Donghee Han

Senior Vice President, Hyundai Motor Company, Korea

It would be one of the most important mission for the mankind to achieve the carbon neutrality for our future generation. We, Hyundai Motor Group, have been concentrating our efforts to overcome the major challenges of the electrification of mobility with various innovative technologies to realize the carbon neutrality in mobility system. We will be presenting some examples of our engineering achievements to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our electrified propulsion systems. We also would like to present our efforts to find the most effective technical roadmap towards the carbon neutrality again focusing on the efficiency and effectiveness.

I.P. Park

President, LG Sciencepark, Korea

The President & CEO of LG Sciencepark, Dr. I.P. Park, will address key challenges on the road to future mobility and share the latest in LG Group’s mobility innovation journey.

Patty Monahan

Commissioner, California Energy Commission, USA

California is a global leader in developing policies, regulations, and incentive programs to mitigate climate change and achieve economy-wide decarbonization by 2045. Today the transportation sector is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the state, accounting for more than half of the total when including upstream processes such as fossil fuel extraction and refining. Zeroing out transportation emissions is equally critical to improving public health, particularly for the most vulnerable communities that are disproportionately exposed and affected by harmful pollution. In 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom established the goal for reaching 100 percent zero emission passenger vehicles sales 2035, 100 percent of zero emission drayage and off-road equipment operations in 2035, and 100 percent zero emission operations of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles in 2045. The California Air Resources Board is establishing vehicle regulations to meet the Governor’s Executive Order and sales of zero emission vehicles (ZEVs) have been growing as a result. California’s zero emission passenger vehicle sales share has grown from 8 percent in 2020 to 25 percent in 2023. To meet state goals, California Energy Commission (CEC) projects the need for more than 1.1 million public and shared private electric vehicle chargers by 2030 and more than 2 million by 2035. Today there are approximately 100,000 public and shared private chargers operating in California, meaning the state will need a ten-fold increase over the next seven years. The CEC has developed a portfolio of grants, incentives, and regulations to help swiftly grow the public charging network, to improve its reliability and the driver experience, and to make access more equitable. This presentation will highlight California’s progress and key programs for the great ZEV implementation.

C. C. Chan

Professor, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

The core of Automotive Revolution is Electrification, Intelligence, and Connected. Two stages: The first half of the automotive revolution is electrification, and the second half is intelligence and internet-connected. Two challenges: 1. The friendly interaction between EVs and power grids；2. Integration of people, vehicle, road and cloud; and develop corresponding standards. Strengthening fundamental cutting-edge research from materials to components to systems; from hardware to software, and domain centralized in electrical electronic architect. One vision: From intelligent connected vehicles to intelligent transportation, to smart cities, to a smart society. Ultimate goal: People-oriented, harmonious coexistence between human and nature. We are privileged and proud to be engaged in the electric vehicle resolution that have significant impacts to global sustainable development and the welfare of our future generation.