C.C.Chan was born in 1937. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Hong Kong, in 1982. His work is directly involved in the forefront of electric machines, electric drive, electric vehicles, and smart energy systems. He has made great contributions in building up the fundamental theory of modern electric vehicles and exploring the correlation between energy and information. He proposed many insightful concepts most recently, including smart energy system, energy computer, energy bank, and so forth. He was elected as Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering U.K., in 1997.