Special Issue "Vehicle Technologies for Sustainable Smart Cities and Societies"

Dear Colleagues,

The process of introducing electric vehicles, which represents one of the largest political projects in recent decades, also poses an extraordinary challenge for engineers and scientists. Governments and industry are investing enormous amounts of resources in this project. This project's importance and expectations correspond to immense activities in developing and researching electric vehicles. Therefore, it is crucial that those involved in working in the fields of electric vehicles have enough state-of-the-art knowledge and that they have access to the experiences gained by engineers in neighboring fields. This is also the purpose of this Special Issue: that engineers and scientists who have conjured up new knowledge and findings while working in the field of electric vehicles can transfer this knowledge to others.

In this Special Issue, we invite contributions from the fields of research, development, design, and manufacturing of electric vehicles and the necessary infrastructure, as well as from the fields of application of electric vehicles and their technical, economic, and social impact on other systems and the environment. Although the term electric vehicles mainly refers to electric cars, this Special Issue is not limited in scope to cars alone. Articles from the fields of aircraft and electric boats and submarines are also welcome.

The scope of the Special Issue is vast; we invite contributions which deal with the following topics:

• Powertrains for electric vehicles (motors, generators, frequency converters, and control algorithms);
• Batteries and battery management systems;
• Sensors and sensor networks;
• Fuel cells in electric vehicles;
• Charging infrastructure for electric vehicles;
• The influence of electric vehicles on the power system (stabilization and V2G);
• Autonomous driving solutions;
• Activities for the public promotion of electric vehicles;
• Seaborne and airborne electric vehicles;
• Energy harvesting;
• IoT for sustainable mobility;
• Cybersecurity;
• Internet of vehicles (IoV).

Dr. Nikolay Hinov
Prof. Dr. Darius Andriukaitis
Dr. Jožef Ritonja
Guest Editors

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• electric vehicles
• electric vehicle (EV) powertrains
• EV energy sources
• EV components
• autonomous drive
• charging stations
• EV in power systems
• Internet of vehicles (IoV)