Renewable Energies, Electrified Mobility, and Sustainable Infrastructures and Processes: Recent Research and Development

Dear Colleagues,

Up to the sixtieth, automotive manufacturers did not worry about the cost of fuel. They had never complained about air pollution and thought about the life cycle. Ease of operation with reduced maintenance costs meant everything back then. Times have changed. Nowadays, clean air mandates are driving the market to embrace green mobility strategies. At a first glance, it is quite commonly believed that these consist of the integration of new automotive technologies where the internal combustion engines are substituted by electric traction chains leading to electric vehicles (EVs). Nevertheless, such an approach to achieve the transition to green mobility would be far from being significant in terms of reduction of greenhouse gas emissions if the EVs would be charged from conventional grids incorporating power stations fed by fossil fuels. Hence, it comes clear that in order to be sustainable, mobility has to be imperatively allied to green energies in order to refuel EVs. Moreover, it should be underlined that EVs are commonly charged during the night in the house garages or in-building parking. This makes it necessary for the equipment of these latter with renewable energy sources which are used, among other things, for household purposes. In the industrial sector, the adoption of renewable energies and sustainable mobility means the integration of indoor and outdoor aspects, often involving the reengineering of infrastructures and processes.

The present Special Issue highlights the aspects characterizing renewable energies and sustainable mobility, infrastructures and processes.

Original research, technical surveys, and reviews, dealing with (but not limited to) the topics listed hereunder, are highly encouraged for submission:

• EVs, HEVs, PHEVs, and MHEHs powertrain design and energy management strategies;
• Electric drivetrain component design, sizing, optimization, modeling, identification, and control;
• EVs and PHEVs charging, conductive/inductive charging, V2G strategies, battery performance assessment, fuel cells and hydrogen infrastructure, ultracapacitors, hybrid power supply;
• Autonomous vehicles, intelligent guidance, localization and mapping, robust perception, safety assessment;
• Wind energy assessment, wind generating systems design and control, grid interfacing, GCRs, onshore/offshore systems;
• PV topologies optimization, grid interfacing, MPPT, water pumping, heating and desalination. RE3: marine energies, geothermal energy, biomass, smart grid, hybridization;
• Green architecture, sustainable construction materials and process, integration of renewables, water supply;
• Indoor environmental quality enhancement, ICT applied to green buildings, and smart homes;
• Energy efficiency improvement of industrial plants and processes, decarbonization challenges, sustainable industry 4.0;
• Greenhouse gas emission reduction policies, life cycle prediction and analysis, economic benefits, employment;
• National and youth programs, public education, codes and standards, maintenance, recycling, and waste treatment.

We look forward to receiving your contributions to this Special Issue “Renewable Energies, Electrified Mobility, and Sustainable Infrastructures and Processes: Recent Research and Development” of the Energies journal.

Prof. Alessandro Silvestri
Prof. Dr. Ziqiang Zhu
Dr. Fabrizio Marignetti
Prof. Dr. Ahmed Masmoudi
Guest Editors

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