The Future Development of Automobile Energy

Dear colleagues, greetings from the Special Issue Editors.

We are inviting submissions to a Special Issue of Energies Journal on the key subject area of the future development of automobile energy.

New powertrains and onboard energy storage and conversion systems are at the forefront of application developments in electric, hybrid-electric, biofueled, and hydrogen fueled cars.

Onboard energy storage and powertrain technologies are crucial to achieving critical global targets in efficiency, low-carbon, and low-emissions operations of cars.

Availability and future exploitability of conventional energy resources, as well as accessibility and practical usability of renewable resources and new energy vectors for automobiles play a key role in the overall system sustainability.

The Special Issue, also titled “The Future Development of Automobile Energy,” is focused on the combination of new and efficient onboard technologies, suitable for large scale application, and sustainable complex energy systems.

Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:

• Automobile energy systems
• Energy vectors, integration with renewables and energy storage
• Hybridization levels and development of mild, full, plug-in hybrids
• Electric vehicles
• Charging infrstructure, technologies, and strategies
• Vehicle-to-X and Mini-Grids
• Energy storage technologies and strategies
• Biofuels
• Hydrogen, fuel cells
• Lithium-ion battery developments 
• Energy Systems analysis, modeling, and control
• Modeling and simulation of efficiency, reliability, safety
• Experimental research and real drive tests
• Smartification and Intelligent systems

This Special Issue, therefore, seeks to contribute to the energy sustainability agenda through enhanced technological and scientific knowledge in automobiles.

We therefore invite research papers on innovative technical developments, reviews, case studies, analytical, as well as assessment which are relevant to improve the sustainability of automobile energy.

Prof. Dr. Fabio Orecchini
Prof. Dr. Fabrizio Zuccari
Prof. Dr. Adriano Santiangeli
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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