The 2008 CAFE Foundation
Electric Aircraft Symposium
San Francisco, California April 26, 2008
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CAFE Foundation President Brien Seeley
and EAS Presenter Dr. Ben Santer |
The CAFE Foundation's 2nd Annual Electric Aircraft Symposium saw presentations that justify the rapidly increasing interest in Green personal air travel. Sponsored by Foundation Capital, the April 26, 2008 meeting assembled an outstanding faculty to discuss the many aspects of electric-powered flight. It included an remarkable announcement by the Experimental Aircraft Association that it has filed a request for the FAA to allow electric propulsion in low cost aircraft.
The event was well-attended by members of the science and technology media. Updates on the Aviation's Green Prize will be posted soon on the CAFE website. In all, the 2008 EAS made the dream of a 100 MPG PAV look a lot closer than most thought.
Electric Aircraft Symposium 2008 Program:
- Supporting Converging Technologies: Adam Grosser, Foundation Capital
- How Do We Know That Human Activities Have Influenced Global Climate?: Dr. Ben Santer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Origins of Electric Flight: Power and Structures: Dr. Morton Grosser, Gossamer Albatross Team
- Quest for Lossless, Massless Motors: Wally Rippel, AC Propulsion
- Optimized Electric Drive Systems: Alan Cocconi, AC Propulsion
- Selecting Brushless Motors and Controllers for UAV’s: David Palombo, AVEOX
- Design Space For Efficient Aircraft: Professor cp van Dam, Chair, aeronautical engineering UC Davis
- An Ideal Electric Aircraft: Greg Cole, designer eSparrowhawk, Lancair Legacy and Evolution
- The Green Prize: Technology Prize for 100 MPG Aircraft: Brien Seeley, CAFE Foundation President
- Taurus Electro - The Future Now: Ivo Boscarol & Tine Tomazic, Pipistrel Aircraft, Slovenia
- Advanced Navigation: Enabling a Path to Enhancing Safety While Saving Energy: Paul Siegmund, Director, Aircraft Programs, Naverus Inc
- Next Generation of Li-ion Batteries with Nanowires: Yi Cui, Assistant Professor, Stanford Nanomaterials Science and Engineering
- Electric Propulsion-Enabled Advanced Air Vehicles: Mark Moore: NASA Langley
- Multi-Fuel Propulsion Technologies: Greg Stevenson, GSE
- Hybrid Drives in UAVs: Sam B. Wilson AVID LLC:
- Fuels in our future: Jay Keller/Neil Rossmeissl, Sandia Lab/DOE Biomass Program
- Hybridizing Light Aircraft: Ron Gremban, CalCars
- Personal Transportation Systems Technologies: Richard Jones, Boeing Phantom Works, Seattle
- Low Noise Propeller Design: Jack Norris, Voyager Mission Director
- The Future of Personal Aviation: Announcement: Craig Willan, Experimental Aircraft Association, Oshkosh, WI.
Media Coverage of the 2008 Electric Aircraft Symposium:
| Title |
Publication |
Date |
| Heading skyward to beat gridlock |
BBC News |
May 7, 2008 |
| Who Birthed the Electric Plane? |
PopularScience.com |
May 6, 2008 |
| KITPLANES Coverage of Electric Airplane Symposium 2008 |
KITPLANES |
May 3, 2008 |
| Personal, 'green' airplanes propel forward |
CNET News |
April 30, 2008 |
| Electric Airplanes Take Flight. Get Yours Now |
Wired Blogs |
April 29, 2008 |
| Electric Planes Take Off |
Conde Nast Porfolio |
April 29, 2008 |
| EAA Asks FAA To Authorize Use Of Electric Motors In Ultralights, LSAs |
Aero-News.net |
April 28, 2008 |
| Will Electric Planes Take Off? |
GreenTechmedia |
April 28, 2008 |
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Selected Presentations (PDF Format)
| Title |
Presenter |
File Size |
| Electric Aircraft Symposium 2008 Opening Remakrs |
Adam Grosser, Foundation Capital |
600 KB |
| A Green Prize for Transportation |
Brien Seeley M.D., CAFE Foundation |
11.3 MB |
| How Do We Know That Human Activities Have Influenced Global Climate? |
Dr. Ben Santer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
9 MB |
| Optimized Electric Drive Systems |
Alan Cocconi |
4.4 MB |
| Design Space for Efficient Aircraft |
C.P. Van Dam, University of California Davis |
3.6 MB |
| Taurus Electro - The Future Now |
Ivo Boscarol & Tine Tomazic, Pipistrel Aircraft, Slovenia |
21.5 MB |
Advanced Navigation: Enabling a Path to
Enhancing Safety While Saving Energy |
Paul Siegmund, Naverus |
6 MB |
| Electric Propulsion Enabled Advanced Air Vehicles |
Mark D. Moore, NASA Langley Research Center |
2.6 MB |
| Multi-Fuel Propulsion Technologies |
Greg Stevenson, GSE |
22 MB |
| GSE & AVID LLC's Contribution to the Future of Personal Air Transportation & a 100 MPG Aircraft |
Sam B. Wilson, AVID LLC |
40 MB |
| Hybridizing Light Aircraft |
Ron Gremban, CalCars |
2.2 MB |
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