Special Issue "Hybrid Vehicles"

Guest Editor
Dr. Giovanni Pede
Dipartimento TER, Casaccia Research Centre, Via Anguillarese, 301 00060 Roma, Italy
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Phone: +39 06 3048 4312

Guest Editor
Dr. Srdjan Lukic
Advanced Transportation Energy Center, North Carolina State University, 1017 Main Campus Drive, Suite 2100 Raleigh, NC 27606, USA
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Phone: +1 919 513 2842
Fax: +1 919 513 0405

Dear Colleagues,

Hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs) constitute an interesting solution for the reduction of fuel consumption and pollutant emissions with respect to conventional vehicles, while maintaining comparable performances and ranges. They can also be realized with limited modifications to existing manufacturing processes; moreover, they can normally operate not only in hybrid mode, but also in purely electric mode, this way reaching the condition of zero emissions.

The basis of the growth of hybrid technology is electric storage, and electrochemical batteries, and even supercapacitors, are researched and developed in a variety of chemistries and configurations to better meet the continuously changing technical and economical requirements for battery-powered electric vehicles (EVs), hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), but, to actually achieve the potential advantages of HEVs the powertrain structure and the energy management logic have to be carefully selected and matched.

The special issue covers current trends and future developments of HEV technology, including both mechanical as well as electrical engineering aspects.

Dr. Srdjan Lukic
Dr. Giovanni Pede
Guest Editors

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• electric vehicles
• hybrid-electric vehicles
• electrochemical batteries
• supercapacitors
• power management strategy
• modelling
• simulations
• fuel economy