Hybrid Vehicle Technologies for a Sustainable Future Mobility
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2019) | Viewed by 11018
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Interests: internal combustion engines; new combustion modes; emissions; fuels; the injection process
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Interests: dual-fuel; combustion; hybrid vehicles; life cycle analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The vehicle fleet around the world has increased exponentially over the last decades because it allows to cover basic necessities, such as mobility of people and goods transportation. As a result, the global warming problem has been accelerated during recent years. To counteract this situation, the governments are establishing more restrictive emissions regulations, imposing drastic reductions in the CO2 levels allowed to be emitted from the vehicles fleet of different manufacturers. In this sense, CO2 emissions are expected to be limited at 95 g/km by 2021 and at 60 g/km by 2030. To reach these limits, the optimization of conventional vehicles using internal combustion engines (ICEs) is not sufficient, but the combination of electric machines with conventional powertrains can diversify the powertrain architectures and bring the opportunity to save energy in greater extents. Thus, the development of novel powertrain solutions with different electrification degrees is required to obtain environmentally friendlier vehicles that ensure a sustainable future mobility.
This Special Issue encourages both academic and industrial researchers working in this field to share their latest findings and developments on hybrid vehicles. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Experimental studies on hybrid platforms;
- Development of control strategies to optimize the energy management;
- Simulation studies about performance and emissions in driving cycles;
- New hardware development for hybrid vehicles;
- Life cycle analysis studies of hybrid vehicles.
Dr. Antonio Garcia
Dr. Javier Monsalve-Serrano
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Transport sector
- Electrification
- Global warming
- Powertrain systems
- CO2 emissions reduction
- Life cycle analysis
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