Agenda 2023

• Evolution of shift systems and the transition to EV Drivetrains
• Challenges and needs for next generation EV Drivetrain systems
• New powershift technology with integrated one-way-clutch functionality
• New multi-functional torque management systems for disconnect and multi-speed shifting

John Jennings, Director Innvoation & eMobility, Amsted Automotive, USA

• Improving thermal management with APTIV film slot liners
• Enhancing reliability, efficiency and design freedom with PEEK magnet wire insulation
• PEEK Bearing Insulation addressing key performance and cost requirements in small or large bearings

Colin Rimmer, Strategic Technology Manager Transport / E-Mobility, Victrex, UK

• Collaboration and alignment of engineering and sustainability targets at early R&D design stage
• Single- vs. multi-speed EV TM: Balancing cost and performance optimization while addressing system complexity and energy consumption
• PM vs. Externally Excited: Cost vs performance vs sustainability of materials
• IGBT vs. SiC Inverters: The cost of not taking the system perspective in sub-component make vs. buy decisions

Bence Falvy, CTO, ZeBeyond Ltd., UK

• The technical and economic backbone of Volkswagen’s electric offensive is the modular electric drive matrix (MEB)
• The platform which makes EVs accessible for as many customers as possible
• The latest development of the MEB platform is the “Performance” drive, which will be used in vehicles with high performance requirements

Dr. Jens Böhl, Head of Department Electric Drives, Volkswagen AG Wolfsburg, Germany and
Dr Andreas Schmidt, Head of Department Development Drive Modules, Volkswagen Group Components Kassel, Germany

• ORA Lightning Cat: Super-streamlined pure electric coupe
• Deep dive GWM’s innovative pure Electric Vehicle Powertrain architecture
• GWM lemon platform with GEEP
• ORA V2X for intelligent transportation

Rolf Albrecht, Chief Engineer BEV Powertrain System Design, Great Wall Motors, P.R. China

• Best configuration for BEV in terms of Efficiency and Performance
• Comparison of energy flow in different driving cycles
• E-Motor operation map shaping for best system performance

Dr Jörg Gindele, Senior Director, Business Expansion & Transformation, Magna Powertrain International GmbH, Germany

• Presentation of the dual-rotor, radial-flux motor technology and its specific advantages
• Electric drive units and their application in RWD, FWD or AWD electric vehicles
• Existing prototypes and measurement data
• Impact on vehicle-platforms in terms of TCO, weight and space

Alexander Rosen, Co-Founder and System Engineer, DeepDrive, Germany

• Method overview: how to build a e-axle family strategy
• Family strategy definition
• Premium Segments: Key Enabling Technologies
• Conclusion: Marelli’s e-axle portfolio

Matthieu Rihn, Head of Component Kit Design, Marelli EPT Strasbourg SAS, France

• High power density electric machine
• Interior permanent magnet motor
• Carbon fiber rotor
• X-pin flat wire technology

Dr Håkan Sandquist, Director Propulsion Hardware and System, InfiMotion Technology Europe AB, Sweden

• Eliminates brushes, with resonant inductive power transfer
• Enhanced oil cooling-at-the-source
• More compact, with higher level of integration

Bernhard Schmitt, Global Engineering Director, Electric Motors, BorgWarner, Germany

• I²SM with magnet-free machine topology and contactless rotor excitation
• Friction-free and highly integrated rotor supply with rotor oil cooling
• High efficiency and power densities through system optimisation tools
• Size and CO₂ footprint reduction

Dr Joao Bonifacio, Manager System Development, ZF Friedrichshafen AG, Germany

• Development and validation of next generation e-motor cooling methods
• Performance assessment of advanced cooled e-motors
• Comparison of e-motor cooling technology

Steven Vanhee, Senior Thermal System Engineer, Dana Inc., Belgium

• Step to 800V system with EESM drive train
• System optimisation with focus on long range driving
• Drivetrain family approach – impact on design decisions

Carsten Siepker, Electrotechnic Engineer P3 Projects, Valeo eAutomotive Germany GmbH, Germany and
Anthony Gimeno, Electric Motors Engineer, Renault, France

• Exploring the global trends for e-motor and inverter technology
• How important will the supply chain be in future years?
• What challenges is the e-motor facing?

Michael Southcott, Manager, S&P Global, UK

• Development of a global traction e-motor demand model
• Derivation of raw material demands for different scenarios
• Analysis of potential material shortages
• Technology and supply chain recommendations

Simon Noll, Consultant E-Mobility, P3 automotive GmbH, Germany

• From company carbon footprint to product carbon footprint
• From product carbon footprint to action plan
• From low emission material to circular economy with design for environnement

Jean-François Giroux, R&D Decarbonisation Director, Valeo, France

• Where is copper used in new energy technologies? Is there enough copper?
• What are present and future GHG emissions of copper?
• How does copper recycling work? How much recycled copper content can it exist?
• How can induction motor innovations respond to the e-mobility needs?

Fernando Nuno, Clean Energy Transition Programme Manager, International Copper Association, Belgium

• Data collected in manufacturing process and transmission lifetime
• From data to information – AI ready infrastructure
• Insights through dashboards to support decision making process

Jens Saberi, Senior Manager Software Systems Solutions, Magna Powertrain International GmbH, Germany

• High efficient BEV / FCEV powertrain
• Compact central drive unit
• High continues power with state of the art cooling
• BEV powertrain with gearbox assembled PTO

 Stefan Karlsson, Senior Expert Engineer, Scania CV AB, Sweden

• JJE launches a new electric beam system
• Multiple advanced technologies integrated in the new electric beam axle
• Bi-stable electromagnetic clutch for 2-speed transmission shifting and differential locking

Dr Yang Cao, Transmission Senior Supervisor, Jing-Jin Electric, China

• Medium Duty Commercial Vehicle e-Transmission
• 3-speed Commercial Vehicle e-Powertrain
• Commercial Vehicle e-Propulsion System

Patxi Garcia, Product Planning Manager – Commercial Vehicle Europe, Dana Incorporated, Spain

• Systematic pre-development process – IAV Actuation Synthesis
• Initial situation – reference vehicle/ powertrain
• Concept development pneumatics & electromechanics
• Systematic comparison of concepts

Patrick Starke, Development Engineer, IAV GmbH, Germany

• Requirements for e-axles in Commercial Vehicle applications
• Compact, package-optimized gear set concepts
• Modular interfaces, universally Applicable for different suspension and braking systems
• Results from bench- and vehicle testing

Dr Gereon Hellenbroich, Manager, FEV Europe GmbH, Germany and
Weiping Wei, Prorgam Director, eKontrol Co.,Ltd, China

• Hardware design for optimised efficiency
• Efficiency data study at vehicle level
• The effect of sophisticated vehicle control strategies
• Combined eTMS and integrated drive modules

Hannafia Spånberg, Director Engineering Europe, BorgWarner, Sweden

• Why energy-management is inevitable for future BEV
• Current and ZF solutions
• Thermal simulation capability and expertise
• Proof of concept – prototype and demonstrator system

 Alessio Paone, Senior Manager, ZF Friedrichshafen AG, Germany

• A lean tool approach to design cooling systems in BEV
• A semi-automated tool to develop vehicle cooling systems
• Accelerated layout design of thermal management systems

Dr Matthias Steinsträter, Project Manager, IAV GmbH, Germany

• Benefit of battery heating for different customer types
• Energy consumption and battery load due to C-rates as well as temperature in customer operation
• Evaluatiotn of thermal management with real driving data

Marcel Sander, Research Associate, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany

• Exhaustive thermal system achitecture generation
• System modelling and AI for generating thermal system achitecture
• Generative engineering for generating thermal system achitecture

 Pierre-Emmanuel Dumouchel, CEO, Dessia Technologies, France

• Results and lessons from an applied advance DVP
• Maximise your validation program for speed, cost and quality
• Reduce time-to-market to ensure product impact
• Tune your validation to your product and application

Alwin Tuschkan, Project Manager IODP,  AVL List GmbH, Austria

• Technologies for collection and analysis of large-scale customer-vehicle data
• Significance of low-frequency data regarding drivetrain component stress development
• Investigation of 1 % customer collectives
• Applications of data-driven approaches in drivetrain durability design

Mingfei Li, PhD-Student and Dr Fabian Noering, Data Scientist, Volkswagen AG, Germany

• Creating a digital twin that actually works
• Sources of uncertainties in reliability predictions
• Deriving reliability by studying large fleet data
• Comparison with current methods for sign-off

Detlev Runkel, Senior Solutions Strategist, Hexagon, Germany

• Frontloading of in-vehicle development tasks for effective development
• Successfully frontload calibration of dynamic vehicle behavior
• Vehicle simulation as enabler for calibration dynamic vehicle behavior
• Frontloading by using vehicle simulation and integrating HiL/SiL solutions

Björn Wultsch, Project Manager IODP, AVL List GmbH, Austria

• Electrified powertrain NVH simulation
• Gear dynamics
• Electric machine dynamics
• Dynamic analysis of spline induced noise

Dr Paul Langlois, Software Engineering Director, SMT, UK

• Australia´s rare earths processing hub
• Sustainable rare earths mining and processing
• Diversification in the permanent magnet supply chain

Nuala Bertram, Rare Earths – Sales Manager, Iluka Resources Limited, Australia

• The importance of steel GHG emissions in the automotive industry
• The green transition of the European steel industry
• The raw material requirements related to the green transition of the steel industry
• Solutions

Liesbet Gregoir, Sustainability Manager, Cargill, Belgium

• Wheel Bearing Sustainability Concepts
• CO2e reductions quantified upstream (steel production)
• CO2e levers quantified downstream (CO2 emissions during use)

Andreas Becker, Expert Wheel Bearing Technology PassCar, Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG, Germany

• Automotive industry in times of ESG and EU battery regulation
• Examples of achievement: sustainable battery production in Germany
• Strategies for sustainable products, projects and processes

Robert Gantner, Head of Business Development Battery Systems Globally for Automotive, Webasto Group, Germany

• The transition from Si to SiC enables new applications and business models
• Challenges of recycling, re-use, refurbishment and appropriate re-application
• New opportunities for the high-tech society and industry

Ole Gerkensmeyer, Director, Wolfspeed Europe GmbH, Germany

• Solutions for OEM customers, niche low volume manufacturers, aftermarket and gearbox only customers
• Packaging two motors in the space of one
• Aftermarket vehicle conversions
• Thermal robustness

Nico De Visscher, Chief Engineer Design & Development, TREMEC, Belgium

• A more effective Motor Topology for future powertrains
• Breakthroughs to deliver substantial power density improvements
• Manufacturing challenges solved and to be solved

Peter Leijnen, CTO, Traxial BV, Belgium

Hartmut Schneeweiss, Sen. Mgr. Technology & Innovation, eAx solutions GmbH, Germany

• It can be done!
• Motor, gearbox and inverter innovation is required
• Significant gains in mass, size and cost are possible

 Martin Burgbacher, Executive Director Engineering, American Axle & Manufacturing, Germany

• Efficiency trends for e-drives
• Efficiency improvements inverter hardware
• Efficiency improvements inverter software
• Efficiency improvements e-motors

Dr Alexander Rambetius, Senior Expert System Application Electric Drives, Valeo, Germany

• How to evaluate the CO₂-equivalent on an EDU
• Design-to-CO₂-eq & calculation of CO₂-eq over life cycle
• Additive manufacturing to increase peak power & efficiency

Wilhelm Vallant, Senior Product Manager, AVL List GmbH, Austria

• New high-compact-torque-vectoring (HCTV)
• 800 V solution with two performance variants and high scalability
• EDU as a primary or secondary powertrain application through modularity
• Adaptable innovative layout for specific design requirements

Pascal Walter, Team Leader, hofer powertrain products, Germany and
Severin Schneider, Manager Advanced Development, ElringKlinger AG, Germany

• Wide-bandgap technologies enables advanced and efficient inverter topologies
• Analyses of PWM losses of e-machines in a wide range of inverter switching frequency
• Increasing reliability and drivability in L4/L5 autonomous vehicles
• Electric drivetrain efficiency optimisation for more range and longer lifetime

Dr Ayman Ayad, System Engineer for HV Systems, Vitesco Technologies GmbH, Germany

• Double-sided cooling, compact, epoxy overmolded power module
• New generation cooling module with novel fin structure
• Novel electronic control safety architecture
• High temperature capacitor technology

Dr Pascal David, Engineering Manager – Advanced Systems Innovation Electric Drives Europe, BorgWarner, Luxembourg

• Balanced performance and efficiency
• Motor controls for reduced harmonics
• Variable switching frequencies for maximised motor performance

Dr Simon Klacar, Head of Propulsion System & Electric Drive, InfiMotion Technology Europe AB, Sweden

• Challenges of eMobility
• Superior features of SiC technology
• Optimized packaging technology: enabling optimal usage of SiC performance

Alexander Reich, Head of Product Management High Voltage Electronics, Vitesco Technologies, Germany and
Aly Mashaly, Director Application and Technical Solution Center, Rohm Semiconductor Europe, Germany

• Fuel cell integration into an existing vehicle platform
• ZEV conversion for the commercial vehicle sector
• Toyota multi-technology approach to de-carbonisation

Joachim De Boever, Technical Manager, Toyota Motor Europe, Belgium

• Structure and geometry of a plate format PEMFC single cell
• Gradient analysis in gas channels through sensor integration
• Integrated thermal management for emulating a PEMFC stack
• Layout of different compression concepts for PEMFCs

Johannes Knaier, Research Associate, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Germany

• Requirements for fuel cell stacks in heavy duty applications
• Potential solutions & strategies for different use cases
• EKPO’s way to industrialize fuel cell stacks
• NM12 platform as high power solution for HD applications

Dr. Stefan Dwenger, Director Product Engineering, EKPO Fuel Cell Technologies GmbH, Germany

• Technology Solution Trends
• Data Driven approach to balance KPI’s
• Modularisation opportunity identification driven by objective data

Richard Dunne, Business Development Executive, Drive System Design Ltd., UK

• Separation of the battery charging from the vehicle
• Battery Swap to increase daily usage time
• Newly developed side-swapping

Sven Steinwascher, CTO, GETEC Getriebe Technik GmbH, Germany

• Structure of the multi-speed transmissions design
• Implementation of the gear shifting system
• Energy saving potentials with different driving cycles

Adel Turic, Scientific Assistant, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

• Life-cycle sustainability optimisation LCSO)
• Heavy-duty vehicle (HDV) development
• Eco-design paradox in early product design

Nicolas Kratzer, PhD Candidate and Research Project Assistant, CD-Laboratory for Sustainable Product Management Enabling a Circular Economy, University of Graz, Austria

• A real technological leap in lithium battery
• A fluid to avoid any fire and thermal runaway propagation
• A solution to achieve the ultra fast charging
• The immersion cooling: demonstration by real applications

Dr Gérard Quoirin, Battery Specialist, TotalEnergies Lubrifiants, France and
Dr Marc Thomine, Battery Engineer, AMPERE, France

• EV Thermal Management Systems (TMS) vs fast charge cooling need
• Immersive cooling for the battery for better efficiency
• Impact of the immersive cooling on the TMS architecture
• Coolant hub modules to simplify the TMS integration in the car

Dr  Moussa Nacer-Bey, Advanced Development Technical Leader, Valeo, France

• Early detection and containment
• Numerical and experimental tools for thermal runaway assessment
• Impede thermal runaway propagation in lithium ion battery pack

Mareike Schmalz, Manager Battery Advanced Development, APL GmbH, Germany

• Motivation for the transition from wired to wireless BMS
• Wireless BMS development process
• Challenges and countermeasures of wireless BMS implementation
• Forecast of wireless BMS spread in automotive and energy storage applications

Davide Cavaliere, Battery Management Systems Product Manager, Marelli, Japan

• EDU efficiency gains through lubricant and additive design
• Industry testing for EDU lubricant efficiency
• Optimising lubricant viscosity for efficiency and durability
• Lubricant chemistry to enable efficiency

Dr Susie Hurley, Senior Driveline Advisor, Afton Chemical, United Kingdom, UK

• Achieving a unified electric powertrain system cooled and lubricated with a single e-fluid
• Co-development of the whole e-powertrain system in combination with the e-fluid
• Integrated cooling and lubrication of e-motor, inverter and transmission

Branimir Mrak, Senior Research Engineer, Flanders Make, Belgium

• Cooling of batteries, e-axles, fuel cells and charging station equipment
• Current fluid technologies used in thermal management systems
• Use of water/glycol systems, brines or oil-based dielectric fluids in EVs and adjacent applications

Dr Karolina Jablonka, Senior Technical Manager, Valvoline Global Operations, The Netherlands

• EV fluid for Electric Drive Unit
• A co-development between oil supplier and part maker
• Optimized EV fluid for integration of the e-motor

Falvio Sarti,Testing Engineer, Project Manager,TotalEnergies, France

• Substitution of a conventional control logic by an AI based controller to stop the ICE in a HEV powertrain
• Controller with self-learning strategy
• Reinforcement learning

Jeroen De Smet, Senior Manager, Toyota Motor Europe, Belgium

• Green electricity integration: strategies for incorporating renewable energy into the transportation sector
• Critical assessment of Methanol as an energy carrier/future fuel
• Methanol in motion: current and emerging applications in the transportation sector
• Optimising Methanol’s potential in engines: insights from current engine testing covering the injection system

Felix Fellner, Academic Researcher, Technical University of Munich, Germany

• Dual clutch transversal compound layout
• Flexible mechanical layout for 8-speed w w/o mechanical RV gear
• High efficiency hydraulic control modules
• Hybrid suitable layout for P2/P3 or P1 functionality

Matteo Scribano, High Performance Transmission Lead Product Engineer Engineering, Dana Inc. – Rivoli, Italy

• Range extender for high energy demanding applications
• Own developed VCU allows an on-demand power
• Resolve range and flexibility of logistic and municipal vehicles

Joachim Trumpff, General Manager, GETEC Getriebe Technik GmbH, Germany