Emerging Technologies for Wireless Power Transfer in Transportation

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite original research or review articles to a Special Issue of the journal Electronics on the topic of “Emerging Technologies for Wireless Power Transfer in Transportation”.

In recent years, the world has experienced a greatly renovated interest in the topic of electric vehicles (EVs), mainly because of the increasing environmental awareness of the general public and the equally growing perception that fossil fuels are a finite resource.

However, EVs are not exempt from problems that slow down their diffusion. The first main issue is the cost of this kind of vehicles, mainly related to the on-board batteries. Moreover, as well as being expensive, they do not guarantee an energy density comparable to that of fossil fuels, nor a similar charging time. The actual energy density of a Li-ion battery and improvements are slow because they do not follow Moore’s law due to the fact that batteries are governed by chemistry and not electronics. In the context of overcoming problems related to battery size and charging time, wireless power transfer (WPT) is now the subject of intensive research, both by academic institutions and automotive industry players. Wireless charging systems provide various advantages compared to conductive systems because they do not require to be manually plugged into a connector, which can be dangerous if weather conditions are not optimal. There are different types of WPTs which can be categorized as electromagnetic radiation-based (applicable for long-distance power transfer), magnetic (also known as inductive or resonant, used for short-distance power transfer), or capacitive, also used over short distances.

This Special Issue is dedicated to presenting recent advances and emerging technologies for WPT in transportation, and introducing, reviewing, and exploring case studies applied in different transport sectors and their possible integration. Welcome submissions include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Power devices and converters
• Communication, control, and energy management
• E-Highway
• Intelligent transportation management systems
• Innovative charging systems (static and dynamic charging) for electric vehicles (cars, bicycles, bikes, bus, tramways, etc.)
• Auxiliary systems for WPT (foreign and living object detection, position detection)
• Integrating EV with storage and grids
• State-of-the-art reviews on WPT in transportation.

Prof. Dr. Luis M. Fernández-Ramírez
Prof. Dr. Michela Longo
Prof. Dr. Siqi Li
Guest Editors

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