Dear Colleagues,

When we talk about the concepts Connected, Autonomous, Shared, Electrified, Sustainable (CASES), we mean looking at the transformation of mobility in terms of vehicle technology and responsibility when making this decision. To understand what form this revolution will take, we need to look at the three main trends that affect the mobility of the future.

1. Electrified vehicles—these are products that undergo constant technical and technological changes.
2. Software Defined Vehicles—To meet the needs of the future electric vehicle market, knowledge of the specialized software used by the vehicle itself, as well as the surrounding infrastructure, is needed.
3. Autonomous Vehicles—Autonomous Transport Systems (ATS) use a dense network of sensors and processing units to observe the driving environment and transmit commands to their subsystems to make the most connected and sustainable use of vehicle and infrastructure resources.

In the CASES acronym, the terms Connected and Shared are strongly associated with changes in the decision-making process along the value chain. There is a clear difference between decisions made in the past regarding electric vehicles for autonomy programming and those that need to be made to create the vehicle of the future. What is particularly acute is the pace of changes in technical and technological solutions, e.g., in terms of drives, types of fuels, charging stations, the operating costs of an electric vehicle and software, or the autonomy of the vehicle. From a scientific perspective, it seems important to understand whether these changes will occur gradually, whether a revolution awaits us in the near future, or whether barriers have appeared to the mobility of the future generation.

This Special Edition provides a place to discuss this research problem, given the increased interest in issues related to technological and technical progress in the field of CASES vehicles and the lack of publications related to this research topic.

Dr. Wojciech Lewicki
Prof. Dr. Wojciech Drożdż
Prof. Dr. Ewelina Sendek-Matysiak
Prof. Dr. Zbigniew Łosiewicz
Guest Editors

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• electric vehicle
• low emission vehicle
• innovative technologies
• evolution of drive units
• vehicle—intrastructure—software connection
• technological barriers
• electric vehicle operating costs
• charging stations
• intelligent software
• autonomous vehicle
• urban transport
• sustainable vehicle
• infrastructure for the mobility of the next generation
• processes digitization
• smart grids