Plenary Session Choice 1
Vehicle Electrification
Chair, Mr. Daniel M Hancock
GM Powertrain
Mr. J. E. 'Ted' Robertson
Magna International
Ing. Maurizio Cisternino
GM Powertrain Europe
Dr. James H. Miners
The Dow Chemical Company
Mr. Konstantin Neiss
Daimler AG
Given the challenges of petroleum dependency and atmospheric greenhouse gas, there has been a rapid increase in a broad spectrum of approaches toward electrifying vehicle propulsion systems. Systems ranging from simple start-stop to mild and strong hybrids, to range extended electrics, to full battery electrics, and even to fuel cell electrics are rapidly appearing in almost every OEM's current and future vehicle portfolio.
While the technical challenges alone are significant, there are also questions regarding supply base development, electrical grid capability, government incentives for development and facilitization, customer acceptance, recycling, and many others. This plenary session will provide perspectives on these emerging systems, the principle components and their developmental challenges, and how we will see this most significant transformation in vehicle propulsion evolving over the next few years. Panelist presentations will include new systems being readied for the marketplace. The importance of collaboration between OEM's and suppliers, academia, and governments will be discussed in the following panel discussion.
Plenary Session Choice 2
Commercial Vehicles
Chair, Dr. László Palkovics
Budapest University of Technology
Dr.-Ing. Eduard Gerum,
Dr. Jurgen Steinberger
Knorr-Bremse AG
Prof. -Ing E-C von Glasner
EVU
Prof. Franf X. Moser
AVL List GmbH
Dr Christoph Brenner
Magna Powertrain
This session concentrates on several issues facing future commercial vehicle design. Road transportation will play as an important role in the future as it does today, thus the main characteristics of commercial vehicles must be kept as close as possible to those of passenger cars. This means that the driving dynamics, traffic safety, the environmental impact of the heavy vehicle must be further improved. The contributions in this session will address the special problems of passive/active safety, powertrain and the engine from the leading experts in this field.