Electric Vehicles: New Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainability
A topical collection in Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This collection belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
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Topical Collection Information
Dear Colleagues,
Aiming to mitigate the negative effect of climate change, while maintaining social prosperity as a priority, the broad theme of sustainability is vital targeting a balance between economic growth and sustainable mobility. In this context, as a consequence of climate change concerns, the automotive industry is facing major investments targeting to reduce the dependence from fossil fuels. Therefore, the transportation sector is changing to the electric mobility paradigm, entailing a set of important questions about sustainability, namely about the required electricity for driving an electric vehicle, the environmental impacts due to require energy to produce the EV (including the batteries), and consequences related with recycling materials and the EV end-of-life. Covering all of these aspects under a smart grid scenario, also technologies as renewable energy sources, energy storage systems, and active conditioners, are emerging as new challenges and opportunities within the scope of the electric mobility for sustainability. This collection ambitions to consolidate the present and future perspectives of electric mobility for sustainability, consequently, are invited original contributions including review papers, from different perspectives, including Ph.D. students, academic scientists, researchers, and professional communities. The topics of interest are related with (but not limited to):
- Renewable energy sources and energy storage systems as support of electric mobility
- Operation modes for the electric mobility (e.g., G2V, V2G, V2H, and V4G modes)
- Power quality, reliability and security in smart grids
- Demand response programs including electric mobility
- Technologies for smart grids, smart homes, and smart cities as support of electric mobility
- New topologies of power electronics converters for on-board and off-board chargers
- Economic and environmental issues of electric mobility
- Environmental impact and life-cycle assessment about the electric mobility
- Technologies of battery electric vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles, range-extended electric vehicles
- Analysis of cost and emissions associated with electric mobility
- New technologies of on-board energy storage systems for electric mobility
- Analysis of well-to-tank, well-to-wheel, and tank-to-wheel
- Options and issues for the electric mobility concerning end-of-life
Dr. Vítor Monteiro
Prof. Dr. João L. Afonso
Collection Editors
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Keywords
- demand response
- energy storage systems
- electric mobility
- environmental issues
- end-of-life
- life-cycle assessment
- operation modes
- power quality
- renewable energy sources
- smart grids
- power electronics
- tank-to-wheel
- well-to-tank
- well-to-wheel