Joint European Commission / EPoSS / ERTRAC Expert Workshop 2010 in Brussels - Belgium

Through a joint workshop on energy storage systems the Commission and the European Technology Platforms EPoSS and ERTRAC aim to understand recent advances and future perspectives in materials developments, cell technologies, system integration, production and testing methods as well as life cycle assessments for electric vehicle batteries.

A particular focus will be on lighthouse projects that promote manufacturing of batteries in Europe and may be part of the future implementation of the public-private partnership European Green Cars Initiative.

The discussions will particularly consider inter-dependencies of production costs, materials performance, cost and supply, energy consumption, robustness and safety as well as cycle and calendar lives. The results will contribute to a European road-map showing research, development and implementation paths for electric vehicle batteries. The invited experts at this workshop will come from European companies from the electric vehicle battery field as well as selected research institutions. A report will be made available after the workshop.


More information: www.ict4fev.eu/events/battery-workshop-2010