Lecture Series

New Journey of Electric Vehicle Revolution: Strengthening Electrification & Advancing Intelligence, The Greater Bay Area Association of Academicians

Course Series:  New Journey of Electric Vehicle Revolution: Strengthening Electrification & Advancing Intelligence, The Greater Bay Area Association of Academicians Course title: Advanced Wireless Charging System for Autonomous Electric Vehicles Details: This presentation outlines the development of an advanced wireless charging system for autonomous electric vehicles (EVs). With global bans on internal combustion engine vehicles accelerating EV adoption, a robust charging infrastructure is essential. Wireless charging offers significant safety and integration advantages for autonomous EVs compared with conventional plug-in methods. However, widespread adoption faces challenges, including limited compatibility across vehicle models, diverse chassis heights, misalignment during parking, proprietary communication protocols, and high costs. The proposed solution decouples control and physical layers, enabling non-invasive fast installation, broad compatibility with varying vehicle designs and parking accuracies, and eliminating the need for EV software updates. Innovative system design further enhances misalignment tolerance and installation flexibility. Real-vehicle tests demonstrate a very high DC-DC charging efficiency across the long transfer distance (up to 245 mm). This system aims to make wireless charging accessible, safe, and effective for all autonomous EVs under any condition. Date and Time: 3:55 - 4:10 p.m. 23 October 2025 (Thursday) Venue: N101, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre Speaker: Prof. LIU Wei, Assistant Professor and Manager,  Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering & Research Centre for Electric Vehicles,  The Hong Kong Polytechnic University      

IEEE VTS Distinguished Lecture: Modern Electric Vehicles – From Research to Education

IEEE VTS Distinguished Lecture Modern Electric Vehicles – From Research to Education   Abstract—Electric vehicles (EVs) are one of the most important technological innovations that can save the environment. Over the years, there have been active EV research, leading to commercialization and popularization of EVs in recent years. Nevertheless, EV education is lagging behind the development of EVs. In this lecture, an overview of EVs will first be given. On the one hand, the latest EV research activities will be discussed and relevant directions will be identified. On the other hand, the emerging EV education including undergraduate and postgraduate levels will be presented.   Date: 6 December 2024 Venue: HKUST(GZ)

IEEE VTS Distinguished Lecture: Modern Electric Machines for Electric Vehicle Driving System

IEEE VTS Distinguished Lecture Modern Electric Machines for Electric Vehicle Driving System Abstract— Electric machines play a pivotal role in the driving systems of electric vehicles (EVs). Various types of electric machines have been researched and implemented for EV applications. In addition to conventional electric machines, emerging stator permanent magnet (PM) electric machines with enhanced performance have been proposed in recent years, offering improved heat dissipation efficiency and simplified, robust rotor structures. Among the different stator PM machine variants, flux-switching PM (FSPM) machines have gained significant attention due to their superior torque, power density, and reduced torque ripple. In this lecture, novel High-order-harmonic stator FSPM machines are introduced to enhance torque and fault tolerance capabilities for EV driving systems. Date: 6 December 2024 Venue: E4-101, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangdong, China

Motors for Electric Cars and Robotic Applications: Aspects of Design

Distinguished Lecture Motors for Electric Cars and Robotic Applications: Aspects of Design  Date: 31 October 2024 Venue: Online via ZOOM

Introduction to Wireless Charging Application for Electric Vehicle

Course Series:  APAS & IMIHK Event The Path to Green Hong Kong Course title:  Introduction to Wireless Charging Application for Electric Vehicle Details:  Traditional wired charging suffers from mesh cords and risks of electrocution, which may lead to inconvenience, disorder, and safety/reliability concerns. Recently, wireless charging has been recognized due to its safety, flexibility, mobility, reliability, efficiency, and environmental friendliness. More specifically, wireless charging enhances convenience by removing the hassle of physical connections, enabling electric vehicles to initiate charging automatically when aligned with a charging pad. The absence of exposed cables improves safety, minimizing risks like electrical shocks or weather-related damage from loose wires. Durable, weatherproof components further bolster system reliability by resisting moisture and debris. Moreover, wireless charging seamlessly integrates with autonomous driving technology, smart parking infrastructure, and automated payment platforms, simplifying the charging workflow and enabling fully hands-free functionality. Given these benefits, the wireless energy network is promising with everything being wireless in the network. This class will discuss relevant aspects of wireless charging for Electric Vehicle Energy Network, which includes the concept of the Wireless Electric Vehicle Energy Network; wireless charging device, architecture and infrastructure; systematic analyses; verifications of wireless energy charging, routing and trading; and foresight of wireless energy trading.  Date and Time: 25 July 2024 (Thursday) 2:30 - 5:00 p.m. Venue: 1/F, Inno Theatre 1, HKPC Building Speaker: Prof. LIU Wei Assistant Professor and Manager,  Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering & Research Centre for Electric Vehicles,  The Hong Kong Polytechnic University  

Direct Wireless Power Conversion – A New Generation of Power Conversion Technology

This course is part of HKIE Electrical Division Professional Short Course 2024. The class will give an overview of key DWPC systems, namely the wireless motors, wireless lamps, and wireless heaters. Their operation principles and emerging applications will also be discussed.

The Joseph Needham Foundation for Science and Civilisation Public Lectures on STEAM Education

This is to invite teachers and students of secondary schools to participate in the captioned events. Topic and synopsis of this lecture is the challenges and opportunities of novel electric vehicle technologies.