California now has regulations in place to transition transit and shuttle buses and on-road trucks to zero-emission. What’s next? What are we learning and what more can we learn as these policies are implemented in real-time? This talk will include policy and regulatory drivers, incentive programs available to support the zero-emission transition, and the important role of government agencies, utilities, and private stakeholders in ensuring successful vehicle deployments.

Embark on a dynamic exploration of the emerging EV transition sector, revealing its precision in delivering power where infrastructure is demanded. Delve into the complexities of where, what, and when, discovering the daily unfolding 'hows' that form the building blocks of a scalable future. Uptime, security, and health take center stage in this transformative journey, shaping the path toward a sustainable and resilient commercial fleet transition.

Early electric trucks have relied on charging infrastructure designed for light-duty vehicles, but more powerful standards like MCS are ready for commercialisation offering DC fast-charging up to 3.75 megawatts. Wired stationary charging is the dominant technology, but alternatives like wireless charging and battery swapping can further reduce downtimes. This presentation will cover the current and future market landscape for electric fleet charging technology.

Core States Energy will overview our field-proven design-build checklist of best practices to help navigate the way toward cleaner solutions. We will explore the implications of converting fleets and outline critical real estate impacts, cost considerations, and map out best practices to steer a clear path toward a successful fleet transition.

Battery Electric Trucks are an important part of Daimler Trucks strategy to reduce GHG emissions. Daimler Truck has proven with a number of projects and products on a global scale how capable these electric trucks can be. This presentation will investigate the unique challenges for the electrification of heavy duty vehicles with a special focus on the need for a truckified cell.

Battery performance requirements for heavy-duty trucks are primarily derived from the category of use of the truck, and the work demand of the daily mission in the context of the charging environment. Existing low-cost battery technologies, including improvements thereon, can be an effective solution to many use-categories, even in the context of limited charging infrastructure. For the more demanding daily missions, either significantly higher specific energy batteries, or ubiquitous charging is required. Here, we provide a hypothesis on battery technologies for heavy-duty trucks operating in an environment of ubiquitous megawatt charging in USA.

For many heavy-duty applications, batteries must deliver very high-power discharge capability and a very large number of charge-discharge cycles.  The IDEAL battery would provide these attributes and would also be capable of incredibly fast charge with minimal heat release, allowing almost constant up-time.  Nyobolt is commercializing battery technology with the capability of fully charging in 5-10 minutes or less, with outstanding cycle life, for mining and material handling/robotic applications.

Applications such as intralogistics, mining, or forestry vehicles are difficult to electrify due to their long operation time of up to 7000h/year. These applications require fast-charging batteries with long cycle lifetime. Skeleton Technologies' Superbattery technology can be charged in 60 seconds and presents a lifetime of 50,000 cycles. This presentation presents the Superbattery technology and covers real-life use cases in which fast charging is required. Fast charging will play a significant role in global electrification, safety and sustainability as overlooked properties, high-power and long lifetime as a large niches in electrification.

This presentation will cover our work on designing our port projects and technologies for the southern California port system.

The future of commercial vehicles is being shaped by electrification and digitalization, bringing in a new set of requirements and applications in battery technology. This shift necessitates a seamless integration of both high and low-voltage energy storage systems to meet the evolving demands of commercial vehicles. While existing battery chemistries have proven successful meeting demand, new technologies are being evaluated for future commercialization. Explore the vital role of essential low-voltage battery systems as key enablers in electrifying commercial vehicles.

Heavy-duty applications are highly utilized, resulting in advanced requirements in lifetime and power for the low-voltage energy storage and the power distribution. This talk displays the challenges and proposed solutions for future low-voltage systems. The focus is on safety-critical subsystems, which need a redundant power supply.

Introducing a revolutionary advancement in power electronics—the Exro Coil Driver. This innovative solution combines the functionalities of a traction inverter and an onboard charger, simplifying powertrain design while reducing overall costs. It enables integrated AC fast-charging capabilities, significantly reducing CAPEX and OPEX requirements for building and operating fleet charging depots. It also improves the performance and efficiency of the drive unit, all through innovations in power electronics.

Understanding the state of health (SOH) of the batteries is critical to enable second-life use. Various techniques are being developed for a fast estimation of SOH, including EIS, as well as acoustic impedance. We have built a BESS consisting of second-life batteries from used LFP batteries, that is currently deployed at the charging station at the Everett Transit Center. Learnings from the data collected from a real-world deployment of a BESS consisting of second-life batteries will be presented.