"Overall an excellent meeting. I gained valuable knowledge form this meeting."

James MacDougall, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

"Excellent organization by the AABC team. I always make the effort to attend because of the quality and useful discussions."

Ted Miller, Ford Motor Co.

"This is one of the best, if not the best, conferences around."

Wsewolod Hnatczuk, Senior Engineer, TACOM/TARDIC/NAC

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

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Highlights from AABC-07
Long Beach, May 2007

Session 1 on market development of HEVs and their batteries:
Menahem Anderman, Conference Chair and President of Advanced Automotive Batteries
Hideo Takeshita, Insitute of Information Technology
Tony Andreoni, California Air Resources Board
Scott Miller, Synovate Motorsearch
Mark Verbrugge, General Motors chairs session 2 of AABC AABC Session 2:
Toyota presentation
Tien Duong, Manager, US Department of Energy
Aymeric Rousseau, Argonne National Laboratory
Tony Markel, National Renewable Energy Laboratories
Dominique Portmann, DaimlerChrysler
Michael Andrew, Johnson Controls-Saft
Loic Gaillac, Southern California Edison
Marc Kohler, Valence Technology
Eckhard Karden, Ford Research and Advanced Engineering Europe
Christian Diegelmann, BMW Group
Bengt Wahlqvist, Effpower
Patrick Moseley, International Lead Zinc Research Organization
Kurtis Kelty, Firefly Energy
Benoit Soucaze-Guillous, Valeo
Question and answer session
Menahem Anderman and Thomas Keim of MIT Menahem Anderman with Tien Duong of the Department of Energy

Highlights from AABC-06
Baltimore, May 2006

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AABC Session 1: New Hybrid Vehicle Introduction and Market Growth
Panel Speakers:
Scott Miller, Chief Executive Officer, Synovate Motoresearch
Menahem Anderman, AABC Conference Chair
Hideo Takeshita, VP, Institute of Information Technology
David Hermance, Executive Engineer, Toyota Technical Center, USA
AABC Session 4: Advances in NiMH and Lithium-Ion Batteries for Full Hybrids
Panel speakers:
Ikuo Yonezu, General Manager of R&D Business Unit/Energy R&D Center, Sanyo
Kazuo Tojima, Senior Staff Engineer, Toyota
Kazuhiko Aitaka, Chief Engineer, Honda
AABC Session 5: Energy-Storage Systems for Plug-in and Specialty/Heavy Duty Vehicles
Panel Speakers:

Tien Duong, Manager, US Department of Energy
Gus Khalil, Hybrid Electric Research TL, US Army TACOM
Tom Bartley, Manager of New Business, ISE Corporation
Xiaosong Kang, Power Electronics Engineer, Eaton Corporation
Tony Markel, Senior Engineer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Rick Gunthner, VP HEV Battery Sales, Johnson Controls

“To plug-in or not to plug-in?” Tien Duong leads the discussion.

AABC Session 2: Energy-Storage Configuration and Management in Micro and Mild Hybrid Vehicles
Panel Speakers:
Mark Verbrugge, Director, Materials and Processes Lab, General Motors
Yoshitaka Kambe, General Manager, Toyota Motor Corporation
Peter Miller, Director, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Ricardo
Helmut Ollhauser, General Manager/ AFL Electronics Europe, Alcoa Fujikura
Thomas Keim, Principal Research Engineer, MIT Consortium
AABC Session 3: Energy-Storage Solutions for Mild Hybrids
Panel Speakers:
Andy Chu, Development Scientist, A123 Systems
Jeon Keun Oh, Leader, Corporate R&D Center/HEV Battery Project, SK Corporation
Ahmad Pesaran, Principal Engineer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Rainer Knorr, Project Leader, Siemens VDO
Kevin Konecky, Transportation Systems Program Manager, Cobasys LLC
Don Karner, President, Electric Transportation Applications
Mathias Ullrich, Senior Engineer, Volkswagen

Highlights from AABC-05

AABC Session 2: Power Distribution and Energy Storage Configuration, Requirements, and Management in Advanced Vehicles
Panel members:

Mark Verbrugge, Director, Material and Process Labs, General Motors
Tsuyoshi Kameda, Manager, Technical Center, GS Yuasa Manufacturing, Ltd.
Francisco Trinidad, Innovation Director, Exide Tudor
Rainer Knorr, Siemens VDO Automotive AG
Ahmad Pesaran, Manager, Energy Storage Projects for Hybrid and Fuel Cell Vehicles, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Menahem Anderman, President, Advanced Automotive Batteries

JCI poised for primetime in HEV batteries . . .
AABC Session 4: Advances in NiMH and Li Ion Batteries for Full Hybrids
Panel members:
Shinji Hamada, Staff Engineer, Engineering Department, Panasonic EV Energy
Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Manager, Engineering Department, Toyota Motor Corporation
Christian Rosenkranz, Director Sales and Marketing, VARTA Automotive Systems GmbH, a member of the Johnson Controls Group
James Symanski, Manager, Automotive Systems Group, Johnson Controls

Movers and shakers in the industry:
Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Toyota
Menahem Anderman, AAB
Shinji Hamada, PEVE
Tatsuo Teratani, Toyota

Session 5: Hybridization of Buses, Delivery Trucks, and Military Vehicles and their Energy Storage Systems
Panel members:
Robert King, Electrical Engineer, Electrical Machines and Drives Laboratory, General Electric Global Research Center
Kenneth Kelly, Senior Engineer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Takefumi Inoue, Manager, Large-scale Lithium-ion Battery Engineering Department, GS Yuasa Technology Ltd.
Michel Broussely, Scientific Director, Saft France

Poster Presentations at AABC-05

JCI exhibit at AABC-05 AABC-05 Dinner around the pool at the Sheraton

Highlights from AABC-04

Automakers gather at AABC-04 in San Francisco to discuss power source requirements for hybrid vehicles

Kazuo Tojima
Senior Staff Engineer, Toyota
Noboru Sato
Former Chief Engineer, Honda R&D
Takeshi Miyamoto
Manager Advanced Powertrain Engineering Group, Nissan
Scott Jorgensen
Manager Energy Storage, General Motors R&D
Ted Miller
Technical Specialist, Ford Research and Advanced Engineering
Cyrus Ashtiani
Manager, Advance Battery Programs, DaimlerChrysler

AABC-04 Panel Sessions

Session 1: New Vehicle Introduction and Market Growth
Panel members:

David Hermance, Executive Engineer, Toyota U.S.
Alan Lloyd, Chairman, California Air Resources Board
Ted Miller, Technical Specialist, Ford
Menahem Anderman, President, Advanced Automotive Batteries
Hideo Takeshita, Vice President, Institute of Information Technology
Session 3A: The Use of Lead Acid Battery in Advanced Vehicles
Panel members:

Asahiko Miura, Senior Engineer, R&D Division, Shin-Kobe Electric Machinery
Shoji Shiga, Managing Director, Furukawa Battery Co.
Chester Motloch, Consulting Engineer, INEEL
Robert Nelson, President, Recombination Technologies
Alan Cooper, European Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium


Ikuo Yonezu, (General Manager, Sanyo Electric Co.) delivers a paper on high-performance nickel-metal hydride battery technologies for HEV Mike Saft (Saft), Tim Murphy (Idaho National Laboratory) and Menahem Anderman (AAB) in discussion

Ahmad Pesaran (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), Robert Spotnitz (Battery Design Company) and Keith Kepler (Farasis Energy) in discussion Dan Herrera, (Associate Director for Mobility Technology, US Army TACOM) discusses military hybrid vehicle programs

AABC-04 delegates relax over lunch

AABC-03

The 3rd International Advanced Automotive Battery (including Fuel Cell and Ultracapacitor) Conference
Acropolis Convention Center, Nice, France, June 10-13, 2003

The power systems that will enable 42V and advanced vehicles - presentation and debate by industry leaders

If you missed AABC-03, you can purchase a copy of the conference proceedings




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