The purpose of an inspection and maintenance (I/M) program is to identify high-emitting vehicles and mitigate their impact on air quality and climate. I/M programs require vehicle owners to regularly subject their vehicles to a certified emissions test.

This paper presents data from a comparative study of EV-policies in eight different North-European countries, which maps out all of the policies of these countries that target passenger vehicles, chargers, and policies that target the e-mobility eco-system or supporting network, in time-period 2012-2014.

Heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) represent only 4% of the on-road fleet in the European Union (EU), but are responsible for 30% of on-road CO2 emissions. The EU’s current strategy for controlling CO2 emissions from HDVs focuses on market forces and developing a new certification and reporting framework.

Globally the transportation systems are almost completely oil dependent and they are a significant source of green house gases and other emissions.

In recent years Europe has successfully extended its competencies in key enabling technologies for electric mobility, particularly in the field of field of information and communication technologies, components and systems.

In this study, the authors have evaluated the performance vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) with real vehicular traces. The vehicular movements are generated with IDM_IM mobility model. This mobility model used to emulate the movement pattern of nodes, i.e., vehicles on streets defined by maps.

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.

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.

The scope of the e-SolCar project aimed to enhance the urban grid structures to address the future challenges in photovoltaic generation and loads from e-mobility, the fleet consisting of about 41 battery electric vehicles (BEV) has been put into operation.

Battery operated electric vehicles offer the opportunity to manage zero-emission car traffic at low operational costs. In this paper, a battery operated electric taxicab fleet is simulated in a small city scenario using the agent-based transport simulation MATSim.