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Electric Traction for Automobiles – Comparison of Different Wheel-hub Drives

In this paper, a comparison concerning electric traction drives for passenger cars is given. Electric traction drives presently available on the market are analyzed and future developments are described. Two main classes of such drives are presented: centre drives (like presently known from hybrid cars) and wheel-hub drives (which are still in the research and development phase). The wheel-hub ...

Nber Working Paper Series Fuel Consumption and Gasoline Prices: the Role of Assortative Matching between Households and Automobiles

Analyses of policies to reduce gasoline consumption have focused on two effects, a compositional effect on the fuel economy of the automotive fleet and a utilization effect on how much people drive. However, the literature has missed a third effect: a matching effect, in which the policy changes how high-utilization households are matched to fuel-efficient vehicles in equilibrium. We show that ...

Promoting Electric Automobiles: Supply Chain Analysis under a Government’s Subsidy Incentive Scheme

We analyze a fuel automobile (FA) supply chain and an electric-and-fuel automobile (EA-FA) supply chain in a duopoly setting, under a government’s subsidy incentive scheme that is implemented to promote the electric automobile (EA) for the control of air pollution. Benefiting from such a scheme, each EA consumer can enjoy a subsidy from the government. We show that the incentive scheme is more ...

Cooperative Automation in Automobiles

Digital Signatures for Automobiles?!

Identifying and tracking vehicles is of major importance for today’s logistics. The common non-electronic solutions are both easy to forge and difficult to use over distances. Combining the successful technologies of digital signatures and the Global Positioning System allows the secure identification of any car and checking its location. Both types of information can improve the fleet manageme...