The popularity of electric vehicles is evidenced by the broad range manufacturers presenting new models plug-in hybrid and battery vehicles. However, success revolution or, rather, rebirth vehicles, hanging a thread, as it lacks involvement large number users, many psychological mechanisms hinder it. What are users’ true feelings about this world vehicles? Are people ready for fifth level autom...

Plug-in electric vehicles could offer flexibility for wind power and an attempt was made to quantify the effect with a power system model Wilmar. Wilmar simulates unit commitment and dispatch using mixed integer programming and includes wind power and load stochasticity as well as a module for plug-in electric vehicles. Forecast errors of wind power increase the need for balancing and ancillary...

Due to demand for decreasing CO2 emission and improving fuel-efficiency of vehicles, research and development of electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) is being revitalized worldwide. In advance of widespread use of EVs and PHEVs, Europe, United States and Japan have cooperated and worked on the international standardization of the vehicle charging system. We have ...

Notice Concerning Copyright Material EV-TEC members are given permission to copy without fee all or part of this publication for internal use if appropriate attribution is given to this document as the source material. Acknowledgements This is the final report for the Electric Vehicle Transportation and Electricity Convergence (EV-TEC) research project T-40 titled " The Impact of PHEV/BEV Charg...

Along with the common goal of reducing fuel consumption for vehicles, the hybrid electric vehicle stands out as a mean for more fuel efficient driving. Besides the conventional combustion engine and fuel tank, the hybrid electric vehicle is also equipped with an electric motor and a battery for propulsion. Car manufacturers are presently working to provide the markets with the next step of this...

With the introduction of alternative fuel vehicles into the transportation system, the refueling station location research has been touted in the literature. The flow refueling location problem (FRLP) locates p stations in order to maximize the flow volume that can be accommodated in a road network respecting the range limitations of the vehicles. This paper introduces the hybrid charging stati...

The advantages that silicon carbide (SiC) based power electronic devices offer are being realized by using prototype or experimental devices in many different power applications ranging from medium voltage to high voltage or for high temperature or high switching frequency applications. The main advantages of using SiC-based devices are reduced thermal management requirements and smaller passiv...