Advanced Automotive Batteries (AAB), the key information source for the advanced automotive battery industry, offers conferences, industry reports and expert consulting. Dr. Menahem Anderman, co-author of the 2000 California Air Resources Board Battery Report, founded Advanced Automotive Batteries to provide up-to-date technology and market assessments of the rapidly growing field of energy storage for advanced automotive applications. The annual International Advanced Automotive Battery Conference (AABC) attracts key industry players from the hybrid and electric vehicle world and their battery system suppliers. AABC 2013 will be held at the Pasadena Convention Center, February 4-8, 2013. With its outstanding agenda and dynamic networking events, AABC Europe is hailed as the "must attend" battery conference in Europe. AABC Europe 2013 will be held in Strasbourg, France, June 24-28, with a program focused on the activities and needs of European automakers. AAB is soon to release a multi-client industry report, Assessing the Future of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles: The xEV Industry Insider Report, a market forecast based on private onsite interviews with leading technologist and executives worldwide. The Report includes forecasts for each significant automaker and battery producer, based on onsite interviews with all four tiers of the supply chain.