The 29th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON2003) Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center Roanoke, Virginia, USA (November 2 to 6, 2003) Special Session on Advanced Electric Vehicle(EV) Drive Technology Organized by Dr. Chandan Chakraborty Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. & Professor Takamasa Hori Aichi University of Technology, Japan The scope of the special session includes (i) Motor Control in EV (ii) Special motors for EV (iii) Power converters suitable for EV application (iv) EV motion control High quality papers on the above topics are invited from the experts working in the area of Electric Vehicles. For details of the conference, please visit http://iecon03.crts.vt.edu