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Everybody has a good battery story to tell
OK, maybe not everyone has a battery story to tell, let alone a good one. For example, I don’t have one. But the thousands upon thousands of engineers, chemists, researchers, executives, analysts, academics, and others involved to one extent or another in the battery industry do. The editors at SAE International’s Magazines unit encourage you, the readers of Vehicle Electrification, to tell us your best battery story(ies). We can’t promise that every story we are told will make it onto these pages or the pages of our sister publications (Automotive Engineering International, SAE Offhighway Engineering, Aerospace Engineering). But your story certainly cannot be told if we never hear about it. We know there are great stories out there. We see them in newspapers and other magazines. We read them in company news releases. And we hear them firsthand at conferences. In fact, much of the content in this edition of Vehicle Electrification came directly out of January’s Advanced Automotive Battery Conference held by the consulting firm Advanced Automotive Batteries. Quoted widely in this edition is the President of that company, Menahem Anderman, a well-known ex-

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pert with an extensive technical background in batteries. There is only so much space in the quarterly Vehicle Electrification, which concerns all aspects of vehicle electrification and which addresses each of the three mobility sectors SAE serves. Fortunately, this digital publication is part of a larger network of SAE Magazine websites that allow for an infinite number of articles. The editors will write as many articles as finite time permits in that infinite space. But we also want to fill some of that space with stories of your own. After all, we’re only editors. We have an important role to play, but you are the ones out there on the front lines getting your hands dirty, sometimes literally, in producing products that, because of issues such as global warming, could have an enormous, dare I say existential, impact on every person on the planet. What you say matters. The world needs to hear your story. Let us help you tell it. Contact us at electrification@ sae.org.

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