Advanced Battery Management Technologies for Electric Vehicles

Foreword by Professor Ouyang

Two great challenges facing the Chinese automotive industry are climate change and energy security. First, China is the largest country in automotive production and sales in the world. Chinese vehicle sales and production exceeded 28 million in 2017, accounting for one‐quarter of total world sales, and ranked first in the world for nine consecutive years. This has caused severe urban air pollution. Research shows that tailpipe emissions of current internal combustion engine vehicles are the main source of urban air pollution. They account for approximately 24% of pollution in some major cities, including Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai. Secondly, China's crude oil consumption is increasing greatly with the rapid growth of the ownership of internal combustion engine vehicles. China surpassed the United States for the first time to become the world's largest importer of crude oil in 2017. China's crude oil imports reached 8.43 million barrels a day in 2017, up 10% from 2016, compared with the US's 7.91 million barrels a day, leading to accelerating eastward movement of global oil trade.

These challenges require the development of new energy vehicles. The new energy vehicles change the propulsion system from engine to motor and thus essentially change energy sources from fossil fuels to electrochemical energy storage systems, where the stored energy can be derived from renewable energy sources such as wind or solar energy. Consequently, new energy vehicles ...