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Autonomous cars: Breakthrough for electric vehicles

Sometimes the breakthrough for a new technology does not materialize in one of those fields which receive most attention and where everybody expects the solution. When the British needed a practical method for determining a ship's longitude in the 18 century, they spent many decades gazing at the stars, compiling lunar tables and searching for astronomic methods for determining longitude. But t...

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Electric cars: technical characteristics and environmental impacts

Background: Electric vehicles have been identified as being a key technology in reducing future emissions and energy consumption in the mobility sector. The focus of this article is to review and assess the energy efficiency and the environmental impact of battery electric cars (BEV), which is the only technical alternative on the market available today to vehicles with internal combustion engi...

EMC Issues in Cars with Electric Drives

From the EMC point of view, the integration of electric drive systems into today’s cars represents a substantial challenge. The electric drive system is a new component consisting of a high-voltage power source, a frequency converter, an electric motor and shielded or unshielded high-power cables. Treating this new electric drive system or its components as a conventional automotive component i...

Diagnosis of Mechanical Faults in Electric Motors

The ability to monitor the condition of an electrical machine has been a concern of industry for many years. Knowing when a machine requires maintenance allows users to perform the required maintenance at their convenience, rather than during costly unscheduled shutdowns. This need for improved industrial monitoring techniques has produced a number of studies on the detection of mechanical faul...