[IEE EC3 News] EC3 Lecture reminder - Electric Vehicles - 24 March 2011

[Bill Pechey]

Dear Colleague,

You are being sent this reminder message because either you gave your
email address at one of our previous lectures or you signed up on the
web site associated with this email list:

http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/iee-ec3-news

I have appended the details of our next lecture and hope to see you there.

Details of our other lectures may be found at:

http://www.theiet.org/local/uk/thames/ec3/ec3-events.cfm

You can download a poster at:

http://www.theiet.org/local/uk/thames/berks/mar2011.pdf

Best wishes,

Bill Pechey
IET Thames Valley Specialised Section

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Challenges for mass-market adoption of Electric Vehicles

Dave Greenwood, Ricardo UK

Thursday 24 March 2011 19.00 for 19.30

Dave will discuss the future role of the electric vehicle in personal
transport, and the technical, economic and social challenges which
must be overcome to achieve it. This will include discussion of
vehicle usage patterns, vehicle technologies, the economics and carbon
benefits of electrification, and the impact (and benefits) of
integrating with the electrical infrastructure.

Dave Greenwood is Project Director for Technology, Innovation and
Strategy at Ricardo UK, responsible for technology strategy studies
and commercialisation of new technologies. Since joining Ricardo in
1989, Dave has enjoyed developing and delivering a broad range of
technologies including hybrid and electric vehicles flywheel energy
storage KERS systems for premium motorsport, UAV and heavy fuel
engines to name but a few.

This event is free of charge and open to all, with refreshments at 19.00. 

Contact: Dr Richard Mitchell rjmitchell at theiet.org

H125, Wheatley Campus, Oxford Brookes University (NOT the Headington
site).

For directions please visit:
http://www.brookes.ac.uk/about/findus

There is a plan of the site here:
http://www.brookes.ac.uk/about/findus/documents/wheatley.pdf