Advanced Automotive Batteries

“This forum remains the most topically relevant to the energy storage electrification area. A must for any company or individual that wants to be informed in this rapid pace industry.”

Joe LoGrasso, General Motors

“AABC continues to be the can’t miss event for the automotive and transportation battery industry! And the quality of pariticpants - one of the best collections ever.”

J.J. Livingstone, A123 Systems

“I have been to a lot of conferences. This was the best one.”

Jake Welland, Hyundai Motor Company

"AABC is unique among conferences; it is both highly professional and personal.”

Martin Winters, Muenster University

"AABC has become the must attend battery event of the season. Congratulations to Dr. Anderman and his outstanding team on the success!"

Ted Miller, Ford Motor Company

"The outstanding networking possibilities ranking from technical experts to decision makers is unique to AABC."

Uwe Wiedemann, AVL List

"Your event is first class in every manner."

Ken Damon, Mobius Power

"May be the best conference I’ve been to!"

Gerald Wing, Mitsubishi Motors R&D America

"The right mix of topics, variation to previous AABCs. Very good insight in research trend and realistic assessment."

Roland Matthé, General Motors

"By far, the best and most comprehensive conference on battery development."

Stefan DeBruyne, SQM

"One of the very best AABC Conferences!"

Ben Knight, Honda

AABC and Symposia provide a unique forum where the directions of automotive power system technology are revealed by some of its most influential players.

The Advanced Automotive Battery Conference and Symposia provide a unique forum where the direction of the automotive battery technology and market is revealed by some of its most influential players.

With the introduction of advanced electric and hybrid vehicles, the automotive industry began exploring cost-effective ways to reduce fuel consumption and emissions. Energy-storage technology is the key to the successful implementation of advanced vehicles. For one decade, the annual International Advanced Automotive Battery Conference (AABC) has attracted industry professionals from the hybrid and electric vehicle world and their battery system suppliers, to stimulate the sharing of experiences and opinions.

This international forum offers attendees valuable insights into the emerging industry of advanced vehicles and advanced batteries, including lithium-ion battery and EC capacitor technologies. Participants range from the leading vehicle developers, automotive systems and battery materials and manufacturing equipment suppliers, to government officials and academics. Renowned as a global meeting place, AABC continues to ask, explore and answer the questions most relevant to the design and development of advanced vehicles and the batteries that will power them.

To keep pace with the rapidly expanding market development of HEVs, EVs, and their batteries, AABC hosted two highly successful conferences in 2010. The 10th International Advanced Automotive Battery and EC Capacitor Conference was held in the Orlando, Florida, and the first European Advanced Automotive Batteries Conference in Mainz, Germany. If you were unable to attend, you can now order copies of the AABC-10 Conference and Symposia Proceedings and the AABC-10 Europe Conference and Symposium Proceedings.

Makoto Nakashima and Takehito Yoda of Toyota presented details regarding the

PHEV Prius and its air cooled lithium-ion battery pack.

Dr. Henry Mao, BAK, shared his knowledge of the automotive battery industry in China

and gave details of BAK’s battery systems.

Roland Matthe described the lithium-ion battery system that is being implemented in

the GM’s Volt/Ampera PHEV.

Robert Spotnitz, Battery Design, led discussions focused on design trade-offs for

lithium-ion batteries.

Professor Martin Winters reviewed the latest developments in Li-ion battery materials.

Marc Verbrugge, GM, leads discussion on next generation lithium/air batteries.

Kevin Beaty, Eaton, and Dan Youngs, Allison Transmission, shared some of their

experience of using Li-Ion and NiMH in hybrid delivery vehicles and buses.

Eric Darcy described how NASA qualifies commercial off-the-shelf lithium-ion cells for

space missions and identifies potentially bad cells.

Dr. Anderman’s forecast for the automotive lithium-ion batteries raised a gasp from the

general audience but nods of agreement from many industry experts.

Joe LoGrasso, GM, and Ted Miller, Ford, provided perspective from automakers on

battery design for maximum reliability.

Ken Damon, Leyden Energy, leads a discussion on the manufacturing of lithium-ion

batteries.

John Miller, ECCAP Chairman, and presenters Sunwook Kim and Michael Liedtke,

field questions during the EC Capacitor panel discussion.

Youngjoon Shin, LG Chem, explained the advantages of pouch cell design.

Networking receptions provided a global marketing venue for AABC-10 exhibitors and

participants.

Menahem Anderman greets Kazuo Tojima, Toyota, and Jun Furukawa, Furukawa Battery

Co., at the Delegates’ Dinner attended by over 700 participants.

Mario Schweiger of AVL List GmbH, one of 25 poster presenters, discusses real traction

batteries on the virtual proving ground.

Highlights from AABC-09
Long Beach, California, June 2009

Menahem Anderman opens the 2009 AABC panel sessions with over 700 people in the audience.

AABC attendees mingle between sessions.

Roland Matthe, GM, Akira Kuroda and Kazuo Tojima of Toyota, and David Howell, DOE, taking questions from the audience regarding the outlook for PHEVs.

Alan Ohnsman, Bloomberg News, joins in an exchange with David Raney and Ryan Harty, Honda's AABC-09 speakers.



Ric Fulop, A123Systems, and Mark Verbrugge, USABC, accept their sponsor gifts.		Carol Chambers, AABC, keeps the audience updated on conference logisitics.

EnerDel and Aleees engaging prospective customers during AABC-09 reception.



Dinner for 700 under the Whales		Menahem Anderman thanks Martin Winter, Matthias Ullrich, John Miller, and Andreas Stoermer for chairing sessions.

Highlights from AABC-08
Tampa, Florida, May 2008

Mike Lesneiwski, Exxon Mobil
Ric Fulop, A123Systems
Kazuo Tojima, Toyota



Ric Fulop of A123Systems with Menahem Anderman, Conference Chair		Ulrik Grape of Enerdel



Kazuhiko Aitaka of Honda		AABC 08 Poster Session

Dinner cruise aboard the Yacht Starship on the Tampa Bay



LLIBTA Symposium 2007		Menahem Anderman, AABC Conference Chair, reminding “The industry must face the challenges for Li Ion batteries.”

Exhibits in the conference foyer

Tel: (530) 692-0140
If you are calling from outside the U.S.A., dial the country code “1”
E-mail: info@advancedautobat.com

Copyright ©2000-2009 Advanced Automotive Batteries. All rights reserved.
Web Site Design: Landini Design, Inc.