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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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