Call for papers

A record number of abstract has been received and reviewed by the committee. Authors will be informed by the end of January 2009 about acceptance and final paper submission.

EVS-24 will host high-quality research papers from academia and industry in both lecture and dialogue sessions. While the first are more fitted for political or more general topics, the other presents the advantage of allowing direct discussion between the attendees and the authors. This last option is particularly suitable for more technical and complex papers.

Each lecture presentation will be followed by a question-answer series so to generate further discussion whenever appropriate.

Dialogue sessions are poster-based sessions intended to be an efficient information vector for specialist technical scientific papers. They offer an interactive forum for expert discussion, demonstration of results and networking with fellow intellectuals from worldwide.

This year EVS will reward one best lecture presentation award and one best dialogue presentation award.

The best lecture presentation award will be selected during the conference.

For the best dialogue presentation award you should send your candidature to program@evs24.org including a small version (size A4) of your poster in pdf format and this before April 30th 2009.

The 5 best received posters will be nominated for the best dialogue presentation award and will receive a special banner on top of their poster panel, so they will have a very high visibility.

The lecture and dialogue sessions will be led by a chair person who will be also responsible for making conclusions at the end of the session and provide a memorandum that will be used for the after conference report.

This will offer an excellent platform to encourage networking among scientists, engineers and authority representatives, as well as an occasion to assess the contribution of Battery, Hybrid and Fuel cell electric vehicles towards the reduction of emissions and fuel consumption.

Topics

While the main focus in clearly road transport EVS now open its scope to rail, marine and air transportation. There is indeed, for most of the dedicated topics, a clear parallelism between researches make for all types of electrically propelled vehicles whatever their application field.

A. VEHICLES

A-1. Public Transport & Heavy Duty Vehicles
A-2. Passenger Cars
A-3. Recreation & Light Vehicles, including for disabled persons
A-4. Non-Road & Industrial
A-5. Waterborne Transportation
A-6. Military vehicles
A-7. Other Vehicles or Transport Systems

B. SUBSYSTEMS

B-1. Batteries & Energy storage
B-2. Propulsion systems & Subsystems
B-3. Fuel Cells
B-4. Auxiliary Systems
B-5. Modelling and Simulation

C. ENERGY SUPPLY & INFRASTRUCTURES

C-1. Charging Infrastructure
C-2. Energy Supply issues
C-3. Vehicle to Grid

D. ENVIRONMENT

D-1. Environmental Impacts and Life Cycle Analysis
D-2. Energy Efficiency & Energy Security
D-3. Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC), Health and Security

E. MARKET ISSUES

E-1. Introduction & Demonstration
E-2. Marketing & Market Research
E-3. Training & Job Creation
E-4. Public Education and Promotion
E-5. Specific Fleet Applications and Management

F. POLICY ISSUES

F-1. Public Policies and Programmes (International, National and Local)
F-2. Standardization & Regulations
F-3. Life-Cycle Cost Analyses and Short-, Medium-, and Long-Term Strategies

G. GLOBAL APPROACH

G- Global Approach Projects

Research projects comparing different technologies, their energy need or efficiency, their life cycle analysis or similar analysis including comparisons between technologies based on battery, hybrids, fuel cells/hydrogen, bio fuels etc and the impact to reduce emissions on a large scale in a well to wheel perspective

Submission

Accepted authors should submit online only the final version of the paper. Templates for paper submission are available on the submission pages.

The paper must contain new data, new evidence, new relevant research and be innovative.
Authors are requested to indicate to which family of vehicles they want to see their papers dedicated (BEV, HEV or FCEV).
Paper will only be included in the conference proceedings after receipt of one full registration fee in due terms.
Papers must not have previously been published and, if accepted, cannot be published though other media. Copyright owner for published papers will be AVERE.
Decision of acceptance will be made through a process including three reviewers per paper and a standard jury peer review.
Final selection will be made on the basis of the full paper.
Full papers will be published on CD ROM that will be distributed on site.

Submission deadlines

• Receipt of the abstracts: 1st November 2008
  extended to 20th November 2008
• Notification of provisional acceptance: 31st January 2009
• Receipt of full paper: 15th April 2009
  • Note that is the FINAL deadline after which inclusion of the paper in the proceedings can NOT be guaranteed!
• Deadline for registration of first author: 15th April 2009