Dr. Menahem Anderman, co-author of the 2000 California Air Resources Board Battery Report, founded Advanced Automotive Batteries to provide up-to-date technology and market assessments of the rapidly growing field of energy storage for advanced automotive applications. AAB, the key information source for the advanced automotive battery industry, offers conferences, industry reports and expert consulting.

For over a decade, the annual International Advanced Automotive Battery Conference (AABC) has attracted professionals from the hybrid and electric vehicle world and their battery system suppliers, to stimulate the sharing of experiences and opinions. 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, AAB now hosts two conferences each year, an International AABC held in the U.S. and a European AABC held in Germany.

AAB’s most recent multi-client industry report, The 2011 EV-PHEV Opportunity Report, is an assessment of the technological and commercial challenges to electrifying vehicles, based on an in-depth analysis of advanced automotive battery technology. The Report includes forecasts for each significant automaker and battery producer, based on onsite interviews with all four tiers of the supply chain.

Dr. Anderman is well known in the industry as a battery expert, and unique among battery consultants for having both technical and business background. His clients over the last 11 years have ranged from Silicon Valley startups to some of the world's largest corporations.

Reducing the harmful impact of vehicles on the environment is a vital task for the industrial world. With the introduction of advanced electric and hybrid vehicles, the automotive industry is now exploring cost-effective ways to reduce fuel consumption and emissions. Energy-storage technology is the key to the commercial success of these advanced vehicles.

The objective of the Advanced Automotive Batteries (AAB) is to make available to industry professionals around the world information that will help them focus their financial and human resources on the most technologically viable and economically affordable solutions to the future needs of automotive energy storage. AAB’s bi-annual conferences, industry reports and consulting services contribute to the development and mass commercialization of more eco-friendly vehicles, a cleaner environment and more responsible usage of our planet’s resources.