Towards Sustainable Road Transport

Towards Sustainable Road Transport explores all the technical options for sustainably powered vehicles, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses, investigating barriers to broad implementation, and outlining cutting-edge developments. This wide-ranging book covers advances in internal combustion engines, battery electric cars, plug-in hybrid vehicles, fuel-cell powered motors, and hydrogen as a direct power source. Also highlighting technical issues in storage, infrastructure, generation, and design, this volume's expert author team offers readers a deep understanding of the ongoing developments, challenges, adoption timeline, and likely future directions in the pivotal field of road mobility. Explores all current and emerging alternative vehicle power options in detail, with emphasis on electric traction, hybrid, hydrogen, fuel cells, and biofuelsComparative analysis of vehicle design requirements, primary power source efficiency, conversion technologies, and storage optionsDiscusses key drivers of technological change, infrastructure requirements, and trends in electricity generation INDICE: Chapter 1: The evolution of unsustainable road transport Chapter 2: Drivers for change Chapter 3: Unconventional fuels Chapter 4: Development of road vehicles with internal combustion engines Chapter 5: Progressive electrification of road vehicles Chapter 6: Mains electricity supply for charging vehicle batteries Chapter 7: Batteries and supercapacitors for use in road vehicles Chapter 8: Hydrogen, fuel cells and fuel cell vehicles Chapter 9: The shape of things to come

• ISBN: 978-0-12-404616-0
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 380
• Fecha Publicación: 13/07/2014
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés