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World Electr. Veh. J.2026, 17(11), 600;https://doi.org/10.3390/wevj17110600 
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15 November 2026

Rapid electric vehicle (EV) adoption in emerging markets often outpaces the development of public charging infrastructure, creating systemic socio-technical friction. This study conceptualizes and operationalizes this dynamic as the “Jordanian...

(This article belongs to the Section Marketing, Promotion and Socio Economics)
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World Electr. Veh. J.2026, 17(11), 599;https://doi.org/10.3390/wevj17110599 
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14 November 2026

Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADASs), such as Lane Keeping Assist Systems (LKASs), play a crucial role in enhancing lateral stability and reducing road departure accidents in autonomous vehicles. However, latency from vision processing, communi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Autonomous Driving Systems and Sensor Technologies for Electric Vehicles)
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Energy-Saving Strategies for City Trams: A Case Study

  • Chiara Checconi,
  • Stefano Elia and
  • Chiara Boccaletti
World Electr. Veh. J.2026, 17(11), 598;https://doi.org/10.3390/wevj17110598 
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14 November 2026

Nowadays, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities. Urban mass transportation represents a big issue, and its design and operation must cope with environmental concerns. Trams are certainly one of the least energy-consuming and...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Supply and Sustainability)
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World Electr. Veh. J.2026, 17(11), 597;https://doi.org/10.3390/wevj17110597 
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14 November 2026

Perpendicular parking is a common low-speed function of road vehicles, including electrified vehicles (xEVs). The lateral room for pose adjustment lies outside the slot, so the initial position and how closely the planned arcs are tracked decide whet...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Motion Planning and Control of Autonomous Vehicles: 2nd Edition)
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Highway Heterogeneous Truck Platooning Multi-Agent Cooperative Control Model

  • Jinao Wang,
  • Zhonglai Liu,
  • Bingqing Zhu,
  • Jiaqi Jing and ,
  • Han Jin,
  • Gaole Dai and
  • Jiajia Chen
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World Electr. Veh. J.2026, 17(11), 596;https://doi.org/10.3390/wevj17110596 
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13 November 2026

Heterogeneous electric truck platoons require longitudinal coordination that balances energy consumption, transport efficiency, and safety despite differences in vehicle characteristics. This paper proposes a Distributed Multi-Agent Cooperative Contr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Motion Planning and Control of Autonomous Vehicles: 2nd Edition)
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The concept of automotive components, centred on manufacturing output, no longer captures the software, data and computing power assets that determine advantage in software-defined electric vehicles. Taking China as its setting, this paper asks what...

(This article belongs to the Section Marketing, Promotion and Socio Economics)
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SMO-Residual-Driven Event-Triggered Sensorless FCS-MPC for PMSM Drives

  • Zhiwang Xing,
  • Xipei Ma,
  • Yansong Wang,
  • Pingqing Fan and ,
  • Huankang Zhang and
  • Yang Gao
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Periodic sensorless finite-control-set model predictive control (FCS-MPC) evaluates all eight voltage vectors every 10μs, even when the applied vector is still adequate. This study develops a controller that reuses the applied vector when one held...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicle Control and Management)
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The transition toward a Circular Economy in the automotive industry demands robust eco-design strategies for complex, energy-using, mechatronic systems. This systematic literature review critically evaluates 30 publications representing 27 distinct f...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicle Control and Management)
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China’s charging infrastructure has not expanded as fast as its electric vehicle (EV) fleet, and the resulting capacity gap is now the main constraint on further adoption. Shared private charging piles (SPCPs), meaning privately installed charg...

(This article belongs to the Section Marketing, Promotion and Socio Economics)
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Integrating electric vehicles (EVs) into power grids requires efficient, compact high-frequency transformers (HFTs) for solid-state-transformers (SST) and charging stages. This paper combines a physics-informed multi-objective genetic algorithm (NSGA...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Motion Planning and Control of Autonomous Vehicles: 2nd Edition)
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Extended producer responsibility (EPR) establishes obligations for end-of-life electric vehicle battery recycling, yet stable cooperation depends on stakeholders’ costs and benefits. This study develops a tripartite evolutionary game of automak...

(This article belongs to the Section Manufacturing)
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State of Health Prediction of Lithium-Ion Batteries Under Varying Operating Temperatures Using Deep Neural Networks

  • Keerthi Sri G.V.,
  • Venkataramana Veeramsetty,
  • Vinod Kumar D.M. and
  • Ramanjaneya Reddy Udumula

Estimation of State of Health (SoH) of lithium-ion batteries plays a very crucial role in the efficient running of the battery and performance assessment of the battery. This paper proposes a Deep Neural Network (DNN) model for estimation of the SoH...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Next-Generation AI-Driven Transportation Electrification: Methods, Systems, and Applications)
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To solve the problems of low energy utilization efficiency, high equivalent hydrogen consumption, and significant power battery capacity degradation in hydrogen fuel cell tractors under row-crop seeding operations, a High-Efficient Low-Degradation En...

(This article belongs to the Section Storage Systems)
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Conventional thermal protection strategies for electromechanical compound transmission systems rely mainly on temperature thresholds and segmented power derating, resulting in reactive intervention and excessive power loss under prolonged overload an...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicle Control and Management)
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This paper presents a critical review of the policy, infrastructure, and adoption frameworks needed to integrate smart electric vehicle (EV) charging and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems into South Africa’s stressed electricity grid. Drawing from...

(This article belongs to the Section Charging Infrastructure and Grid Integration)
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Energy assessment of electrified vehicles requires driving cycles that include altitude change, whereas certification cycles and most synthesis methods describe flat-road speed profiles only. This study synthesizes time–speed–altitude dri...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicle and Transportation Systems)
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Connected vehicle platoons rely on intervehicle information to regulate longitudinal spacing and attenuate downstream disturbance propagation. This dependence also exposes the platoon to semantic deception attacks that falsify communicated gap and re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Motion Planning and Control of Autonomous Vehicles: 2nd Edition)
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Range anxiety stems less from battery size than from distrust of the dashboard range and from the difficulty of choosing among chargers that differ in speed, price and connector. We present PC-EVR, a charging-stop selection framework for long-distanc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Next-Generation AI-Driven Transportation Electrification: Methods, Systems, and Applications)
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Reference measurements can affect battery state-of-health (SOH) estimates across operating conditions. We compare reference protocols using fixed local discharge features, regression settings, training records, and evaluation rules. XJTU Batch-3 prov...

(This article belongs to the Section Storage Systems)
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Electric cars and electric two-wheelers are transforming urban mobility along two parallel tracks, yet the two are usually studied separately, and evidence from a single policy environment in which both diffuse simultaneously remains scarce. Using mo...

(This article belongs to the Collection Feature Papers in “Charging Infrastructure and Grid Integration” Section)
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Effective diagnosis of electric bearing faults, especially weak early-stage faults, remains challenging due to complex rotational-speed conditions and external noise. Although the velocity-guided chirplet transform (VGCT) can effectively characterize...

(This article belongs to the Section Propulsion Systems and Components)
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Optimal Gear Selection and Lifetime-Aware Fuel-Cell Power Allocation for a Hybrid Multi-Fuel-Cell Heavy-Duty Truck

  • Mohammad Ghazali,
  • Burcu Uzun Ayvaz,
  • Batuhan Cinar,
  • Kezban Piliç and ,
  • Haluk Atasoy and
  • Ahu Ece Hartavi
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Hybrid heavy-duty vehicles powered by multiple fuel cells (FCs) offer opportunities to improve energy efficiency and support sustainable powertrain operation through powertrain-level optimization. This study investigates optimal gear shifting to redu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue EVS39—International Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exhibition)
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Battery telemetry from electric vehicles arrives at a low sampling rate and is severely imbalanced, making fault diagnosis a long-memory, long-tailed classification problem. This paper presents EVFaultNet, a recurrent–convolutional architecture...

(This article belongs to the Section Storage Systems)
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A condition-dependent recoverable stability boundary is proposed for risk-supervised direct yaw-moment control of distributed-drive electric vehicles. Recoverable states are identified through long-horizon nonlinear trajectories converging to a stabl...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicle Control and Management)
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The rapid advancement of autonomous electric vehicles toward Level 4 full self-driving capability introduces a new and growing energy burden: onboard artificial intelligence computers and sensors require 450 to 1200 W of continuous system power durin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Autonomous Driving Systems and Sensor Technologies for Electric Vehicles)
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In order to guarantee dependable, affordable, and sustainable power system operation, the growing number of electric vehicles (EVs) has increased the necessity for effective electric vehicle charging station (EVCS) planning. Large-scale EV integratio...

(This article belongs to the Section Automated and Connected Vehicles)
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Modeling Hybrid Electric Vehicles Using Fuzzy Interval Petri Nets

  • Fatma Lajmi,
  • Hassene Seddik,
  • Nadhira Khezami,
  • Hedi Dhouibi and
  • Bilel Neji

The power distribution control of Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) must overcome powertrain efficiency degradation and mechanical wear caused by abrupt mode switches. Traditional strategies often disregard real-world sensor noise and physical actuatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Software and Control-Related Fields for Electric Vehicle)
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Balancing Optimization and Implementation: A Critical Review of Energy Management Systems for Urban Electric Motorcycles

  • Donaciano Flores Gaspar,
  • Guadalupe Lopez Lopez,
  • Victor M. Alvarado,
  • J. F. Gómez-Aguilar and ,
  • Monica Borunda and
  • C. A. Torres-Cantero
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Sustainable urban development has driven the global adoption of light-duty electric vehicles, with electric motorcycles now prevalent in cities. Battery-electric powertrains show great potential for replacing internal-combustion engines; however, con...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicle Control and Management)
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Equitable distribution of public EV charging infrastructure is a priority as cities electrify transport, yet placement optimization often treats equity as secondary. This study develops a multi-objective framework treating demand coverage and locatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electric Vehicles and the Challenges of Sustainable Urban Mobility)
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Sodium-ion batteries are promising for cost-sensitive and low-temperature electric-vehicle applications, yet reliable battery management systems (BMSs) require evaluation beyond a development cell. This study develops a lightweight multi-task gated r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electric and Hydrogen Mobility: Charging, Energy Storage, and Sustainable Transportation)
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In-pit fast charging of battery-electric haul trucks can overload a mine substation whose N-1 firm capacity, rated in MVA, is shared with the process load, while every charging restriction costs haulage. This paper proposes a grid-aware charging coor...

(This article belongs to the Section Charging Infrastructure and Grid Integration)
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This numerical study examines whether the propulsion mass of a wheel-integrated motor can be isolated from the wheel assembly to reduce the adverse effects of increased unsprung mass. A constant 400 kg vehicle corner is used for three matched configu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Software and Control-Related Fields for Electric Vehicle)
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Accurate estimation of state-of-charge (SoC) and state-of-health (SoH) is important for lithium-ion battery operation. This study investigates an actor–critic formulation of joint SoC/SoH estimation using TD3 and SAC with a composite reward and...

(This article belongs to the Section Storage Systems)
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Load fluctuations of high-horsepower tractors impair the smoothness of field operations and challenge the reliability of conventional power shift transmissions. This study presents a TRIZ-based design and experimental validation of a dual-flow couple...

(This article belongs to the Collection Feature Papers in Propulsion Systems and Components in Electric Vehicle)
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Electro-Thermal Modeling and Long-Term Degradation-Exposure Analysis of Active BTMS Under Tropical Heat-Soak Conditions

  • Praphat Phuangchuen,
  • Prakasit Prabpal,
  • Somchat Sonasang,
  • Thunyaput Kittiphotiklang and ,
  • Pantree Khompittaya,
  • Rachata Maneechot and
  • Niwat Angkawisittpan
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The aim of this scientific study is to investigate the coupled effects of active battery thermal management on temperature regulation, auxiliary cooling energy demand, and long-term degradation-related exposure under a prescribed tropical heat-soak s...

(This article belongs to the Section Storage Systems)
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Control-Oriented Optimization of a BLDC Drive Powered by PEM Fuel Cell for Hydrogen Electric Vehicles Using PSO-Tuned ADRC

  • Abdessamad Intidam,
  • Hafsa Abbade,
  • Hassan El Fadil,
  • Anwar Hasni and
  • Abdellah Lassioui

This paper addresses the speed regulation of a Brushless DC (BLDC) motor powered by a fuel cell, where the overall dynamics of the system are complex, nonlinear, and partially unknown due to the inverter-motor–fuel-cell interactions. Traditiona...

(This article belongs to the Section Propulsion Systems and Components)
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The reliability of traction-motor winding insulation directly affects the safe operation of electric vehicles. This study proposes a remaining useful life (RUL) prediction method for traction-motor main insulation using bipolar-pulse response measure...

(This article belongs to the Section Propulsion Systems and Components)
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Electric-vehicle (EV) diffusion in large, heterogeneous, and price-sensitive markets such as India cannot be adequately represented by either aggregate diffusion curves or agent-based models (ABMs) in isolation: the former cannot express heterogeneou...

(This article belongs to the Section Marketing, Promotion and Socio Economics)
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As battery performance, range, and intelligent features become baseline competitive attributes in China’s new energy vehicle (NEV) market, consumers also encounter brand and model names when forming impressions of vehicles. This study examines...

(This article belongs to the Section Marketing, Promotion and Socio Economics)
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Co-locating photovoltaic (PV) generation and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capability with electric vehicle charging stations can offset the network impact of charging. A 24 h planning model on the IEEE 33-bus feeder selects up to three of six candidate buse...

(This article belongs to the Section Charging Infrastructure and Grid Integration)
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This paper presents a binocular stereovision method for reconstructing the three-dimensional spatial coordinates of the occupant’s ear, as a laboratory proof-of-concept for future in-vehicle acoustic applications. The binocular system is calibrated u...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Software and Control-Related Fields for Electric Vehicle)
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With the increasing penetration of renewable energy sources, variations in grid impedance and background voltage harmonics have become major challenges to the operational stability and power quality of grid-connected inverters. Although conventional...

(This article belongs to the Section Charging Infrastructure and Grid Integration)
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Piecewise Linear Fuzzy Adaptive Speed Observer with Torque Error Compensation for Electric Vehicle Traction Drives

  • Saqib Jamshed Rind,
  • Saba Javed,
  • Hashim Raza Khan,
  • Khaled Assaleh and
  • Kamran Arshad

This paper presents a piecewise-linear single-input fuzzy-controller-based model reference adaptive system (SFC-MRAS) for speed estimation in speed-sensorless vector-controlled induction motor drives for electric vehicle (EV) traction applications. C...

(This article belongs to the Section Propulsion Systems and Components)
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Planning charging infrastructure is essential to support the growing use of electric vehicles (EVs) and is particularly critical for long-distance travel, where reliable access along the route cannot be assumed. Because meeting the diverse goals of e...

(This article belongs to the Section Charging Infrastructure and Grid Integration)
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Vehicle-integrated photovoltaics (VIPV) generate electricity directly from vehicle surfaces, but the literature remains fragmented across photovoltaic, automotive and power-electronics disciplines, unlike prior reviews addressing these dimensions sep...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electric and Hydrogen Mobility: Charging, Energy Storage, and Sustainable Transportation)
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Digitalization and greening are increasingly interconnected in the new energy vehicle (NEV) industry, yet firm-level evidence on the relationship between digital transformation and green innovation remains limited. Using an unbalanced panel of 899 Ch...

(This article belongs to the Section Marketing, Promotion and Socio Economics)
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Rapid technological iteration has turned electric vehicle (EV) purchasing into a decision about timing: buy now, or wait for a better model. Prior research explains how favorably consumers evaluate EVs, but not when they intend to buy. It also treats...

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As cities seek to reduce car dependency while maintaining individual accessibility, understanding the economic implications of switching transport modes has become increasingly important for both users and policymakers. This study investigates the to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue EVS38—International Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exhibition (Gothenburg, Sweden))
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Electric vehicles (EVs) require high-performance traction battery systems capable of delivering fast and efficient energy to electric motors for rapid acceleration. To meet the increasing demand for efficient power conversion, this paper proposes an...

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Component-level vibration tests are performed before final assembly, but how their order-domain signatures relate to later drive-unit end-of-line (EOL) noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) remains uncertain. This study links two pre-assembly compone...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Next-Generation AI-Driven Transportation Electrification: Methods, Systems, and Applications)
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