Prospects for Neighborhood Electric Vehicles

A mathematical model for the electric vehicle routing with time windows considering queuing system at charging stations and alternative paths

Due to many damages that human activities have imposed on the environment, authorities, manufacturers, and industry owners have taken into account the development of supply chain more than ever. One of the most influential and essential human activities in the supply chain are transportation which green vehicles such as electric vehicles (EVs) are expected to generate higher economic and enviro...

A Critical Evaluation of Electric Vehicle Benefits

This paper investigates electric vehicle benefits and costs. Similar analysis could be applied to other alternative fuels. This study evaluates various types of electric vehicles. “Conventional performance” electric cars are intended to substitute for petroleum powered vehicles. However, for the foreseeable future they will fail to do this; electric vehicles offer significantly less performance...

Significant Characteristics of Multi Carrier Energy Networks for Integration of Plug-In Electric Vehicles to Electric Distribution Network

One of the big concerns of big cities is facing with the increase of fossil fuel vehicles in the roads. The cars intensify greenhouse gas emission in civic centers. One approach to reduce the emission is replacing the cars by Plug-In Electric Vehicles (PEVs). In spite of reducing the emission, PEVs have some adverse effect on electric distribution networks. Technical challenges such as load and...

Roadway Infrastructure for Neighborhood Electric Vehicles

Active Suspension System in Parallel Hybrid Electric Vehicles

In previous studies, active suspension system in conventional powertrain systems was investigated. This paper presents the application of active suspension system in parallel hybrid electric vehicles as a novel idea. The main motivation for this study is investigation of the potential advantages of this application over the conventional one. For this purpose, a simultaneous simulation is develo...