The 7th Seminar on Electric Vehicles is a closed event organized by ABVE and the INEE as part of the Challenge Bibendum 2010 . The event can be followed live via the Internet by interested parties from 14 to 18 hours of the 1st of June.
Worldwide sales of hybrid electric vehicles in the last decade has grown at an annual rate of 46% and sales in 2009 reached 750,000 cars. More expensive than conventional cars, have cornered the market for comfort, high efficiency and lower operating costs and environmental impacts. In 2009 nearly all automakers have announced the launch of electric vehicles (LVs) of various kinds.
Although the expansion is due mainly to hybrid vehicles, the explosive demand stimulated the research and improvement of electric drive components. Batteries with higher capacity and prospect of falling costs justify the diversification of the types of VE offered, including those that depend only on batteries and hybrid plug-in announced by several manufacturers.
Growing pro-active attitude of governments, notably the U.S., in favor of the electric drive by means of incentives to technological advances of the components and barriers to cars with higher emissions. The expectation is that the EV will become, in not too distant future, a new paradigm of activation within a process that has started.
By breaking a centuries-old tradition drive with internal combustion engines, the consequences are complex because they affect the world's largest industry. Understanding how the transition will occur and the effects on the Brazilian economy is very important, as is already beginning to organize a market in the country and many actors in this process are preparing to meet an explosive market that includes, besides the cars, the full range of automotive vehicles .
In this seventh Seminar on electric vehicles, organizers highlighted three themes to be discussed by the guests at round tables:
Road-Map for Electric Vehicles in Brazil
Several countries in the world have prepared studies (Road Map) with comprehensive analysis of expected changes in the economy, the automotive and components resulting from the introduction of an automotive drive where the components differ from current and at the same time, modify the structure of supply and energy use. The ABVE prepared a "road map" toward the Brazilian reality to inform and integrate all the actors involved in this process.
Electric Vehicles and Intelligent Electric Networks
The VE parked (for most cars, up 90% of the time) and connected to the grid, and charging the battery, can help improve the quality of electricity distributed by the local utility.
Hybrid Electric Vehicles to Ethanol
Due to the high intrinsic efficiency of hybrid vehicles and low emission engines powered with ethanol is easy to show that the Hybrid Electric Vehicle Ethanol will be "cleaner" in the world. For obvious reasons this could only happen in Brazil. Superficial analysis have put electric vehicles as threats to the use of ethanol as an assessment of the employment options of fuel occasioned by hybrid vehicles show that ethanol can replace significant amount of diesel.
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