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…
Introduction to State of the Art of Magnetic Gears, their Design, and Characteristics with Respect to EV Application
Electric vehicles (EVs) offer promising solutions for sustainable transport, but their development is hampered by a number of technological challenges . To be competitive with internal combustion engines, EVs must…
Introduction to Passenger Exposure to Magnetic Fields in Electric Vehicles
The traction drive of an electric car is an electrical system of considerable power, ranging from 40 to 120 kW. Even higher power levels are found in high‐end models or…
Introduction to Status and Trend of Power Semiconductor Module Packaging for Electric Vehicles
During the last few decades, people have made great efforts on exploiting sustainable and clean energy to mitigate the global crisis of fossil energy and deterioration of environment. Accordingly, the…
Introduction to Simulation in the Loop of Electric Vehicles
IPG CarMaker is a simulation environment used to simulate a computer representation of a real vehicle with the behaviour matching the real vehicle. In this environment, the user creates the…
