Advanced Storage Systems for Electric Mobility
A special issue of Vehicles (ISSN 2624-8921).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 29381
Special Issue Editor
Interests: fluid machinery; energy systems; power generation; automotive and aircraft
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Dear Colleagues,
Electrified vehicles (EVs) are rapidly becoming a part of the modern air, road, and water transportation system, but their diffusion in the market is still negatively affected by technical, environmental, and economic issues, especially in the case of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and fuel cell systems.
In the case of BEVs, the energy storage system is usually a secondary (rechargeable) battery, but hybrid electric storage systems (HESSs), mainly consisting of a battery coupled with supercapacitors, are also considered in the literature. In the case of fuel cell power systems, the storage systems depend on the kind of converter and powertrain, and usually consist of a fuel tank to feed a fuel cell, either directly or through a reformer. However, fuel cells are not able to follow the dynamic power request of a vehicle, so they are usually combined with an electric storage system in a series hybrid electric configuration. Moreover, the need to overcome today’s limits on energy density for both batteries and hydrogen storage is particularly felt in the aircraft field, where weight is a critical issue.
In this context, this Special Issue aims to be an open platform to share knowledge about advanced storage systems for BEVs and FCVs. It particularly seeks review papers and original contributions describing either experimental or numerical investigations, with emphasis on the expected advantages in terms of range, cost, and environmental issues with a life-cycle assessment (LCA) approach (i.e., “from start to finish” of the storage systems) in all field of transportation.
Dr. Teresa Donateo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- batteries
- hydrogen
- supercapacitors
- HESSs
- BEVs
- FCVs
- LCA