Emerging Nanotechnologies in Rechargeable Energy Storage Systems

Preface

The internal combustion engine (ICE), used for vehicular propulsion since the beginning of the automobile era, has come under pressure as a significant contributor to air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions linked to global climate change. These growing environmental concerns, as well as rising petroleum prices, have strained the global economy and spurred research into the development of various types of clean energy transportation systems using electrically propelled vehicles, such as battery electric vehicles (BEV), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV), and hybrid electric vehicles (HEV).

Development, sizing, optimizing, and modeling of the energy storage system are among the main challenges for the development of the BEV, PHEV, ...