Introduction to Multiple Energy Sources Hybridization: The Future of Electric Vehicles?
Energy availability and cost is at the heart of today’s political and scientific agenda involving many economic, ecologic and geopolitical aspects. For instance, the European Council has established the objectives…
Intoduction to The Application of Electric Drive Technologies in City Buses
The environmental concerns and limited reserves of fossil fuels have generated an increased interest for alternative propulsive systems of vehicles. On the other hand, vehicle manufacturers are increasingly facing demands…
Introduction to Batteries and Supercapacitors for Electric Vehicles
Due to increasing gas prices and environmental concerns, battery propelled electric vehicles (BEVs) and hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) have recently drawn more attention. In BEV and HEV configurations, the rechargeable…
Introduction to Energy Efficiency of Electric Vehicles
In this chapter, the most important possibilities for increasing energy efficiency of electric vehicles would be considered, regarding energy savings accumulated in the vehicle itself and increasing the range of…
Introduction to Electric Vehicles − Consumers and Suppliers of the Electric Utility Systems
Electric vehicles (EVs) have been gaining attention in the last few years due to growing public concerns about urban air pollution and other environmental and resource problems. The technological evolution…
Introduction to The Contribution and Prospects of the Technical Development on Implementation of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
Population growth in the world had a constant value since the beginning of a new era to the 19th century when the population was 1 billion. The technological revolution is…
Introduction to Present and Future Role of Battery Electrical Vehicles in Private and Public Urban Transport
The OECD estimates that more than 70% of the developed world population lives in urban environments - , which explains a larger concentration of vehicles there. In the EU-27, there were…
Introduction to V2G Services for Renewable Integration
The world is presently facing many energy problems. Fossil fuels have been the main dominant energy source for both the transportation sector and power generation industry even if this energy…
Introduction to Load Leveling Utilizing Electric Vehicles and their Used Batteries
The massive dissemination of electric vehicles (EVs) is believed to be able to improve the total energy efficiency of the vehicles as well as reduce the emission of greenhouse gases…
Introduction to Switched Reluctance Drives with Degraded Mode for Electric Vehicles
In electric vehicles (EVs), the component responsible for providing mechanical torque is the motor. The main requirements for EV motors are high peak power, power density, compactness, high torque over…
