Hybrid Vehicles and Automotive System Design

Dear Colleagues,

Nowadays, hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles are playing an increasingly important role in transportation, having a positive footprint in the environment, and they are expected to dominate in the market. The design of hybrid vehicles and automotive systems is constantly evolving to provide superior energy efficiency, comfort, and handling. Today’s automotive systems in hybrid as well as new technology ICE vehicles are often equipped with smart and electronically actuated subsystems, where also the mechanical parts are fused with the electronic ones, resulting in integrated components. Energy harvesting is also a topic of great interest. Today, the most common methods for regaining energy are vibration energy harvesting through suspension systems and energy regeneration from braking.

This Special Issue focuses on current advances in the field of Hybrid Vehicles and Automotive System Design of Electronics. Topics of interest of this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

• Hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicle design;
• Hybrid vehicle propulsion systems and components;
• Motors and power electronic converters for hybrid vehicles;
• Fault diagnosis and tolerance for hybrid vehicles and automotive electronic systems;
• Energy storage for hybrid vehicles;
• Electronically actuated automotive parts;
• Automotive electronics;
• Magnetorheological dampers;
• Smart suspensions;
• Energy harvesting.

Prof. Dr. Pantelis G. Nikolakopoulos
Prof. Dr. Epaminondas D. Mitronikas
Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Tatakis
Prof. Dr. Jose A Antonino-Daviu
Guest Editors

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