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Electric Vehicles for Smart Cities. Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities

  • Book

  • October 2020
  • Elsevier Science and Technology
  • ID: 4894752

Electric 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.

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Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Electric Vehicles
  3. Electric Vehicle Charging Within Smart Cities
  4. Market Introduction of Electric Vehicles to Urban Areas
  5. Climate Change Mitigation and Electric Vehicles
  6. Electric Vehicle Capitals Case Studies

Authors

Evanthia A. Nanaki Affiliate Researcher, Dept. of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University, Denmark. Evanthia A. Nanaki is an Affiliate Researcher at the Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research expertise lies in the field of Automotive, Transportation, and Environmental Engineering. She has extensive research experience in sustainability management, smart cities, EVs, and engine emissions mitigation. She has written numerous papers for peer reviewed journals including the Journal of Transport Policy, Journal of Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Indoor and Built Environment, and Journal of Renewable Energy.