Edward JOBSON

Biographical note
Edward Jobson, is chief engineer for electromobility at Volvo Group.
He studied catalytic processes at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH Zürich) in Switzerland and graduated PhD in 1989. In 1998 he became associated professor at Chalmers Institute of Technology.
The research assignments at Volvo started in 1989 and have led to several inventions out of which 20 patents have been registered. He has been awarded “Henry Ford Award for technical excellence” in 2002 and the Volvo Technology Award in 2016.
Recently he was nominated the top level specialist on electro mobility for the Volvo Group. He has been the “architect” of several new public transport systems in a number of large cities.

Presentation: Charging technologies for electric buses
The operation of more than 10 000 city buses were studied on various markets around the globe. The observations were summarized as operational requirements and grouped into user classes such as non-stop operation, average city bus operation, peak-hour operation and school bus operation.
The analysis shows that some small groups of niche operations may require special charging solutions however for the vast majority of buses the analysis shows that a combination of atomized fast opportunity charging and slow charging is required to meet the requirements for almost all buses. When adding the cost and volume advantage by choosing solutions that utilize car charger technology the number of viable solutions in narrowed down. In order to enable charging of all types of buses, single decker and double decker’s and solutions that can be delivered by more than one supplier the group is further reduced to one available solution, OppCharge.