Manufacturing companies are continuously facing the challenge of operating their manufacturing processes and systems in order to deliver the required production rates of high quality products of in...

Most of the political revelations are speaking of the e-mobility as the cleanest and final solution on the way of vehicles technology improvements. On the other hand, too little attention is paid for the gas propulsion, however, it's technology is proved, the environmental benefits can be as much as at the e-mobility, but requires far less investment. Compared to the e-mobility, the gas fuelling is a viable solution of today.

Electric mobility comprises a variety of transportation systems, notably the combination of public transport and electrically powered vehicles. It serves as an inherent part of future urban integrated mobility concepts.

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.

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.

This paper presents the technology and testing platform for interoperable e-mobility, infrastructure and power grids at TU Dortmund University. In this study the authors developed an alternative method for Residual Current Detection with DC components in electrical vehicle charging.

The success of EVs in the marketplace will highly depend on the end-user acceptance. The authors have examined the user acceptance of EVs through a living lab study, where 80 Danish families used EVs for a period of 8-10 weeks as their only car.

In this paper the results of the analysis of activity data containing driving patterns of approximately 16,000 vehicles (representative of 2.6 million trips and 15.0 million kilometres) recorded by GPS in May 2011 in the Italian province of Modena are presented.

The transport sector is the second largest and one of the fastest growing energy end-use sectors, representing 24% of global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. The International Energy Agency has developed scenarios for the transport sector within the overall concept of mitigation pathways that would be required to limit global warming to 2 °C.

The project CROME - cross-border mobility for electric vehicles - is the first European field demonstration introducing a standardised and interoperable cross-border charging infrastructure network in the French- German Upper Rhine region.