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CASES Vehicles and the Mobility of the Next Generation

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "E: Electric Vehicles".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 2861

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Faculty of Economics, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, 70-310 Szczecin, Poland
Interests: automobile industry; EU regulations; smart city; telematics; electromobility
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Institute of Management, University of Szczecin, 70-453 Szczecin, Poland
Interests: electromobility; logistics of energy sector; Industry 4.0; smart grids; smart cities
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Faculty of Management and Computer Modeling, Kielce University of Technology, Al. Tysiąclecia Państwa Polskiego 7, 25-314 Kielce, Poland
Interests: transport; modeling of transportation processes and systems; multi-criteria decision support; transport ecology; electromobility; optimization
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Interests: marine engines and drives; shipping; security engineering; environmental protection; electromobility

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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
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Keywords

  • 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

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Computational Investigation on the Performance Increase of a Small Industrial Diesel Engine Regarding the Effects of Compression Ratio, Piston Bowl Shape and Injection Strategy
by Raphael Hatz, Alexander Lukas, Andreas Zepf and Malte Jaensch
Energies 2022, 15(13), 4674; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15134674 - 25 Jun 2022
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This paper describes the simulative approach to calibrate an already extremely highly turbocharged industrial diesel engine for higher low-speed torque. The engine, which is already operating at its cylinder-pressure maximum, is to achieve close to 30 bar effective mean pressure through suitable calibration [...] Read more.
This paper describes the simulative approach to calibrate an already extremely highly turbocharged industrial diesel engine for higher low-speed torque. The engine, which is already operating at its cylinder-pressure maximum, is to achieve close to 30 bar effective mean pressure through suitable calibration between the compression ratio, piston-bowl shape and injection strategy. The basic idea of the study is to lower the compression ratio for even higher injection masses and boost pressures, with the resulting disadvantages in the area of emissions and fuel consumption being partially compensated for by optimizations in the areas of piston shape and injection strategy. The simulations primarily involve the use of the 3D CFD software Converge CFD for in-cylinder calibration and a fully predictive 1D full-engine model in GT Suite. The simulations are based on a two-stage turbocharged 1950 cc four-cylinder industrial diesel engine, which is used for validation of the initial simulation. With the maximum increase in fuel mass and boost pressure, the effective mean pressure could be increased up to 28 bar, while specific consumption increased only slightly. Depending on the geometry, NOx or CO and UHC emissions could be reduced. Full article
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