Title: “Shaping the future of automotive sector and racing cars”
Speaker: Andrea Pontremoli – CEO and General Manager Dallara
Abstract:
The change we see in the transportation industry today is driven by new technology startups as well as traditional market leaders. Automotive companies are increasing the budgets for innovative R&D, innovation labs, investments and M&A to cope with the rapid improvements in vehicle fuel efficiency requested by the target emission cuts of 2025 and 2030.
Keynote Speaker Andrea Pontremoli is explaining the key technology trends and economic dynamics that change transportation from the ground up.
Throughout the experience of Dallara, which has been developing racing cars since 1972, Pontremoli will address us on how the supercar sector is evolving and about the recent Bosch-Dallara partnership, that aims at designing the supercar of the future which first full electric prototype was unveiled in October 2020.
Title: “Future trends and challenges for electrification of off-road vehicles”
Speaker: Nicholas Hale – Director, Advanced Drivetrain Off-Highway CNH Industrial Technology
Abstract:
Electrification in non-road mobile machinery such as tractors is still at an initial stage. For these vehicles, the movement is only a limited part of the work duty, since mechanical power to the power take off (PTO) or to hydraulic remotes is typically required.
This results in a difficult identification of the best electrification strategy for the vehicle.
Nevertheless, the interest in more-electric tractors is very high and increasing. At the moment there is a stringent need to create the background, currently missing, to face the design of a complete more electric tractor system, identifying, among the others, the best electrification structure topology to be adopted, the load requirement for different operations and the components currently used that need to be redesigned.
With this speech, we address the technological challenges and possible future perspectives of off-road vehicle electrification through the experience of CNHi.
Title: “Power Electronics and Machines for the More Electric Aircraft”
Speaker: Prof. Chris Gerada – Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Industrial Strategy, Business Engagement and Impact, University of Nottingham, UK
Abstract:
In the recent years, research has focused in assisting the progressive increase in transportation electrification. Many reasons have driven this effort, including the push for the reduction in pollution (often enforced by international agreements), the research for better performance and the maturity of the technology.
The aerospace industry will require a new generation of electrical machines and drives, able of a step change in power rating and power density compared to existing technology.
This presentation will first highlight the main challenges and requirements for electrical machines for hybrid aircraft including those for generator-sets and for propulsion.
Then, Prof. Gerada will lead us to the recent technology developments in pushing the boundaries of electrical machine performance for airborne applications through: new electrical machine-drive topologies, the application of new materials, advancements in health monitoring algorithms and faster switching power electronics.
Title: “Urban Air Mobility – Status, Challenges, Perspectives”
Speaker: Mykhaylo Filipenko – Former Director Center of Competence Electric Machines “Higher Power” Rolls-Royce Electric.
Abstract:
As the world of Urban Air Mobility starts to turn from a dream into a reality, join this keynote speech as we look at what is happening across this new sector.
Urban Air mobility is receiving more and more attention and is becoming an opportunity to start a new urban mobility paradigm. While the propagated dream of reducing congestion and traffic jams is still far away, eVTOLs have the potential to replace classical helicopters in many applications and open new ones that were not economically feasible before.
Although, most VTOL concepts that are proposed today were already known back in the 70s and have not gone much further than prototyping, the availability of very power dense motors and power electronics allows to rethink these concepts in the context of electric propulsion.
With this speech, we address the technological challenges in the design of these systems, with an eye to future prospective and target performance for electrical machines and power electronics.