Electric vehicle events concentrate too much on three Cs - commercials, cars, copying each other. Cars will be only 34% of the electric vehicle value market in 2025. We must understand the totally different future, including for cars. The body of an EV and its parts are being completely reinvented and merged and made adaptable for land, water and airborne EVs. Antidote to those dreary EV conferences, in Berlin 28-29 April, IDTechEx stages Electric Vehicles Everything is Changing alongside a large exhibition. There are even optional masterclasses on next technologies and company visits on the days before and after this unique two day event.
The keynote will be Jaguar presenting on its potential use of printed electronics, a technology totally absent from most EVs today. IDTechEx gives an overview of new EV components and smart structures and where they first appear. Lithium-ion capacitors could replace batteries and silicon carbide and gallium nitride power components are replacing silicon. New range extenders will have no pistons. Rotary combustion engines and fuel cells, both covered at the event, are strong contenders.
You will gain insight into Structural Electronics and 3D Printed EVs. Structural electronics is replacing dumb bodywork with load-bearing electronics and electrics. Vehicles already have it with windshields that contain heaters and antennas and planes that have integral bird strike detectors, antennas and lightning conductor patterning. Ahead come much more ambitious versions such as - in one lecture - car bodywork becoming a supercapacitor so now a large component effectively vanishes. Also hear how 3D printing of complete vehicles including some electrics is another promising route.
Autonomous vehicles and new forms of power storage - battery and supercapacitor - are covered. However, powertrains are systems and these trends are surfaced including new charging infrastructure.
The conference continues with energy harvesting which is rapidly moving beyond the familiar regenerative braking. Now any self-respecting vehicle designer must consider at least six types of energy harvesting from strong ones like energy harvesting shock absorbers to charge batteries to weak ones that can drive wireless sensors and actuators, even lights. In addition, new thermoelectric energy harvesting will be in EVs by 2018.
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