State of the Art Electric Vehicle Technology in China

Dear Colleagues,

In the trend of electrification, intelligence, sharing and networking, and increasingly stringent environmental requirements, electrification is the future development direction of automobiles. In the past decade, China's electric vehicle market has developed rapidly, and now it has become the largest electric vehicle market in the world. Its sales of electric passenger cars account for half of the world's total, and the sales of electric buses and electric trucks account for more than 90% of the world's total.

Research in pure electric vehicles in China began in the 1960s. With the strong support of the state, some universities, automobile research institutes, and production enterprises jointly developed rechargeable batteries and pure electric vehicles and achieved fruitful results. At present, China has achieved independent mass production of pure electric cars and pure electric buses and is at the forefront in the performance technology of key components such as high-power Ni MH battery and lithium-ion battery. There is not a big gap between China and traditional automobile powers in the development of pure electric vehicle technology, and the country even has reached the world-leading level in some fields, such as zinc-air battery and lithium-ion battery research. With the change in China's automobile industry form and consumption mode, automobiles, transportation, information communication, and other industries are mutually enabling each other. In the future, cross-industry and cross-field integration development will become a major development trend of electric vehicles. The electric vehicle industry, however, despite its rapid development, still faces many challenges, including insufficient infrastructure, short driving range, long charging time, and safety.

We set up this Topical Collection to collect papers on China's advanced electric vehicle technology and development trends, while providing some new directions for thinking about electric vehicle development in China and even the world. We invite papers on innovative technical developments, reviews, case studies, as well as analytical and assessment papers from different disciplines that are relevant to the topic of electric vehicles.

Dr. Xuhui Wen
Prof. Dr. Kangli Wang
Prof. Dr. Qingsong Wang
Prof. Dr. Xia Lu
Prof. Dr. Zhonghao Rao
Prof. Dr. Junnian Wang
Prof. Dr. Quanqing Yu
Collection Editors

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