Contributions are welcome to all of the following topics:

1. Lithium ion cells: materials and improvements on properties

  • Active components (positive electrode materials, negative electrode materials)
  • Inactive components: Electrolytes (solid, liquid, polymer and hybrid electrolyte systems), Separators, Housings, Current collectors
  • Advancements in cost reductions
  • Progress in cost reduction
  • New electrode and cell design: concepts and performance
  • Calendar life and cycle life
  • Theory, fundamentals and microscopic models
  • Theoretical, fundamental and microscopic models
  • New and advanced analytic methods in laboratories

2. Beyond and beside lithium-ion technology

  • Non-lithium technologies (sodium, magnesium, zinc, dual ion, etc.)
  • Progress on other battery technologies (any technology potentially suited for automotive or stationary applications)
  • Flow-batteries
  • Supercapacitors (incl. hybrid technologies)

3. Batteries for 12 V and 48 V power systems

  • Requirements and functional safety
  • Advances in lead-acid batteries incl. technology, management, and diagnostics
  • Field experience and results of SLI batteries
  • Lithium-based batteries for SLI applications
  • Parallel connection of lead-acid and lithium-based batteries

4. Battery systems

  • Battery ageing (experimental investigations, modeling, lifetime prediction, etc.)
  • Battery modeling (electrical, thermal, performance , lifetime, parameterization, etc.)
  • Parametrization: impedance and physico-chemical approaches
  • Battery diagnostics (SOC, aging, performance, etc.)
  • Battery management: cell balancing, charge and thermal management, etc.)
  • Test procedures and results from field and laboratory tests on lifetime, performance and safety
  • Reliability of different battery pack designs

5. Automotive and mobile applications

  • Novel use of battery storage systems in automotive applications (requirements, solutions, future technologies, etc.)
  • Advances in battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles
  • Future on-board power supply technologies (12 V, 48 V, micro and mild hybrids, topologies, etc.)
  • Combined battery systems (lead-acid, supercapacitors, li-ion, etc.)
  • Heavy-duty, public transport and off-road applications
  • Field experience, lifetime and reliability data, new technologies/applications, requirements and solutions to new applications

6. Stationary battery systems

  • Storage systems for grid stabilization, self-consumption from PV systems, power supply for fast charging, teaming-up several services to one system, etc.
  • Second life / second use concepts, long-term storage of batteries
  • Field experience, operational strategies, lifetime, sizing tools, etc.
  • Vehicle to grid (PHEV and EV as grid elements)
  • Hardware challenges beyond the battery system (power electronics, safety, BMS hardware, EMV, etc.)

7. Production and recycling of battery systems and cells

  • Machinery and procedures for battery and cell manufacturing
  • Production process design
  • Optimized battery pack design (efficient production, new technologies)
  • Vehicle to grid (PHEV and EV as grid elements)
  • Scenarios for battery costs, production capacities, markets

8. Markets

  • Actual market overview (capacity, manufacturer, chemistries, cell designs, etc.)
  • Market forecast (automotive, stationary, consumables) for different regions and the world
  • Availability of raw materials

Between the lecture sessions, sufficient time will be provided for poster sessions and for informal communication between symposium attendees. Members of universities and students will be granted significant discounts on conference fees.