MAIN DAY ONE | WEDNESDAY, 28TH SEPTEMBER, 2022

This is the hottest period for batteries and for BMS. The industry is going through a second wave, where companies are coming up with new ideas that are both technically innovative idea and cost optimised.

For the majority of EV companies, the biggest challenge is keeping all kinds of costs low, including battery, material, and recycling costs. But this is easier said than done with constrained supply chains and the uncertain geopolitical situation.

• This opening cost-optimisation focused keynote presentation looks at actual practical steps to keep costs low while continuing to push the envelope from a technological advancement point of view.

9:10AM Question & Answer Session

Onur Yılmaz

Electrified Powertrain BMS SW Engineer
Ford Otosan

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This keynote presentation takes a deep dive look at the BMS Design and Architecture for Battery Electric Vehicles with a focus on the following main topics:

• Holistic view of battery system and BMS: impact of BMS on various battery attributes and need of co-design and optimization
• Present BMS Technology: - BMS design and architecture with focus on flexibility and modularity - BMS functionality with focus on optimal usage to improve performance, safety, and lifetime - Needs of multi-level battery controls, cloud-BMS, standards and regulations
• Future BMS Technology: - Next-generation BMS with focus on new architectures - Predictive and adaptive functions/features - Optimal lifecycle management

9:55AM Question & Answer Session

Faisal Altaf

Chief Engineer / Chief Architect - ESS Functions and BMS
Volvo Group

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• Challenges in sodium-ion battery, aluminium battery or any other technologies which carry from lithium-ion
• Limitations from an energy density, range and power capability point of view

Moderated by Dr Kamel Azzouz, Technical Head of Research & Innovation (Thermal Powertrain), Valeo

This technical presentation takes a deep dive look at different types of architectures, with the presenter zeroing on:

• Implications of system and battery architecture and design
• Interpreting customer requirements and managing expectations
• Determining the necessary compromises when designing the battery pack
• Present day supply chain issues, and limitations of battery architecture 

11:40AM Question & Answer Session

Angus Lyon

Director
Rockfort Engineering Limited

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EV production is ramping up, and the geopolitical situation is unpredictable. China is continuing to dominate the upstream materials and commodity market. While Europe wants to become independent and leverage recycling as a way to produce raw materials, the infrastructure is currently not in place. Until Europe reaches the point of having a circular economy, we will be heavily dependent on China. On top of that, material costs are increasing. If the costs rise any more, and if the supply chain bottlenecks don’t ease, EV manufacturers and manufacturing will be seriously affected.

This keynote panel discussion tackles this mission-critical topic, with experts discussing:

• Approaches for securing raw materials, commodities and cells at the best prices
• How the current supply chain issues will impact the OEM’s decision on which chemistry to select

12:20PM Question & Answer Session

Sascha Ewert

Head of Non Ferrous Metals
thyssenkrupp

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Scott Yarham

Global Lead, Battery Metals
S&P Global

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Lithium-ion batteries at low temperatures have slow recharge times alongside reduced available power and energy. Battery heating is an effective way to address this issue, and many methods have been proposed, however, there are a lack of studies quantitatively comparing methods rather than qualitatively. Indeed, it is complicated to make a fair quantitative comparison due to the existence of many different batteries with different heating parameters. This presentation will start making a qualitative review of all existing methods and then will introduce a new universal comparison indicator for a quantitative review of heating methods, so called the heating triangle.

2:10PM Question & Answer Session

Jorge Varela Barreras

Senior Researcher in Battery Modelling
Imperial College/CTAG

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For some OEMs, the biggest concern is battery sizing. Establishing a good trade-off between size, performance, volume and weight and selecting the right battery for your application is the focus of this roundtable discussion.

What will be discussed:

• Learn how to make the right selection considering cost and ecology
• Learn how to find the trade-off between performance and size of the battery
• How to balance weight and volume when selecting the right battery for your application
• How range factors into the battery selection decision

Moderated by Dr Kamel Azzouz, Technical Head of Research & Innovation (Thermal Powertrain), Valeo

• How to protect batteries from going into thermal runaway
• Measures to increase thermal efficiency and thermal stability of the cells
• Using wireless communication to detect thermal failures
• Future developments in thermal management and composite material safety

4:05PM Question & Answer Session

Dr. Kamel Azzouz

Head of Research & Innovation (Thermal Powertrain)
Valeo

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Patrick Handritschk

Technical Development Team Leader
Continental

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Angus Lyon

Director
Rockfort Engineering Limited

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