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Five COVID-19 Aftershocks Reshaping Mobility’s Future
2020
Author(s): Gersdorf T, Hensley R, Hertzke P, Schaufuss P
COVID-19 has crossed the globe in a matter of months, putting lives in jeopardy, disrupting businesses, and causing a global economic downturn. COVID-19 has turned mobility upside down.
Tactical Urbanism Pilot - Replicability Manual
2021
Author(s): Ángela Lizcano Cristancho
The Manual highlights approaches for ‘building safer urban public spaces for women and girls’, based on the experiences gathered by the Me Muevo Segura-Initiative (“I Move Safely” Initiative) that seeks to improve women’s safety in the City of Bogotá.
A Comprehensive Review on Developments in Electric Vehicle Charging Station Infrastructure and Present Scenario of India
2021
Author(s): Mishra S, Verma S, Chowdhury S, Gaur A, Mohapatra S, Dwivedi G, Verma P
Electric vehicles help to improve traffic and maintain a healthy living environment by emitting zero or ultra-low tailpipe emissions and producing far less noise. As a result, the global car industry is making the transition to zero-emission vehicles.
An Approach to Reliability, Availability and Maintainability Analysis of a Plug-In Electric Vehicle
2021
Author(s): Talukdar BK, Deka BC
This paper presents an approach to carry out a quantitative RAM analysis of a plug-in electric vehicle. A mathematical model is developed in the Markov Framework incorporating the reliability characteristics of all significant electrical components of the vehicle system, namely battery, motor, drive, controllers, charging unit, and energy management unit.
Segmentation of Passenger Electric Cars Market in Poland
2021
Author(s): Kubiczek J, Hadasik B
The aim of the article was to present the performed market segmentation, focused on identifying the similarities in the characteristics of electric car models on the Polish market and proposing their groupings.
The Economic Case for Electric Vehicles in Public Sector Fleets: An Italian Case Study
2020
Author(s): Danielis R, Scorrano M, Giansoldati M, Alessandrini S
The paper investigates whether it makes economic sense to use electric vehicles (EVs) in the public sector fleet.
Techno-Economic Analysis and Environmental Impact of Electric Buses
2021
Author(s): Yusof NK, Abas PE, Mahlia TMI, Hannan MA
This paper aims to analyse the feasibility of the deployment of electric buses (EB) based on the existing bus routes in Brunei, by the use of life cycle cost analysis and the analysis of the parameters that influence the overall life cycle cost.
Beyond the State of the Art of Electric Vehicles: A Fact-Based Paper of the Current and Prospective Electric Vehicle Technologies
2021
Author(s): Van Mierlo J, Berecibar M, El Baghdadi M, De Cauwer C, Messagie M, Coosemans T, Jacobs VA, Hegazy O
This paper provides an overview of the current state of the art in electric vehicle developments and innovation, related to the vehicle components, their charging infrastructure and interaction with the grid, but also related to battery material sciences and power electronics engineering up to environmental assessments, market considerations and synergies with shared and autonomous vehicles.
On Modeling the Cost of Ownership of Plug-In Vehicles
2021
Author(s): Hamza K, Laberteaux KP, Chu K-C
Plug-in vehicles (PEVs), which include battery-only electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), have steadily grown in sales amidst various incentive programs, but much speculation exists on when PEVs would become cost-competitive without incentives.
Why Regional and Long-Haul Trucks are Primed for Electrification Now
2021
Author(s): Phadke A, Khandekar A, Abhyankar N, Wooley D, Rajagopa D
Zero emission freight trucks are needed to both improve public health and reduce global greenhouse gas emissions but at the same time are generally believed to be uneconomical. However, recent dramatic declines in battery prices and improvement in their energy density have created opportunities for battery-electric trucking today that were seldom anticipated just a few years ago.