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-09
Long Beach, California, June 2009

Masanori Kitamura, GS Yuasa, takes questions from the audience and highlights the significant life and reliability challenge for EV batteries.		Tom Cackette, Executive Officer of the Calif. Air Resources Board, answers questions regarding California regulations for stepping up fuel efficency requirements to combat global warming.
Tom Apalenek, BAE, opens the pack integration specialty vehicle session, informing the audience that BAE is installing lithium ion batteries in hybrid buses.		Jun Furukawa affirms better lead acid batteries are coming.

Chief battery technologists from major automakers state automotive energy-storage requirements and their assessments of the status of the technology and the direction of the growing market. Uwe Wiedemann, Mercedes Eckhard Karken, Ford Europe Kazuo Tojima, Toyota Ryan Harty, Honda Matthias Ullrich, Volkswagen Jinho Park, Hyundai Mark Verbrugge, General Motors Roland Matthe, General Motors Ted Miller, Ford

Highlights from AABC-08
Tampa, Florida, May 2008

AABC Session 1 - Market Development of HEVs and their Batteries Conference Chair Menahem Anderman, President of AAB takes questions from the floor John German, Manager, American Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Danilo Santini, Argonne National Laboratory Scott Miller, Synovate Motoresearch, Inc.

Tojima-san, principal battery engineer of Toyota explains the severity of the PHEV duty cycle on the battery reliability. Hironori Harada, Toyota Motor Co. Roland Matthe, General Motors Mark Verbrugge, General Motors

AABC Session 1 - Market Development of HEVs and their Batteries François Orsini, Renault Hironori Harada, Toyota Motor Co. Roland Matthe, General Motors Carol Chambers, AAB Conference Organizer Tony Markel, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Aymeric Rousseau, Argonne National Laboratory Andy Chu, A123Systems, Inc.

Steve Clarke of Chrysler, Chairman of USABC Dr. Sheen affirms SK Corp's commitment to HEV business

John German of Honda talks about HEV duty profile in the Q&A session

AABC attracted 890 particpants from 20 countries around the world

Dinner Cruise on board the Yacht Starship on Tampa Bay

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

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

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