CONCURRENT SESSION
Automobile Technology
David Sandalow [Chair]
Current position:
Inaugural Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University
Country:
United States
Career history:
- 2009-2013
- Under Secretary of Energy and Assistant Secretary for Policy & International Affairs, US Dept of Energy
- 2005-2008
- Energy & Climate Working Group Chair, Clinton Global Initiative
- 2003-2008
- Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
- 1999-2001
- Assistant Secretary for Oceans, Environment & Science, US State Dept
- 1994-1998
- White House staff, US
Areas of expertise:
Energy and climate policy
Mark S. Duvall
Current position:
Director, Energy Utilization
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Country:
United States
Career history:
- 2001-present
- Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
- 1990-2001
- Principal Development Engineer at the Hybrid Electric
Vehicle Center of the University of California, Davis
Areas of expertise:
Electric and plug-in hybrid powertrain systems, energy storage system design, end-use electrification and infrastructure, and testing.
Cal Lankton
Current position:
Director of the Global Electric Vehicle Infrastructure, Tesla Motors, Inc.
Country:
United States
Career history:
- 2013-Present
- Director of the Global Electric Vehicle Infrastructure, Tesla Motors, Inc.
- 2012-2013
- Director of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure, ABB North America
- 2010-2012
- Manager for Strategy and Business Development, ABB
- 2007-2008
- Manage for Client Service, PowerAdvocate
Areas of expertise:
Electric Vehicle Infrastructure and Technology
Takashi Moriya
Current position:
Senior Chief Engineer, Automobile R&D Center, Honda R&D Co., Ltd.
Country:
Japan
Career history:
- 2011
- Senior Chief Engineer of Honda R&D Automobile R&D Center
- 2009
- Operating Officer of Honda R&D Automobile R&D Center
General Manager, Technology Research Division 1 - 2006
- Senior Manager of the Power Plant Research & Development
- 1995
- Chief Engineer in the Power train Group Engaged Fuel Cell research activities of Fuel Cell Stack and System
- 1989
- Assistant Chief Engineer in the Engine and Power train Group
- 1981
- Joined Honda R&D Co., Ltd. Engine design division
- 1981
- Graduated from Osaka University with Bachelor Degree of Mechanical Engineering
Areas of expertise:
Automobile, Fuel Cell power train
Florence Lambert
Current position:
Director, Laboratory for Innovation in New Energy Technologies and Nanomaterials, French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA-LITEN)
Country:
France
Career history:
- 2013
- Leader of the New Industrial France recovery plan devoted to energy storage - Ministry of industry team
- 2013
- Director of Laboratory for Innovation in New Energy Technologies and Nanomaterials (1400 researchers – Annual turn over 170M€)
- 2009
- Head of department of electricity and hydrogen for transport at CEA-Liten (300 researchers)
- 2003
- Head team of 30 for research on grid storage at CEA
- 1999
- PhD in Electrochemistry – Renewable energy storage
Areas of expertise:
Energy storage, battery, Electric Vehicle, Hydrogen
Philippe A. Tanguy
Current position:
Vice President, International Scientific Development, Total
Country:
Germany
Career history:
- 2009-Present
- Total
- 1994-2009
- Chaired Professor at Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal, and Director of the Research Center on Industrial Processes
- 1988-2008
- International consultant in process engineering
Areas of expertise:
Chemical engineering, in particular fluid processes, energy and computational modelling
Yasuhiro Daisho
Current position:
Professor, Graduate School of Environment and Energy Engineering, Waseda University
Country:
Japan
Career history:
- 1985-
- Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Waseda University
- 1980
- Associate professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Waseda University
- 1978
- Assistant professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Waseda University
Areas of expertise:
Evaluations on vehicle engines' performance, combustion, exhaust emissions and energy saving characteristics.
Experimental and numerical assessments on performance and environmental impacts of next generation vehicles including electric, hybrid, fuel cell, bio-fuel and natural gas vehicles.
Policy and technical proposals for environmentally sustainable local mobility systems.