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

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 and taking into account energy systems and latest vehicle technologies. The book addresses the interaction between grid infrastructure, vehicles, costs, benefits and operational reliability within an integrated framework, along with the role electric vehicles play in the social and political aspects of climate change mitigation, the renewable energy based economy, and how electric vehicles and their system requirements actually work. Features case studies from cities around the world, including Amsterdam, Berlin, Helsinki, London, Stockholm, Los Angeles, New York, Shanghai and Portland, OregonTraces the developments, innovations, advantages and disadvantages relating to the electric car industryIncludes learning aids such as discussion questions and text boxes INDICE: 1. Introduction2. Electric Vehicles: Principles, History, Current technology Developments3. Smart Cities and Transportation Optimization: Concepts, Frameworks, Advantages and Challenges4. Market-Oriented Approaches to Electromobility in Urban Areas5. Life Cycle Analysis of Electromobility, Emissions and Climate Change Mitigation Strategies6. Case Studies of Electric Vehicle Deployment in Cities Around the World

• ISBN: 978-0-12-815801-2
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 304
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2020
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés