Evolution of the Powertrain

There is no question that the future of mobility will be autonomous and electrified. In fact, it is expected that global automakers and suppliers will spend more than $300 billion over the next 10 years to bring electric cars to the mass market. A year ago, that figure was only $90 billion.
The automotive industry deals with one of the most complex products in the world that is highly regulated. Because of this, predictions especially related to electrification, are risky because factors like legislation, infrastructure, cost, customer acceptance, etc. all play a major role in the race toward full implementation.
Learn from a group of experts who will talk about several factors that are about to disrupt the global transportation system through the evolution of advanced powertrains.

Session Chair:

Dr. Lakshmi Varaha Iyer is a Technical Specialist with Magna International’s Corporate R&D and Engineering group. Dr. Iyer holds MASc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He has been conducting R&D activities in the area of electric machines and power electronics for automotive and sustainable energy applications since 2008. At Magna, he leads technology evaluation and strategic research & development of innovative electric machines and power electronics components and systems. He was a recipient of the prestigious NSERC CGS award in the year 2014 and Governor General’s Gold Medal in Canada in 2017. He was also honoured as one among North America’s “30 under 30” by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME, Advanced Manufacturing) in 2018.

Speakers:

Martin Winter, Magna Interantional Inc.

Florian Sell-Le Blanc and Alexander Dunker, Aumann Espelkamp GmbH

Ruoyu Hou, GaN Systems

Dan Ludois, University of Wisconsin-Madison