Interactive Breakfast Breakout Discussion Groups

Thursday, June 7
8:15 – 9:15 am

Join your colleagues and fellow delegates over breakfast for a focused, informal discussion moderated by a member of our speaking faculty. A small group format allows participants to meet potential collaborators, share examples from their own work, vet ideas with peers, and be part of a group problem-solving endeavor.

TABLE 1: Li-Ion Battery Safety: Prediction, Prevention, Levels and Legalities

John Zhang, PhD, Senior Technology Executive Officer, Asahi Kensai Group, Japan

• How do you define battery safety? What levels of battery safety must be considered to comprehensively advance research in this area?
• What are the most reliable and useful measures of battery safety? How do abuse tests relate to improving battery safety?
• What are the best methods for predicting battery safety behavior and preventing battery safety hazards?
• What are the most pressing legal issues associated with battery safety and batteries in CE and EDV?

TABLE 2: Silicon Anodes and Cells

Benjamin Park, PhD, Founder & CTO, Enevate

• What is the maturity level of Si today?
• What different approaches are there with Si?
• What are the challenges and how can the industry work together to solve them?
• How does Si compare with other next-gen technologies such as solid-state/lithium metal?
• What markets are the best markets for Si-based anode technologies?

Table 3: Electrolyte Developments: New Components and Approaches

Sam Jaffe, Managing Director, Cairn Energy Research Advisors

• Recent electrolyte advances and their impact on the battery
• Gauging cost/benefits to adding new components to electrolyte mixtures
• Super-concentrated salt electrolytes: recent research and implications
• Innovative solvent and additive approaches
• Emerging salt candidates for improved performance

TABLE 4: Cell Manufacturing

Raf Goossens, PhD, CEO, Global Corporate Management, PEC

• What are the key challenges for manufacturing large format cells?
• How can we achieve the large volumes that will be needed to fulfill the expected future market demands?
• What simplifications can be introduced during manufacturing?
• How can be progress with reducing the current cell manufacturing cost?
• What are the safety risks during manufacturing and how can we handle these?

TABLE 5: Lessons Learned from the Samsung Galaxy Note7 Battery Safety Events

Shmuel De-Leon, CEO, Shmuel De-Leon Energy, Ltd.

• We will discuss the event and it’s causes
• What are the lesson we should learn and what steps can be taken to prevent these events?
• How has this event affected the battery industry?

TABLE 6: Basic Science Research and Advanced Lead Batteries for Automotive Energy Storage Systems Batteries

Boris Monahov, PhD, Program Manager, Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC) – a program of the International Lead Association (ILA)

• Overview of recently analyzed lead battery performance data from 12V start-stop and micro-hybrid applications and 48V mild-hybrid applications
• Future battery science developments in line with the new 1618 ALABC Program and their potential application for future vehicles
• How does the energy cost per mile compare?
• What are the infrastructure cost per mile compare?
• What are the prospects for the future?

Table 7: Battery Safety Testing and Simulation

Brian Barnett, PhD, Vice President, CAMX Power

• What tests provide the best perspective about battery safety? Does this differ for different applications?
• What will the industry accept in "incremental cost" for components that enhance safety?
• Are some engineers more focused on passing the tests, and engineering accordingly, and is this any different than engineering real safety in the field?
• Which tests can or cannot be gamed

Table 8: High Energy Cathodes

Dee Strand, PhD, CSO, Wildcat Discovery Technologies

• Discuss materials used to meet automotive energy density targets
• How is electrolyte development keeping up with new high energy cathodes?
• Current challenges in electrolyte formulations

Table 9: Cell Screening Tests

Eric C. Darcy, PhD, Battery Technical Discipline Lead, Power Systems Branch, NASA Johnson Space Center

• Which cell screening tests are most the most effective at detecting outlying cells?
• Which tests are most effective at detecting cells with latent defects that could lead to thermal runaway field failures?

Table 10: Simplifying (or de-costing) xEV Packs

Carlton Brown, Director of Engineering, Robert Bosch Battery Systems LLC