New Solutions for Sustainable Mobility Infrastructures and Grid Integration
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 13 March 2026 | Viewed by 105
Special Issue Editors
Interests: electric vehicles; EV power demand forecasting; charging hub
Interests: smart materials and devices; energy harvesting; magnetic sensors and actuators; wireless power transfer; green mobility
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A large-scale transition to more sustainable mobility solutions is of undeniable urgency. Research and industry have been investigating different approaches to make this shift affordable over the last decades. Electric and hydrogen vehicles seem to be the most promising solutions that can address the necessary revolution of road transport. Nevertheless, economic and technological barriers are slowing down their widespread adoption. Among others, the development of suitable infrastructures for charging and/or refueling vehicles, as well as the integration with the existing road and energy infrastructures, represents a critical challenge.
The aim of this Special Issue is to address the crucial challenge of integrating the new mobility infrastructure, consisting of e-vehicle charging stations and hydrogen refueling stations, with the existing road and energy networks.
We invite submissions of original research articles and reviews in areas that may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Optimization of charging point locations in urban areas and highways;
- Charging infrastructure planning and operation;
- Hydrogen refueling station infrastructure planning and operation;
- Design and optimal operation of hybrid microgrids with renewables, storage systems, charging stations, hydrogen generation, and conversion systems;
- Smart charging and vehicle-to-grid (V2G);
- Vehicle-to-road infrastructure communication;
- Battery swapping for long-haul transport;
- Static and dynamic wireless power transfer.
Dr. Valerio Apicella
Dr. Carmine Stefano Clemente
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable mobility
- e-mobility
- charging infrastructure
- hydrogen mobility
- hybrid microgrids
- smart charging
- V2G
- V2X
- wireless power transfer
- battery swapping
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