NOVI ? Thousands of attendees and hundreds of exhibitors packed the Suburban Showcase this week for the Battery Show, which this year added the Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Technology Expo.
The show, which began life four years ago in California, was moved to Michigan because of the state?s strong engineering community, said Marketing Manager Blanca Balaguer.
?Seventy-six percent of our attendees are from Michigan,? she said. ?We added the electric and hybrid expo this year to provide information for the electric vehicle supply chain as well as for design and manufacturers.?
The event also featured conference sessions, free seminars as well as paid workshops.
?We keep growing,? Balaguer said. ?We?re still in our infancy. We hope to grow the event to 450 exhibitors next year.?
Some of the highlights from the event included:<.p>
Envision Solar International, a leading sustainable infrastructure product designer and developer, showcased the world?s first fully autonomous, fully mobile, fully renewable Electric Vehicle Charging state, The EV ARC.
Linear Technology Launched a 2.5A monolithic active cell balancer with telemetry interface. The LT8584 is a monolithic flyback DC/DC converter designed to actively balance high voltage stacks of batteries.
General Motors featured its initiative for solar charging. Chaired by Desmond Wheatley, President & CEO of Envision Solar, the Charging Infrastructure Conference addressed current investments and initiatives across public and private sectors, infrastructure models, growth, charging technology innovations and developments.
Show attendees also had a chance to see Spider9?s TriRack system, a modular 86 kilowatt-hour energy storage unit that is monitored, optimized and controlled by Spider9?s Energy Operating System.
