California now has regulations in place to transition transit and shuttle buses and on-road trucks to zero-emission. What’s next? What are we learning and what more can we learn as these policies are implemented in real-time? This talk will include policy and regulatory drivers, incentive programs available to support the zero-emission transition, and the important role of government agencies, utilities, and private stakeholders in ensuring successful vehicle deployments.

MHD commercial vehicle e-mobility fleet demand will be reviewed for 2023 - including vehicle deployments and multi-year orders. ZEV technology trends will be discussed (BEV, H2 FCEV, LCF RE EVs, etc.). Trendsetting OEM strategies and partnerships will be highlighted, along with key developments in MHD EV charging and H2 refueling infrastructure. Commercial vehicle OEM battery supply chain trends, challenges, and opportunities will also be discussed along with key policy developments.

This presentation will cover our developments in designing solar and battery DERs for improving EV charging station infrastructure.

Early electric trucks have relied on charging infrastructure designed for light-duty vehicles, but more powerful standards like MCS are ready for commercialisation offering DC fast-charging up to 3.75 megawatts. Wired stationary charging is the dominant technology, but alternatives like wireless charging and battery swapping can further reduce downtimes. This presentation will cover the current and future market landscape for electric fleet charging technology.

Core States Energy will overview our field-proven design-build checklist of best practices to help navigate the way toward cleaner solutions. We will explore the implications of converting fleets and outline critical real estate impacts, cost considerations, and map out best practices to steer a clear path toward a successful fleet transition.

Battery Electric Trucks are an important part of Daimler Trucks strategy to reduce GHG emissions. Daimler Truck has proven with a number of projects and products on a global scale how capable these electric trucks can be. This presentation will investigate the unique challenges for the electrification of heavy duty vehicles with a special focus on the need for a truckified cell.

Battery performance requirements for heavy-duty trucks are primarily derived from the category of use of the truck, and the work demand of the daily mission in the context of the charging environment. Existing low-cost battery technologies, including improvements thereon, can be an effective solution to many use-categories, even in the context of limited charging infrastructure. For the more demanding daily missions, either significantly higher specific energy batteries, or ubiquitous charging is required. Here, we provide a hypothesis on battery technologies for heavy-duty trucks operating in an environment of ubiquitous megawatt charging in USA.

Deep investigations of the mechanisms involved in operating lithium batteries reveal that the interfaces play an important role and significantly affect the whole system’s performance. The multiple reactions occurring at the different interfaces are major concerns as they tend to lead to degradation of the anode, the cathode, and the electrolyte. Great attention is given to the lithium reactivity towards the electrolyte and the formation of the solid electrolyte interphase. It is equally as important to optimise the cathode interface with the electrolyte as it is an important site of chemical and electrochemical reactions. Among the different approaches reported to enhance the electrochemical performances of the battery, one is the surface modification of the cathode materials. The challenges and recent advances in coating of high voltage cathode materials conducted by Blue Solutions will be presented.

Applications such as intralogistics, mining, or forestry vehicles are difficult to electrify due to their long operation time of up to 7000h/year. These applications require fast-charging batteries with long cycle lifetime. Skeleton Technologies' Superbattery technology can be charged in 60 seconds and presents a lifetime of 50,000 cycles. This presentation presents the Superbattery technology and covers real-life use cases in which fast charging is required. Fast charging will play a significant role in global electrification, safety and sustainability as overlooked properties, high-power and long lifetime as a large niches in electrification.

This presentation will cover our work on designing our port projects and technologies for the southern California port system.

Heavy-duty applications are highly utilized, resulting in advanced requirements in lifetime and power for the low-voltage energy storage and the power distribution. This talk displays the challenges and proposed solutions for future low-voltage systems. The focus is on safety-critical subsystems, which need a redundant power supply.

Introducing a revolutionary advancement in power electronics-the Exro Coil Driver. This innovative solution combines the functionalities of a traction inverter and an onboard charger, simplifying powertrain design while reducing overall costs. It enables integrated AC fast-charging capabilities, significantly reducing CAPEX and OPEX requirements for building and operating fleet charging depots. It also improves the performance and efficiency of the drive unit, all through innovations in power electronics.

Microgrids and Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) such as solar or battery energy storage systems (BESS) have become a valuable element in the future of high-power EV charging. By using techno-economic analysis software, Mr. Goldman will show how fleets can use DERs to ensure their plans will meet their future needs to reduce their carbon footprint, increase uptime, and accelerate permitting and grid interconnection, while reducing operating costs and increasing resiliency.

Understanding the state of health (SOH) of the batteries is critical to enable second-life use. Various techniques are being developed for a fast estimation of SOH, including EIS, as well as acoustic impedance. We have built a BESS consisting of second-life batteries from used LFP batteries, that is currently deployed at the charging station at the Everett Transit Center. Learnings from the data collected from a real-world deployment of a BESS consisting of second-life batteries will be presented.

The electric vehicle and battery industry continues to grow at a blistering pace as the world pushes closer to an electrified world. However, with all that growth comes challenges- a major one being the supply of talent with the skillset needed to get the job done. Understanding the market landscape, the trends, and what people are looking for is crucial to staying ahead of the curve. We went ahead and conducted a battery talent market survey to clearly understand, define, and breakdown those trends along with compensation details.