Future Perspectives of Safety and Reliability Assessment for Electric-Powered Vehicles

Dear Colleagues,

Over the last few years using the EVs have been taken into consideration in all part of the worlds. Moreover, at the beginning of 2020, the leading carmakers in all parts of Europe have been involved in the E-Mobility markets. This event promises to create a competitive market and large investments in the field of the electric transport system around the world for these companies. As a result, with the increase in various sales market products, safety and reliability challenges will show their new dimensions. The new challenges have emerged in the automotive industry, including marketing, energy management, energy storage systems (battery and fuel cells), and charging/discharging management.

The concept of the safety and reliability of Electric Vehicles’ (EVs’) components is considered a significant issue. In general, reliability assessment can be directly influenced by three main areas in the EV industry, i: EV manufacturers, ii: EV seller, and iii: EV customers. Additionally, the battery system, power electronic converter, and electric motors are knowing as main components of the E-power tarin of an EV that investigates reliability and safety in the mentioned components play a key role in the future perspectives of safety reliability assessment of  EVs. The essential issues regarding the reliability assessment of EVs which need to be taken into consideration are how do the power components operate in EV, identifying failures in EV’s components, inference of the failure sequences, introducing a model to illustrate the failures, and selecting a method to evaluate the reliability of EVs.

In this Special Issue, we are calling for original contributions that cover the emerging challenges in safety and reliability evaluations for electric-powered vehicle studies. This includes problem descriptions, application of new methodologies in safety and reliability enhancement, uncertainty/sensitivity calculations, case studies, and enhancement technologies.

Prof. Ahmed F. Zobaa
Prof. Shady H.E. Abdel Aleem
Dr. Foad H. Gandoman
Guest Editors

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