Key Technologies for Intelligent Electric Vehicles

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, growing environmental awareness has motivated the automotive industry to seek sustainable solutions that enable the environmental impact of vehicles to be reduced. In this context, dynamic charging technologies for Electric Vehicles (EVs) are emerging as an innovative solution, with smart roads playing a key role in realizing this vision. As the production and adoption of EVs increases, the need for efficient and convenient charging solutions has become imperative. Although static charging is evolving, it still presents various challenges; these include long charging times and the need for extensive charging infrastructure.

Dynamic charging offers an innovative alternative, enabling EVs to recharge while on the move. This revolutionary approach promises to eliminate range anxiety and maximize the convenience of using electric vehicles, making them competitive with conventional vehicles. Smart roads, integrated with dynamic charging systems, are the key link for this technology. These roads are equipped with sensors, communication systems, and wireless transmission technologies that enable vehicles to receive power as they move along the road. Thus, smart roads represent the essential framework for this new mobility, being a hybrid and multichannel technology offering the seamless integration of online and offline. The renewal of roads and their transformation into smart roads will accelerate smart mobility, fostering maximum synergy between connected and autonomous vehicles and roads. The new connectivity standards will see real-time information exchange between vehicles, road facilities, pedestrians and devices, a process guaranteed and monitored through special digital platforms.

This Special Issue invites scholars to contribute research, case studies, and reviews in order to present findings, methods, and models that are useful in defining the role of electric transportation systems in the development of sustainable mobility for both people and goods.

The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• wireless power transfer
• electric vehicle charging;
• battery swap;
• vehicle to grid (V2G);
• transport decarbonization;
• shared mobility;
• vehicle-to-everything (V2X).

Dr. Michela Longo
Dr. Ryosuke Ota
Guest Editors

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• smart road
• smart grids
• electric power systems
• renewable energy sources
• system analysis
• design
• management
• machine learning techniques