Successful conference days in Kista: Roads to the Future and E-mobility Day

On 29-30 August, the Swedish Electromobility Center organised two well-attended conference days in Kista outside Stockholm. Roads to the Future had a program entitled “Electric Vehicles as a New Player in the Grid” with a great spread between topics.

– A remarkable day, SEC Chairman of the Board Nils-Gunnar Vågstedt summarises this year’s SEC conference Roads to the Future. It was a pleasure to listen to all the distinguished international speakers giving us the latest perspectives on the electric vehicle as a new player in the grid.

Klaas Burgdorf at Energimyndigheten set the scene with his introduction stressing the importance of vehicle-to-grid integration. Anna Teyssot gave the journey of Verkor, building a gigafactory in Dunkirk. Keith Hardy taught how we could build even smarter charging infrastructure. The need for electric motors free from rare earth metals was stressed by Ali Emadi and Chih Feng Lee proposed we see an electric vehicle also as a transport of energy in the time and space domain. Most discussion was raised in connection to David Cebon showing how electric road systems would solve heavy transport.

Matt Lacey warned about hyping results about battery performance in the lab (build trust in science) and Simon Reinberth from  Heart Aerospace promised we could fly without shame in the future.

Thanks, Magnus Burman for being an excellent moderator.

The E-mobility Day Conference

The Roads to the Future was followed by much-appreciated presentations from the SEC research projects at the E-mobility Day the day after. 14 projects from the five research themes were presented with the opportunity for the audience to ask questions.

The interaction of the participants was high during the breaks. Having time to meet, discuss, and exchange ideas is as important as exciting presentations. The poster session gave a moment for in-depth exchanges.