Day Three | Thursday 24th October 2024

PRESENTATION, DISCUSSIONS & DIALOGUES ON:

1) MAKING BETTER BATTERY PACKS THAT ARE MORE EFFICIENT, DESIGNED TO RESIST THERMAL RUNAWAY AND DELIVER HIGH PERFORMANCE

2) PATHWAYS & FUTURE BATTERY PACK DESIGN TRENDS

3) LATEST & GREATEST CELL CHEMISTRIES THAT IS GOING TO GIVE THE INDUSTRY THE NEXT LEAP IN ENERGY DENSITY

4) GROUND-BREAKING IMPROVEMENTS IN BATTERY TECHNOLOGIES THAT ARE MORE COST-COMPETITIVE, SAFE, SUSTAINABLE & ENERGY DENSE

5) SOLID-STATE BATTERY TECHNOLOGY: REAL RESULTS, PERFORMANCE & TECHNICAL CHALLENGES

6) WHAT WILL BE THE NEXT STEP FOR THE INDUSTRY AS WE LOOK BEYOND LFP BATTERIES?

7) SCOPING THE BATTERY RECYCLING MARKET

8) OEM PLANS FOR THE THREE R’S; RE-USE, RE-MANUFACTURE AND RE-CYCLE

9) EUROPEAN BATTERY SUPPLIER PLANS TO FULFIL CELL & BATTERY PACK SUPPLY IN LIGHT OF NEW/UPCOMING REGULATIONS

8:00 - 8:50 REGISTRATION & REFRESHMENTS

8:50 - 9:00 CHAIRPERSON’S OPENING REMARKS

9:00 - 9:40 THERMAL MANAGEMENT APPROACHES ARE CHANGING. WHAT IS THE OEM & TIER-1 COMPANIES’ CURRENT APPROACH FOR BATTERY THERMAL MANAGEMENT?

OEM & TIER-1 PANEL DISCUSSION

  • Find out how thermal management approaches have evolved in the last twelve months. Have companies made small changes or big changes?
  • Understand the thinking that went into determining which option to choose when presented with three different choices i.e. air cooling, spray cooling or immersing cooling.
  • Learn the latest thermal management techniques being employed right now and how they are aligned with battery chemistry.
  • Find out what thermal runaway protocol is being used to quantity efficiency and control thermal runaway incidents.
  • Commenting on what the future roadmap looks like in terms of heat dissipation and cooling needs. 

9:40 - 10:20 PRACTICAL MEASURES TO OPTIMISE BATTERY PACK THERMAL MANAGEMENT, MAKE IT MORE INTELLIGENT & MINIMISE RISK OF THERMAL RUNAWAY

  • Find out what practical steps can be taken to understand battery cells better and optimise thermal management strategy.
  • Learn ways to apply thermal management at the design stage and on the software level to minimise risk of thermal runaway.
  • Learn how to quickly understand when a thermal event is going to occur.
  • Understand how the battery type you have, the stage of charge, and scenarios you encounter can impact the likelihood of a thermal runaway event. 

10:20 - 10:50 IMMERSION COOLING FOR BATTERY PACKS

  • Learn about the latest developments in immersive cooling technology for battery packs.
  • Discover how immersive cooling is used to manage the increased heat, maintain battery life, and enhance safety without increasing the size of the pack.
  • Uncover novel battery system testing methods to validate the safety and performance of new emerging cooling systems.
  • Discuss where we are when it comes to immersive cooling. How far away is it from the mainstream, and to what extent have the safety issues been resolved?
  • Learn how far we have to go in resolving the safety issues related to immersive cooling. 

10:50 - 11:30 MORNING COFFEE BREAK & NETWORKING WITH TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS

11:30 - 12:10 AI-BASE CHARACTERISATION AND OPTIMAL REGROUPING OF SECOND-LIFE BATTERIES

Mona Faraji Niri - Associate Professor, University of Warwick

BATTERY REPURPOSING AND RE-USE

  • Hear a complete techno-economic analysis of second life batteries, from people that are actively working on battery repurposing.
  • Determine what areas we can use second-life batteries and what will be the efficiency of utilising this energy elsewhere.
  • Establish how safe it is to utilise reused or reduced-life batteries.
  • Address the challenge of achieving a unified format for second-life batteries – not all batteries are the same.
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Mona Faraji Niri

Associate Professor
University of Warwick

12:10 - 12:40 BATTERY RECYCLING: ECONOMICS, YIELDS & CARBON FOOTPRINT OF DIFFERENT PROCESSES

  • Understand the economics of pyrometallurgical vs. hydrometallurgical recycling processes.
  • Determine exactly what sort of yield you achieve and advantages of battery recycling.
  • Establishing the climate impact and carbon footprint of each process.
  • Sharing data on who’s doing what right now and how much success they are seeing.

12:40 - 13:00 END-OF-LIFE SOLUTIONS; HOW EFFICIENTLY CAN BATTERIES BE UTILISED AFTER THE END OF LIFE?

OPEN AUDIENCE DISCUSSION

13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH BREAK & NETWORKING WITH TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS

14:00 - 14:30 BATTERY AGING PREDICTION & MODELLING

  • Understand the importance of taking the ageing characteristic into consideration during the product development stage.
  • Learn how to test in labs to better understand ageing and lifetime of batteries to optimise control strategies.
  • Learn how to integrate aging-based studies into products during the product development stage. 

14:30 - 15:10 LEVERAGING BATTERY DATA TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE, LIFETIME & DESIGN

PRESENTATION FOCUSING ON DIGITALISATION OF BMS

  • Learn what battery data can be collected, and how it is stored and transported securely.
  • Hear how to condense and convert data into usable metrics to understand battery performance.
  • Using driving behaviour and charging pattern data to optimise battery lifetime.
  • Discover how live data from vehicles can be used to improve battery attributes and engineering designs.
  • Understand the benefits of chip, cloud BMS, and digital twin applications.

15:10 - 15:30 COMFORT BREAK & FINAL OPPORTUNITY TO NETWORK WITH TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS

15:30 - 16:00 ADVANCES IN DC-DC FAST CHARGING

PRESENTATION PROVIDING INSIGHTS FROM A LEADING EV CHARGING SUPPLIER

OEMs are looking for charging infrastructure to take a battery from a 10% to 80% charge in 10-12 minutes, without increasing battery degradation. Fast and ultra-fast charging is known to be more detrimental to battery life, and it’s a challenge requiring significant levels of engineering effort to date.

Hear from a leading fast-charging provider, as they discuss:

  • Key enablers for fast charging capabilities.
  • Meeting fast and ultra-fast charging requirements whilst maintaining battery lifetime.
  • Adjustments needed to ensure optimum performance in different climate conditions.
  • Explore cooling requirements of batteries and cables for fast charging – is it really needed?

16:00 - 16:30 INDUSTRY PLANS FOR MORE CHARGING STATIONS

DISCUSSION ON FUTURE POLICIES & STANDARDS

DC-DC fast-charging columns allow for shorter charging times, but they are scarcely available. Whilst fast-charging technology is ready to be applied, the industry faces delays from policymakers to ensure the infrastructure is in place.

  • Understand what plans are in place from an infrastructure point of view for charging stations.
  • Insight into European standardisation of charging sockets.
  • Learn how extreme temperatures impact fast-charge ability and how to manage this challenge.

16:30 - 16:40 CHAIRPERSON’S CLOSING REMARKS

16:40 - 16:40 END OF #EVBATTERYTECH2024