Electric Vehicles Expert Witnesses

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What is an electric vehicles expert witness?

Electric vehicles expert witness candidates typically have a background in automotive engineering, automobile manufacturing, electrical engineering, and/or mechanical engineering. An electric vehicle (EV) expert witness should have a deep understanding not only of the technology, but also of the EV market (market size, market growth, market trends) and competitive landscape. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, the lead attorney may request a technologist with prior expert witness testimony experience.

What types of cases require an electric vehicles expert witness?

Electric vehicle describes not only an electric car designed for road travel, but also encompasses rail vehicles, surface, and underwater vessels, as well as electric aircraft.

An electric vehicles expert witness could provide expertise in intellectual property matters such as a patent litigation a trade secret dispute. An expert in electric vehicles might also provide testimony in matters such as product liability cases, accident reconstruction, or personal injury cases.

Electric vehicles expert witness case examples

Cahn Litigation Services is frequently called upon by law firm clients to locate an expert witness that can support issues involving electric vehicle technology. Previously, the firm has searched for experts to support cases involving:

• hybrid electric vehicle technology,
• EV batteries or battery pack technology, and
• charging infrastructure technology.

What litigation support work might an electric vehicles expert witness be expected to perform?

Litigation support by an electric vehicle expert witness could include research and authoring expert reports, forensic engineering, providing expert opinions, and expert testimony in court. In addition, a law firm may seek an automotive industry expert for pre-litigation consultant work.

Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for an electric vehicles expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.

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Electric Vehicles Expert Witness - Representative Bios

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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Electric Vehicles experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Electric Vehicles landscape.

• Expert Witness #250076

  This expert brings to the table many years of experience and is an internationally recognized electric motor and motor drives expert. This expert has developed six university graduate and undergraduate courses in this technology, written several books on automotive motor drives and electrical systems, published over four hundred research papers in the area and served as a consultant to industry on motor and drive technologies. Further, this expert has over two dozen patents related to this technology, has worked with many automotive and supplier companies on automotive motors and their applications, and has represented companies in IP cases, as an expert witness.  This expert has served both on the plaintiff and defendant sides with success and has been deposed and testified in court dozens of times. This expert received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering.

  This expert is the author of over 400 publications in pulsed-power supplies, high-voltage engineering, power electronics, motor drives, and advanced vehicle systems. This expert has over 23 granted or pending US and EC patents. This expert's current research work is in power electronics, motor drives, hybrid vehicles and their control systems.

  This expert has been a member of IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) AdCom, IEEE-IAS Industrial Power Converter Committee and the IEEE Myron Zucker Student-Faculty Grant program. This expert is a Life Fellow of IEEE, an IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and Vehicular Technology Society Distinguished Speaker, IEEE Industry Applications Society and Power Engineering Society Distinguished Lecturer. This expert is a registered professional engineer.

  
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• Expert Witness #259350

  This expert holds a BS, MS, and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, and is a Licensed Professional Engineer. This expert has:

  -  extensive experience in automotive, and industrial equipment and systems;

  -  design of manufacturing operations and specialized equipment;

  -  authored and edited Operations and Maintenance manuals for plant equipment;

  -  experience with selection of electric motors for use both in manufacturing operation and in industrial machinery for powering pumps, fans, and other rotary motion;

  -  setup assembly line and batch type manufacturing processes for production of various parts, assemblies, and machines;

  -  worked with electric vehicles, both conversion from gasoline, and as manufactured

  -  knowledge of the operation of vehicle electric motors both as motive power and for auxiliary systems;

  -  diagnosed and repaired generators and alternators for vehicle system battery charging.

  This expert has many years of experience in the design, manufacture, repair, and operation of passenger and high-performance motorcycles and racing cars.

  
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• Expert Witness #250772

  This expert is Director of the Advanced Vehicle Systems Research Program at a research university. This expert is an expert in automotive drivetrain technology and extensively studies, publishes and teaches on oscillation, vibration and flexure of drivetrains. This expert's primary focus is on electrical and mechanical systems including imbalance issues, and the attendant noise and vibrations that occur, specifically the dynamics and analysis of mechanical vibrations on rotating and linear devices. This expert is a member of the society of Automotive engineers (SAE) and is a registered Professional Engineer. This expert has experience as an expert witness, having testified approximately a dozen times in court, and providing upwards of twenty depositions, primarily in patent matters.

  
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• Expert Witness #254749

  This automotive design expert founded and led a vehicle design studio and attended a prestigious design college in California, graduating with honors before being selected to work with a major European automaker in a newly created North American design studio.

  While at that automaker, this expert developed an interest in alternative fuel vehicles through participation in a concept design that formed the basis for a compact vehicle initially intended to be all-electric to meet the CARB mandate for automakers. Early successes helped establish a reputation as an innovative and conscientious automotive designer.

  This expert later joined a major international manufacturer entering the automotive arena, where the work involved concept designs supporting that transition. When a luxury auto manufacturer opened an American design studio, this expert was recruited for a senior design role as the first designer hired and contributed to the finished exterior design for a high-profile supercar show car.

  Building on early success, this expert focused on design work that offered clients strategic advantage through design. In the early 2000s, this expert established a design studio focused on design-driven vehicular design, design consulting, and product portfolio consultation. Clients have included international auto manufacturers, start-up vehicle companies, major aftermarket accessory suppliers, and powersports companies.

  This expert has served as a consultant and advisor to a Chinese vehicle manufacturer in creating brand design DNA and product lineup, including interior and UX design. This expert has also advised and consulted with a major automaker's research and development group on advanced and production design products.

  The design studio has continued to expand and engage in a variety of design projects, working with product companies that use design as a strategic advantage. Recent corporate work has involved OEM and other vehicle design categories, reflecting the continued influence of design across multiple vehicle markets.

  
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• Expert Witness #277135

  This vehicle design expert is a mechanical engineering graduate of a prestigious university whose professional career has focused on motorcycles and human factors engineering. In senior platform and vehicle engineering leadership roles, this expert has led engineering teams in developing new vehicles from concept through production and safety certification and has patents on two-wheeled vehicle designs. Design experience includes motorcycles, e-bicycles, and hybrid electric scooters, including brake components for high-performance motorcycles and hybrid scooters. This expert has worked on a number of product liability defense cases involving motorcycles.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant, having worked on over 100 trials and arbitrations.

  
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• Expert Witness #286387

  This automotive electronics, control systems, and failure analysis expert has expertise in electrical and electronic systems, including advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), automotive electronics, consumer electronics, electric vehicles (EVs), and other battery-powered devices, and holds a BS in Electrical Engineering (EE), an MS in EE, and a PhD focused on electronics, closed-loop feedback-based systems, and component/system integration.

  This expert specializes in evaluating the safety of electrical system designs, including failure analysis investigations and product liability issues. This expert has expertise in evaluating technologies for efficacy under diverse environmental conditions, variability in design implementation and sensor utilization, and performance across a wide variety of scenarios. These evaluations are supported by rigorous design analyses, extensive performance testing, and simulated-failure testing.

  This expert focuses on the analysis of complex control systems, large-scale and small-scale protection circuitry, device construction quality, and complete system functionality and performance. This expert works extensively on evaluating the safety of consumer and automotive electronics through component and system-level design reviews, electrical testing, and on-site inspections, and regularly performs failure analysis investigations relating to home, automotive, and industrial claims.

  This expert has a deep understanding of relay technology, functionality, and failure, is a registered PE with electrical and electronics expertise in Arizona, and has over 10 years of post-PhD experience in failure analysis, electronics design review, and risk analysis.

  
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• Expert Witness #286387

  This EV charging expert holds a PhD, is a PE, and has many years of experience investigating the safety, reliability, and performance of EV electrical, electronic, and control systems, as well as EV charging infrastructure. This expert has expertise in EV charging protocols, standards, and risks associated with EV charging across different vehicle manufacturers, EV charging station technologies, and charge port designs.

  
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• Expert Witness #286984

  This plumbing systems and HVAC/mechanical systems expert is a Licensed Professional Engineer and United States Patent Agent whose work is performed in support of litigation, intellectual property disputes, product recalls, insurance investigations, and industrial problem solving. This expert has critiqued product infringement issues within the scope of patent protection and has investigated, analyzed, and reconstructed accidents involving vehicles, machines, mechanical systems, and industrial equipment.

  This expert is a member of several professional organizations, including prominent mechanical engineering, automotive engineering, testing standards, accident reconstruction, and heating, refrigeration, and air-conditioning engineering associations.

  HVAC and plumbing systems experience includes failure analysis of commercial and residential climate control systems, boilers, chillers, humidifiers, commercial cooling towers, radiators, underground piping, frozen pipes, valves, meters, and sprinklers. Intellectual property experience includes reviewing patents and subject products, analyzing the design or performance of products within the scope of associated claims, and creating visual aids to demonstrate conclusions. Experience also includes patent drafting and prior art searches. Product examples include home goods, agricultural equipment, industrial equipment, and toys. Mechanical systems experience includes completing analysis on the design, installation, maintenance, and failure of systems in multiple application areas, including transportation, heavy industry, food industry, exercise equipment, medical equipment, agricultural equipment, home appliances, and office equipment. The analysis is performed with the aid of product research, standards research, product testing, and computational modeling. Examples of transportation include heavy and light vehicles, car haulers, motorcycles, motorized carts, steering systems, brake systems, fifth wheels, axles, drivelines, suspensions, restraint systems, lift gates, combustion motors, superchargers, and turbochargers. Examples of heavy industry include forklift trucks, street sweepers, electric and combustion motors, generators, compressors, industrial pumps, industrial fans, conveyors, crushers, shaker screens, spindles, grinders, industrial peelers, chippers, gearboxes, hydraulic systems, dust collectors, ladders, automated doors and gates, heavy gears, roller bearings, slewing rings, seals, machine guarding, mechanical and powered tools, machining centers, industrial racks, industrial chains, roustabouts, man lifts, elevators, cold forming equipment, forging equipment, safety devices, and safety clothing. Examples of the food industry include can seamers, industrial water purifiers, mixers, and processing equipment. Examples of exercise equipment include stability balls and weightlifting equipment.

  
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• Expert Witness #292251

  This battery expert has over 45 years of experience in the battery industry, beginning with work on lead-acid batteries for electric vehicles and later developing expertise with Pb-acid SLI and Li-ion technologies.

  This expert has experience with nearly every electrochemical couple and has been involved in the development of nickel metal hydride, lithium ion, and polymer chemistries. This expert later founded a battery technology company and has since been involved in the development of advanced batteries, processes, and failure modes and effects analysis.

  This expert is the author of numerous papers, holds several battery-related patents, has investigated over 100 battery-related incidents, and has testified on several occasions.

  
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• Expert Witness #292265

  This battery expert has experience across nearly all battery chemistries, including significant safety testing for a major space agency and other customers at a private test facility.

  This expert has also built prototypes involving chemistries used in hybrid vehicle platforms, as well as lead-acid batteries. Much of this expert's work over the years has involved troubleshooting battery failures across many devices and system designs, including spaceflight systems, defense applications, medical applications, and electric vehicles.

  This expert's expert witness experience spans over 25 years and includes numerous battery failures and causation analyses involving lithium-ion, lead-acid, alkaline, and other battery chemistries. This expert has been involved in dozens of cases and has written numerous reports regarding the causes of battery failures.

  
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• Expert Witness #2372756

  This EV charging and automotive systems expert holds degrees in Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Chemical Engineering, is a lean six-sigma black belt and Licensed Professional Engineer, and has over 40 years of real-world experience designing, testing, and developing electrical systems for automotive applications. This expert is also a patent attorney registered with the USPTO, with extensive experience serving as an expert in IP-related matters, ITC matters, and Inter Partes Review proceedings.

  This expert has served as an automotive industry expert in a trade secret theft case involving electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles. This expert is also experienced in EV battery systems and control systems.

  This expert has extensive experience in vehicle telematics systems, units, and methods, as well as in writing, developing, and testing automotive products and components. This expert also has experience with related engineering specifications, product acceptance testing, control plans, PPAP, Failure Modes and Effects Analyses (FMEAs), and Design Validation Plans and Reports (DVPRs).

  This expert has testified over 95 times and has extensive deposition and trial testimony experience, including testimony in IP and patent litigation cases. This expert has authored numerous reports and declarations for intellectual property and patent matters, analyzed patents and prior art in numerous patent cases involving automotive and vehicle systems and components, conducted hundreds of forensic investigations, and supported at least 50 IPRs, testifying in over 15 of them.

  This expert has served as an expert witness in infringement, non-infringement, patent validity, and patent invalidity matters, including issues involving Sections 101, 102, 103, and 112 and prior art arguments. This expert thoroughly understands the issues involved in intellectual property and patent litigation and has drafted numerous reports and declarations addressing infringement and non-infringement, claim construction, validity, and invalidity in IPRs, Federal District Courts, and ITC cases.

  
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