Much public attention has been focused on the energy industries in recent years, particularly the electric generation and petroleum industries. This attention is connected to concerns of global warming and the exhaustion of finite natural resources, with the related question of how to optimally meet our nation’s energy needs. One particular point that has received significant attention is the i...

The battle for electricity customers in an increasingly competitive and deregulated market environment is one of the challenges facing the electric power utilities of today. Customers expect a reliable and efficient supply of power from their utilities. One of the advantages that a distributed generator (DG) can provide to the electric utility and to customers is the possibility of improving th...

Executive Summary Electric-drive vehicles can become an important resource for the California electric utility system, with consequent air pollution, system reliability, and economic benefits. We refer to electric power resources from vehicles as "Vehicle to Grid" power (V2G). The economic value of some forms of V2G appear high, more than enough to offset the initially higher costs of electric-...

This study analyzes the reasons a promising technology fails and brings forth the ramifications of such a failure. The analysis is done on solar car technology; specifically, the path of the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team, the conversion of its founder to electric vehicle manufacturing, and the absence of solar cars from the market today. The results show that such a failure is caused by the s...

To promote the market penetration of electric vehicles (EV), China launched the Electric Vehicle Subsidy Scheme (EVSS) in Jan 2009, followed by an update in Sep 2013, which we named phase I and phase II EVSS, respectively. In this paper, we presented the rationale of China’s two-phase EVSS and estimated their impacts on EV market penetration, with a focus on the ownership cost analysis of batte...

the paper presents the optimization results for several electrical machines dedicated for powered electric wheel-chairs. The optimization, using the Hook-Jeeves algorithm, was employed based on a design approach which takes into consideration the road conditions. Also, through numerical simulations (based on finite element method), the analytical approach was validated. The optimization approac...