With the current rise of electric vehicles, it is possible to use those vehicles for storing surplus energy from renewable energy sources; however, this can be in conflict with providing and ensuring the mobility of the vehicle's user.

By 2020, one million electric cars shall be driving in Germany. Demonstration activities, fleet trials and pilot operations are performed in various cities around the world. However, do sparsely populated, rural areas also have the potential for the use of electric vehicles? In applying the example of Germany, this study recorded the current situation of households and their needs concerning mobility in small towns and rural regions.

This article presents an overview of the effects of some optimization parameters on the performance of a case study pHEV featuring a series architecture and highlights the gap between the real CO2 emissions of the vehicle and the values obtained with the calculation procedure prescribed by the European regulation.

This paper is an effort to position energy efficiency as a significant enabler a) to reduce the GHG emissions footprint of cities and b) to act as a glue to integrate traditional, intelligent and digital technologies with the modern fabric of the smart cities.

This paper explores the key contributions that a Foucauldian-inspired cultural political economy offers, going beyond central problems with the multi-level perspective, specifically regarding a productive concept of power that affords analysis of the qualitatively novel and dynamic process of transition; and the incorporation of the exogenous ‘landscape’ into the analysis.

In this paper, the results of a comprehensive analysis with different scenarios are summarized. The potential application of technologies and investments in new energy technologies were analyzed within existing frameworks and markets as well as new business models in new markets with different frameworks.

Within the scope of this work, a methodology will be introduced that allows a forecast and quantification of the effects of electric mobility on vehicle-specific national value added chains.

This paper describes a study that explored opportunities for innovative e-mobility service business models through a systematic analysis. Furthermore, each e-mobility service depends on information technology (IT) support.

Currently the requirements to be met by the low-voltage grid are increasing. In addition to the growth of the distributed power supply the starting e-mobility is the main cause for this change. The study shows that electric vehicles would be the first parts of a smart grid.

This report is based on deep understanding of Chinese EV Pilot City as the biggest background for EVCarsharing's boom in China in past 2 years.