BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Vancouver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211107T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20220217T032026Z UID:900D4DB3-E2BB-4981-8EEC-A1E3C9B7693C DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220216T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220216T191500 DESCRIPTION:Blue Dot Motorworks\, a Seattle-based startup\, is developing a family of bolt-on retrofit systems to convert existing vehicles in to plu g-in hybrids. The motivation for this approach lies in the slow turnover o f the global vehicle fleet. For example\, if non plug-in vehicle productio n were completely phased out by 2027\, a dramatically more aggressive stra tegy than anything being adopted anywhere\, the resulting vehicle emission s would consume 230% of the remaining 1.5 C carbon budget. Closing the gap with additional new EVs would: cost $38 trillion\; require 700% more batt ery production than predicted\; destroy $15 trillion-worth of existing veh icles\; necessitate 2.8 million additional chargers\; and emit over 3 Giga tonnes of CO2 in the production and scrapping processes.\n\nRetrofitting e xisting vehicles as plug-in hybrids addresses all of these issues. The mis sing link is a technology that can be scaled to the magnitude of the chall enge. Blue Dot Motorworks has achieved scalability through vehicle agnosti cism. By taking a deliberately un-integrated approach\, leveraging common vehicle interfaces\, keeping the installation process simple and consisten t\, and baking adaptability in to the product architectures\, the systems can be mass produced at the lowest possible price and installed by third p arties. Blue Dot Motorworks has performed multiple rounds of prototyping a nd has demonstrated the feasibility\, practicality\, usability\, and perfo rmance of the approach. They are now seeking their first round of external funding to commercialize the technology.\n\nCo-sponsored by: ITS Canada\, http://www.itscanada.ca/\n\nSpeaker(s): Tom Gurski\, \n\nVirtual: https:/ /events.vtools.ieee.org/m/299961 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/299961 ORGANIZER:anewton@ieee.org SEQUENCE:8 SUMMARY:The Why\, the What\, and the How of Retrofit Plug-in Hybridization URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/299961 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>Blue Dot Motorworks\, a Seattle-based star tup\, is developing a family of bolt-on retrofit systems to convert existi ng vehicles in to plug-in hybrids. The motivation for this approach lies i n the slow turnover of the global vehicle fleet. For example\, if non plug -in vehicle production were completely phased out by 2027\, a dramatically more aggressive strategy than anything being adopted anywhere\, the resul ting vehicle emissions would consume 230% of the remaining 1.5 C carbon bu dget. Closing the gap with additional new EVs would: cost $38 trillion\; r equire 700% more battery production than predicted\; destroy $15 trillion- worth of existing vehicles\; necessitate 2.8 million additional chargers\; and emit over 3 Gigatonnes of CO<sub>2</sub> in the production and scrapp ing processes.</p>\n<p>Retrofitting existing vehicles as plug-in hybrids a ddresses all of these issues. The missing link is a technology that can be scaled to the magnitude of the challenge. Blue Dot Motorworks has achieve d scalability through vehicle agnosticism. By taking a deliberately un-int egrated approach\, leveraging common vehicle interfaces\, keeping the inst allation process simple and consistent\, and baking adaptability in to the product architectures\, the systems can be mass produced at the lowest po ssible price and installed by third parties. Blue Dot Motorworks has perfo rmed multiple rounds of prototyping and has demonstrated the feasibility\, practicality\, usability\, and performance of the approach. They are now seeking their first round of external funding to commercialize the technol ogy.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR