Day Two | Wednesday 23rd October 2024

KEYNOTE PANEL DISCUSSION

Right now, the target for OEMs is to reduce the price of the EV, while improving efficiency, having higher autonomy, and delivering ultra-fast charging capabilities. Charging targets are much higher than ever before; OEMs are looking for a 10% charge to 80% charge in 10-12 minutes. Ultimately, buyer decisions are down to charging time and range. What the end user is seeing is ‘How many kilometres can I drive and how long does it take to recharge the vehicle?’.

How quickly a vehicle charges and how far it goes on one charge is down to the battery’s power density and weight. You can put a larger battery in a vehicle, but that will jeopardise weight and cost. You can find a higher energy density in different cell chemistries, but you then need to enhance your thermal management system and safety system to make the device safe and working under all conditions. This will also add cost.

While batteries have not yet reached their theoretical limits with respect to energy densities, and making sure batteries remain light and more energy-dense is a high priority, OEMs are facing a real conundrum. This is a tricky trade-off triangle.

• This panel of experts will address this big issue and share what their companies are doing to cope with end-user demand, and how they are finding the optimal balance between cost, power density, weight, charging time and range. 

Max Reid

Principal Analyst, EV & Battery Supply Chain
Wood Mackenzie

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Angus Lyon

Director
Rockfort Engineering Limited

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PANEL DISCUSSION FOCUSING ON STRIKING THE BALANCE BETWEEN THE INDUSTRY’S BIGGEST DRIVERS

The automotive industry wants to optimise the cost of the battery, with it being the highest-cost component of EVs, but safety is critical and cannot be compromised. It’s imperative the industry finds the optimal balance between reducing costs while increasing performance and safety.

Join this keynote panel discussion as leading experts share practical insights on:

• Realising efficiency, safety and performance goals without increasing costs.
• Optimising battery pack cost, safety, and energy efficiency.
• How improving manufacturing and engineering design can reduce cost.
• Assessing safety and cost-effectiveness of new battery technologies – how does this compare to current technologies?
• Economic, safety, and reliability concerns of repurposed and second-life batteries. 

OPEN AUDIENCE DISCUSSION

• Understand what efficiency improvements have been made in the latest lithium-ion batteries.
• Determine the extent to which the classic challenge of thermal runaway has been overcome.
• Sharing key takeaways to apply directly in products right now, and realise efficiency, safety and performance goals.

Dr. Emre Özgül

Supervisor - Engine Performance & Energy Management
Ford Otosan

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The only way battery electric vehicles can compete with hydrogen technologies is through widespread use of solid-state batteries. This presentation looks at concrete results from the application of solid-state batteries, led by a company that believes solid-state batteries sodium-ion batteries will be real and ready for use in the near future.

• Sharing proof of research to demonstrate the potential of solid-state batteries to enhance efficiency and positively impact manufacturing lines.
• Assess enhancement of energy density and increase in the DTI in batteries.
• Find out what measures are being taken to overcome scalability, manufacturability and cost-based challenges. 

OPEN AUDIENCE DISCUSSION

ESTABLISHING CHEMISTRIES THAT DELIVER HIGHER ENERGY DENSITY, IMPROVE RANGE & SAFETY, AND OPTIMISE BATTERY PACK CONCEPT

• Latest statistics and data for the different cell chemistries – comparing range, energy density, and pros and cons.
• Comparing safety parameters between different types of chemistry cells – which one is more reliable?
• Delve into the widely discussed idea of cutting cobalt levels on the NMC chemistry.
• Understand how companies are choosing different chemistries right now – what other parameters are they keeping in mind besides range, energy density and safety?
• Find out if sodium is expected to replace cell demand. 

AUDIENCE DISCUSSION

• Cost is a key driver – how much can we bring cell chemistry costs down?
• Supply of raw materials is another big challenge – how is the industry addressing this and what do their supply chains look like? Are they fully dependent on the Chinese market?
• With Europe not having mines available at a volume that is comparable to China, how will we address this challenge of raw material availability? 

PANEL DISCUSSION

• Sharing different roadmaps for battery chemistries in Europe, the US, and Asia – understand why roadmaps differ and how parameters such as efficiency, autonomy, cost and safety influence these roadmaps.
• Hear experiences from OEMs on where they are right now with their battery chemistry, where they would like to go, and why.
• Hear evidence-based perspectives on why different OEMs are choosing a certain technology vs. another.
• Debating how the strategy of European OEMs is different to a US OEM vs. an Asian OEM. How big a role does raw material availability play in shaping this strategy?
• Hear worldwide views on how OEMs plan to have autonomy on battery manufacturing. 

• Understand the status of battery passports – how far along is the development of digital passports for batteries?
• Find out how digital passports will impact plants and facilities, where they will fit into that process and impact the manufacturing cycle.
• Understand the effect of battery passports on specific areas such as passenger cars, HEV trucks etc., and what OEMs need to do to ensure that they are fulfilling all legislation-based requirements.
• Quantify the impact of battery passports on second-life.

Johannes Simböck

Team Lead Battery Pass
acatech

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Right now, data is more or less owned and hermetically sealed towards the OEM. However, with the idea of a battery passport, data will somehow need to be open to everybody in the value chain that is interested. And it will need to be collected across the entire chain.

• This presentation shed light on how data will be shared and managed across the value chain, how it will be used and what information can/will be stored once digital passports become mandatory in Europe.