Dr. Ali Emadi is the founder and chief technology officer of Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technologies, Inc., which is a start-up company of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago, USA. He is also a professor of electrical engineering and the director of the Electric Power and Power Electronics Center and Grainger Laboratories at IIT, where he has established research and teaching facilities as well as courses in power electronics, motor drives, and vehicular power systems. He is also the founder, director, and chairman of the board of the Industry/Multi-university Consortium on Advanced Automotive Systems (IMCAAS).

 

Dr. Emadi is the principal author/co-author of over 200 journal and conference papers as well as several books including Vehicular Electric Power Systems (Marcel Dekker, 2003), Energy Efficient Electric Motors (Marcel Dekker, 2004), and Uninterruptible Power Supplies and Active Filters (CRC Press, 2004). He is also the co-author of Modern Electric, Hybrid Electric, and Fuel Cell Vehicles (CRC Press, 2004). Dr. Emadi is also the editor of the Handbook of Automotive Power Electronics and Motor Drives (Marcel Dekker, 2005).

 

Dr. Emadi was the General Chair of the 1^st IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference (VPPC’05), which was co-located under his chairmanship with the SAE International Future Transportation Technology Conference. He is currently the Chair of the 2007 IEEE International Future Energy Challenge. He is also the Chair of the Technical Committee on Transportation Power Electronics, IEEE Power Electronics Society. In addition, he is the Chair of the Vehicular Power Electronics and Drives Technical Sub-Committee, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society.

 

Dr. Emadi is the Editor (North America) of the International Journal of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles. He has been the Guest Editor-in-Chief of the Special Issue on Automotive Power Electronics and Motor Drives, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. He has also been the Guest Editor of the Special Section on Hybrid Electric and Fuel Cell Vehicles, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He is currently the Guest Editor of the Special Section on Automotive Electronics and Electrical Drives, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

Hybrid and Plug-in Hybrid Conversion

 

This keynote speech is focused on hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) drivetrain configurations and presents a review of conversion strategies to hybridize different vehicles. In addition, different plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) configurations and business models will be presented with a focus on engineering fundamentals as well as state-of-the-art research and development in the areas of PHEV components and system integration. The motivation for the research, development, and commercialization of hybrid and plug-in hybrid conversion technologies will be explained. Various HEVs and PHEVs as well as conversion kits, which have recently been introduced, will be reviewed.

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