Powertrain & Battery requirements for Global Electrified Passenger Vehicles
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Global passenger car markets require a high diversity of powertrain and energy sources to meet local legal and customer requirements.  The electrified powertrain needs are reviewed and then how these diverse requirements can be met with ICE, fuel, e-motor, inverter and batteries as combined systems.   There are many ways these powertrain elements can be combined to deliver the attributes required or desired by both OEM and customers and these in turn drive differing requirements down to the electrified powertrain systems, sub-systems and components. Matching and selecting the most appropriate technology solutions which can on the one hand meet the high diversity of demands whilst at the same time being able to be produced efficiently in appropriate volumes is one of the core challenges of the automotive industry at this time.

Next-Gen Flight – Hybrid Aviation’s Opportunities, Challenges, and the Road to Certification
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Aviation remains one of the toughest sectors to decarbonise, with strict safety standards and weight constraints limiting the adoption of new technologies. Yet the urgency for change is clear—and hybrid powertrains offer a practical, near-term solution. By bridging conventional and electric propulsion, hybrid systems allow us to reduce emissions now, while paving the way for fully electric flight in the future.

This session explores how hybridisation can accelerate sustainable aviation. Evolito will present a case study featuring a small electric aircraft and a helicopter, demonstrating how retrofitting with an optimised Evolito powertrain—paired with a proven aerospace-class engine—can deliver measurable fuel savings. We’ll share the design strategies and technical innovations behind these results, with a focus on balancing performance, cost, and integration complexity.

Guest speakers will also address the broader implications of hybrid systems, including their impact on safety, certification, and regulatory compliance. Finally, we’ll compare different hybridisation approaches, evaluating their readiness, challenges, and effectiveness.

Through a mix of data, insight, and real-world examples, this session offers a clear view of how hybrid electric propulsion is shaping the next chapter of aviation—and what lies ahead on the journey to net zero.

Electronics: Innovations from Binder Jetting to Smart Software
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This session will explore the transformative impact of additive and hybrid manufacturing techniques on the production of power electronics. The first speaker will provide an overview of additive manufacturing (AM) methods, focusing on novel binder jet printing techniques and their ability to fabricate complex geometries and directly integrate functional structures onto substrates, thereby enhancing performance and reducing assembly steps. 

The second speaker will focus on advanced software for additive manufacturing, specifically developed to enable the production of multi-material components. This talk will highlight how software tools are essential in optimising AM design, material placement, and process parameters for power electronics applications. 

The session will conclude with a panel discussion exploring the future landscape of power electronics manufacturing, considering how these innovative AM techniques could lead to more efficient, compact, and reliable components, ultimately transforming the industry.

Advancing Commercial Aircraft Electrification
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While the trend toward more electric aircraft has been gaining momentum for some time, the emergence of hybrid and fully electrified propulsion systems is now on the cusp of becoming a reality. This shift is a critical step toward the aerospace industry's bold ambition to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. 

However, significant challenges remain in scaling these technologies for safe, reliable, and cost-effective industrial implementation. 

In this panel session, we will hear form industry leaders who are actively addressing these challenges. Together, we'll explore the current state of the art-and look ahead to what lies beyond

Large Scale EV Charging: Balancing the needs of the Vehicles with the needs of the Grid 
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Electric Vehicles are happening, but volume deployment has only just started and progress to date has largely been largely limited to passenger, light goods and some medium duty vehicles. Electrifying large fleets of vehicles and heavy good vehicles presents a whole new level of challenges, ranging from vehicle battery capacity and range, to charging speeds and powers and, critically, the impacts on grid supply capacity.

This session will review the current state of the art for electric vehicle charging standards and technology relevant to large vehicles and large fleets, specifically highlighting ground-breaking e-freight charging in the UK and US. Beyond the current State of the Art, new battery technologies facilitating extended large vehicle range will be reviewed. Finally, the impact to the Electricity Distribution Network is considered with a prominent network operator highlighting the technologies being deployed to extend the capacity and flexibility of the existing network to facilitate electrification.

Industrial Drives: Applications and Monitoring
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Industrial drives have been controlling various types of motors for decades bringing significant improvements in process control, precision, and efficiency.  The types of motors used have changed from DC to AC induction to Permanent magnet and with different configurations to optimize size, cost, and efficiency.  The drive systems remain complex with a multitude of sensors, controllers, HMIs and system tuning required to complete the installation.  This session will look at drives from a systems designer’s perspective.  What has changed in drives over the last few years to make component selection, electrical, thermal, and mechanical design more robust and repeatable.  What challenges remain for the integrator who combines this variety of components.  

The cost of the systems while high can be small compared to the cost of inefficiency or component failure.  Is it possible to effectively monitor and predict wear out and failure of these divergent and complex systems while providing simple to understand and useful information to the operator.  This session will discuss how drive system monitoring can be achieved using existing sensors and a few strategically placed sensors to provide complete system and plant lifetime monitoring.

What's so important about efficiency in Battery Electric Vehicles?
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An introduction to the important of designing high efficiency electric powertrains to accelerate the adoption of green technologies.

The YASA topology motor has been optimised as part of a system, so inverter design options are carefully explored and evaluated. A novel inverter topology is presented to best match the requirements of performance, efficiency, and cost.

GaN technology optimizes the benefits of multi-level topologies.  The manufacturing flow of GaN devices is more aligned to traditional silicon, which offers a cost advantage when compared to silicon carbide with has a more energy intensive and complex manufacturing flow.

An exemplar BEV powertrain concept design platform for large design space exploration, considering the electrical machine, inverter, battery, and transmission for a dual motor, electrified pickup truck.