As electric vehicle batteries push toward higher energy densities and ultra-fast charging, thermal management is becoming a defining factor in safety, performance, and system longevity. Managing heat effectively is essential to enabling new battery and vehicle architectures.

Building on the themes and questions explored in our technology insight, this follow-up live roundtable brings together three leading subject-matter experts to examine how EV thermal management is evolving.

The session will address:

• How mature today’s EV battery thermal management systems are, and how well current approaches are keeping pace with rising energy densities and charging speeds
• Which thermal management challenges – from heat generation and thermal runaway prevention to efficiency losses – are the most critical to solve as battery performance demands escalate
• Which emerging cooling technologies, materials, and control strategies show the most promise, and how close they are to production readiness
• How thermal management designers are balancing the competing demands of safety, sustainability, cost, and performance, and where the hardest trade-offs lie
• Whether today’s thermal management architectures are a foundation for the next decade of battery evolution, or a dead end that will need to be rethought