This addendum adds to the analysis of ‘An innovation and policy agenda for commercially competitive plug-in hybrid electric vehicles’ (D M Lemoine et al 2008 Environ. Res. Lett. 3 014003) to the case of all-electric vehicles (EVs). We pay particular attention to grid impacts, break-even battery costs, and the three ways in which EVs could dramatically change the results we obtained for plug-in ...

An important property with any new material is the band gap. Standard density functional theory methods grossly underestimate band gaps. This is known as the band gap problem. Here, we show that the hybrid B3PW91 density functional returns band gaps with a mean absolute deviation (MAD) from experiment of 0.22 eV over 64 insulators with gaps spanning a factor of 500 from 0.014 to 7 eV. The MAD i...

Abstract Lithium-ion batteries have become the primary battery technology used for electric and hybrid vehicles powertrains. Battery temperature, however, is a critical factor these devices, as it influences performance life-time safety must be preferably kept in 15-35 °C range. A dynamic electro-thermal model of lithium iron phosphate was developed. The predicts voltage temperature evolution d...

This paper presents a hierarchical control strategy for heat and electric power control of a building integrating hybrid renewable power sources including photovoltaic, fuel cell and battery energy storage with Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEV) in smart distribution systems. Because of the controllability of fuel cell power, this power sources plays the main role for providing heat and electric p...

The desire to reduce our reliance on fossil fuel and reduce the emission of greenhouse gases has led to an increasing interest in the use of Electric Vehicles (EVs), whether all electric or plug in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV). New Zealand is ideally suited for the uptake of EVs since most of the electricity generation is from renewable resources. The main barriers from a customer perspectiv...