
Electric Vehicles for Smart Cities
Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities
- 1st Edition - October 6, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Evanthia A. Nanaki
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 8 0 1 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 8 0 2 - 9
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Request a sales quoteElectric Vehicles for Smart Cities: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities uniquely examines different approaches to electric vehicle deployment in the context of smart cities. It provides a holistic picture of electromobility within urban areas, offering an integrated approach to city transportation systems by considering the energy systems, latest vehicle technologies, and transport infrastructure.
Electric Vehicles for Smart Cities addresses the interaction between grid infrastructure, vehicles, costs and benefits, and operational reliability within an integrated framework. The book examines the role electric vehicles play in the social and political aspects of climate change mitigation, as well as a renewable energy-based economy. It explains how electric vehicles and their system requirements work, including recharging techniques and infrastructures, and discusses alternative market deployment approaches.
- Includes case studies from cities around the world, including Amsterdam, London, Oslo, Barcelona, Los Angeles, New York, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Tokyo, and Goto Islands
- Traces the developments, innovations, advantages, and disadvantages in the electric car industry
- Provides learning aids such as discussion questions and text boxes
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Abstract
- 1.1 Sensing the energy scenery in the post COVID-era
- 1.2 The future of mobility
- 1.3 Motivation for the book
- 1.4 Aim and objectives of the book
- 1.5 Structure of the book
- 1.6 Concluding remarks
- References
- Chapter 2. Electric vehicles
- Abstract
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Electric vehicle technologies
- 2.3 Energy sources in electric vehicles
- 2.4 Current charging technology and available charging infrastructure worldwide
- 2.5 Impact of electric vehicles charging on electric power grid
- 2.6 Impact of vehicle to grid technology to power grid
- 2.7 Concluding remarks
- List of abbreviations
- References
- Chapter 3. Electric vehicle charging within smart cities
- Abstract
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 The concept of the smart city
- 3.3 Charging infrastructure
- 3.4 Charging economics
- 3.5 Smart charging
- 3.6 Case studies—worldwide projects
- 3.7 Concluding remarks
- References
- Chapter 4. Market introduction of electric vehicles to urban areas
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Business models
- 4.3 Integrated innovative business models for EVs (e-IIBMs): Implementation of a novel concept
- 4.4 Electric vehicles market overview
- 4.5 Factors influencing the adoption of electric vehicles in urban areas
- 4.6 Case studies of business models used for the deployment of electromobility in urban areas
- 4.7 Concluding remarks
- References
- Chapter 5. Climate change mitigation and electric vehicles
- Abstract
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Transport as part of the energy system
- 5.3 Transport energy consumption
- 5.4 Emissions from the transportation sector
- 5.5 Electric vehicles and energy transition: major challenges to energy transition
- 5.6 Life cycle assessment
- 5.7 Comparative life cycle assessment of a battery electric vehicles and an internal combustion engine vehicle—the case study of European Union
- 5.8 Concluding remarks
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 6. Electric vehicle capitals – case studies
- Abstract
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Global electric vehicle sales: a growing market
- 6.3 Electric vehicle adoption policies: recent developments
- 6.4 Europe
- 6.5 United States of America
- 6.6 China
- 6.7 Japan
- 6.8 Comparative analysis of cities
- 6.9 Concluding remarks
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 6, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 260
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128158012
- eBook ISBN: 9780128158029
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