Electric Vehicles: Prospects and Challenges - Softcover

Reseña del editor

Electric Vehicles: Prospects and Challenges looks at recent design methodologies and technological advancements in electric vehicles and the integration of electric vehicles in the smart grid environment, comprehensively covering the fundamentals, theory and design, recent developments and technical issues involved with electric vehicles.

Considering the prospects, challenges and policy status of specific regions and vehicle deployment, the global case study references make this book useful for academics and researchers in all engineering and sustainable transport areas.

• Presents a systematic and integrated reference on the essentials of theory and design of electric vehicle technologies
• Provides a comprehensive look at the research and development involved in the use of electric vehicle technologies
• Includes global case studies from leading EV regions, including Nordic and European countries China and India

Biografía del autor

Professor Tariq Muneer, PhD, DSc, CEng, FCIBSE, Millennium Fellow is Professor of Energy Engineering at Edinburgh Napier University. He currently chairs an active group engaged in research on ‘Sustainable Energy’. He is the author of a dozen monographs some of which are: Windows in buildings, 2000, Heinemann; Heat transfer - a problem solving approach, Taylor and Francis, 2003; Solar radiation and daylight models, 2004, Elsevier; and Solar photovoltaic system applications - a guidebook for off-grid applications, Springer, 2016. He is the author of over 230 technical articles. For the past 25 years he has also chaired the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE, London) Solar Data Task Group and is the principal author of CIBSE Guides A and J. Published by Ecole de Mines (2000), Professor Muneer’s work on slope radiation was chosen for the development of the European solar radiation atlas.