Powering the Driverless Electric Car of the Future
Abstract
The automotive industry is entering an era of transformative change, a key element of which, is the increasingly rapid uptake of electric vehicles (EVs). The prospect of battery-powered electric vehicles (BEVs) becoming both a major power consumer and part of a new distributed supply source is, therefore, a critically important planning issue for power utilities. This chapter describes the likely ongoing exponential increase in EV adoption as a product of a coincidence of powerful technological, social, commercial, environmental, and governmental forces. Explored is the way in which EVs ...
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