicles (EVs). To be truly competitive with gasoline vehicles, EVs should allow drivers to recharge quickly anywhere in any weather, like refueling gasoline cars. However, none of today’s EVs allow fast charging in cold or even cool temperatures due to the risk of lithium plating, the formation of metallic lithium that drastically reduces battery life and even results in safety hazards. Here, we present an approach that enables 15-minute fast charging of Li-ion batteries in any temperatures (even at -50 °C) while still preserving remarkable cycle life.

Qnovo intelligent battery management software delivers an exceptional experience to next-generation electric vehicles that do not require battery compromises. Improved safety, all-weather superfast charging, longer driving range, extended warranty, predictive maintenance, and predictive analytics come standard. In this presentation, we share lessons learned to scale adaptive charging solutions to large form-factor multi-cell packs used in EVs.

In the past decade the automotive industry has seen traction battery energy density nearly triple and cost per kiloWatthour drop by 90%.  It would be comforting to believe that such trends will continue, but there are certain limitations becoming evident to the development of future batteries.  We explore what progress remains practically available to traction batteries and contrast potential future developmental pathways, when the vehicle and customer are put forward, as the priority.

As EV demand growing, the industry is seeking the next generation battery and solid state battery is considered the most promising one due to high safety, high energy density and low cost advantages. In this talk, ProLogium will highlight its enabling solid state battery technology progress, competitiveness with peers and the omni solution for commercializing EV application.

The aim is to validate that using second-life EV batteries in BESS for PV and storage systems for small/medium-sized commercial buildings will reduce the overall cost over serviceable life compared to using new batteries. To achieve this, we are conducting thorough multi-scale analysis and modeling of the second-life EV battery aging process and building degradation models, accordingly developing optimized energy management strategy considering PV and load profiles, and building customized electrical and control systems for site pilot testing. Downscaled lab test benches for electrical and control systems and battery cycling lab test systems are established in San Diego State University.