Curated list of awesome electric vehicles ⚡ and resources, inspired by awesome-autonomous-vehicles.
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- Sustainability and Climate Change
- The Electric Market
- Who's Leading?
The best place to electrify your EV knowledge in-depth:
- [ChalmersX] Electric and Conventional Vehicles - In this course, we will learn how electric and conventional combustion engine powertrains are built and how they work. This is a part of the MicroMasters "Emerging Automotive Technologies", offered by Chalmers Institute of Technology.
- [ChalmersX] Hybrid Vehicles - In this course, we will examine different mechanical layouts of hybrid powertrains and how they influence the performance and complexity of the powertrain. This is also a part of the MicroMasters "Emerging Automotive Technologies", offered by Chalmers Institute of Technology.
- [TuDelft] Electric Cars - Get a basic understanding of electric cars and learn about leading technologies, development of profitable business models and effective policies. Offered by the Delft University of Technology, through edX.
- [Coursera] Electric Vehicles and Storage Technologies - Looks at some of the alternative energy options from the physical sciences domain, including wind energy, photovoltaic and photothermal energy, and nuclear energy. It also covers energy storage and electric vehicles, and energy efficiency and smart grid technologies. Offered by the University of California San Diego.
- [Coursera] Electric Vehicles and Mobility - Learn about 1. Will electric vehicles be the last to be allowed in megalopolises in the 21st century? 2. Does the environmental gain from vehicle electrification justify heavy investment in charging infrastructure? 3. Are electric vehicles only for wealthy people in developed countries? Offered by École des Ponts ParisTech.
- [Udemy] EV Course - General understanding of EVs and basics. Nothing as complex as aforementioned.
- [Coursera] EV Course - A simple and short EV video, part of the course Electric Utilities Fundamentals and Future.
- [Coursera] Hybrid Cars - A simple and short video on Hybrid Cars, part of the course Energy, Environment, and Everyday Life offered by the University of Illinoia.
Top blogs and magazines electrified with the latest news:
Electrek covers the electric vehicle movement within the wider transition into green energy, and the implications of both green energy and fossil fuels have on the climate.
InsideEVs was created not only to publish the breaking news of the day about electric vehicles, but to dissect it, promote it, and, most importantly, examine the how, what, and why of electric vehicles.
TeslaRati is a California-based multi-platform media company with a focus on EV coverage, Tesla, SpaceX, and ventures affiliated with Elon Musk.
ChargedEVs is a very interactive, free and downloadable EV magazine.
CleanTechnica is the world’s #1 source for cleantech news and analysis.
Green Car Reports will help you decipher the rapidly changing world of 'green' cars: hybrids, plug-in hybrids, electric vehicles, and everything in between!
Recharge News for latest renewable energy news.
Simply just awesome and handpicked interesting articles:
Supercaps patent: Lamborghini and MIT patent a new material for supercapacitors! How electrifying is that?
Truck on rails: Ever seen a truck with a pantograph? Since early July, the first German electric road test track near Frankfurt with catenary overhead lines is fully operational with five Scania R 450 hybrid trucks equipped with pantographs.
Tesla's cheap EV strategy! One of the brains behind Tesla found a new way to make electric cars cheaper, right from scrap! Envisions a process so efficient that batteries coming from the mountain of electric cars being retired in coming years could be quickly stripped down, recycled for their core materials, and used to rebuild new power cells, creating a closed loop where hardly any materials are lost.
Five challanges on the road to E-mobility: Hear from Volvo on the top-notch challenges towards electromobility and how to overcome them!
Driverless E-trucks begin deliveries: Driverless electric lorries begin deliveries in Sweden! Developers estimate vehicle will reduce road freight operating costs by about 60 %.
What is a Hybrid car? Hear from the experts themselves, Volvo on your guide to the Hybrid engines!
BMW & Daimler (when legends work together): They combine mobility services on five joint ventures: REACH NOW for multimodal services, CHARGE NOW for charging, FREE NOW for taxi ride-hailing, PARK NOW for parking and SHARE NOW for car-sharing.
Tesla picks up supercap maker: Supercaps have much higher power densities than batteries – they can charge and discharge more rapidly. Electric car maker Tesla recently paid over $200 million for a US supercaps manufacturer Maxwell Technologies.
Charging ahead: Electric-vehicle infrastructure demand Access to efficient charging could become a roadblock to electric-vehicle uptake. This article by McKinsey looks at the numbers and costs behind the problem.
Solar-Powered home charging station Storing energy from the solar panels in order to power up your EV.
Revolutionary and advancing tech in EV industry you may ask?
In short, supercaps are high-capacity capacitors. They have higher capacitance and lower voltage limits than other types of capacitors, and functionally, they lie somewhere in between electrolytic capacitors and rechargeable batteries. A recent study (02 June 2020) shows Lightweight green supercaps are flexible, cost effective and could even charge EVs witin minutes in the near future!
OppCharge/Opportunity Charging sounds revolutionary!
🔋 OppCharge 🔋 Heliox Fast Charging
Go Solar with Tesla Powerwall 2
Let's face it, we can easily find a charging station on Google Maps but with evergrowing services like car sharing, parking, what we require is a serious fully connected infrastructure. Well, BMW and Daimler's Your-Now says they're bringing together five of the world's most innovative urban mobility concepts under just one roof:
Let it be dev tools or open-source software, it's perfect voltage down here:
MATLAB & Simulink is probably the best practical environemnt for beginners. It supports graphical programming for modeling, simulating and analyzing multidomain dynamical systems including several libraries and toolboxes. One such toolbox for simulating electrical and hybrid powertrains is the QSS toolbox.
<GitHub>Sustainable-Mobility is focussed on sizing and analyzing the ICU, Electric-Hybrid powertrains; understanding fuel consumption and energy efficiency.
An aspiring EV scientist? Recharge here:
Electric and Hybrid Vehicles: Design Fundamentals, 2E is a widely praised bestselling textbook, maintains the comprehensive, systems-level perspective of electric and hybrid vehicles while covering the hybrid architectures and components of the vehicle in much greater detail.
- Source: Google Books Cited by: 950 Year: 2011
An Overview on Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure provides an overview on the charging infrastructure equipment; global policies; emerging business models: wireless/induction charging, battery swapping, vehicle to grid energy transfer.
- Source: TataElxsi Cited by: - Year: 2019
| [Category] & Summary | Source | Cited | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Electric and Hybrid Vehicles] The state of the art of electric and hybrid vehicles provides an overview of the electric and hybrid vehicles worldwide and their state of the art, with emphasis on the engineering philosophy and key technologies. | IEEE | 1295 | 2002 |
| [Supercapacitors] Design and synthesis of high performance flexible and green supercapacitors made of manganese‐dioxide‐decorated alkali lignin - A new class of biomass‐derived supercapacitor was successfully fabricated using a facile and low‐cost synthesis. The supercapacitor is lightweight, portable, and flexible. | Wiley | 137 | 2020 |
| [Supercapacitors] Covalent Organic Frameworks as Negative Electrodes for High‐Performance Asymmetric Supercapacitors - Research on boosting the energy capacity of supercaps. | Wiley | 39 | 2020 |
An aspiring EV graduate? Or a PhD looking out for innovation?
Chalmers University of Technology is undoubtedly one of the leading universities in automotive research. The Master's programme in Automotive Engineering offers the students with in-depth knowledge on powertrains, vehicle dynamics, adas and safety.
🎓Research 🎓Industry tie-ups: Volvo 🎓Location: Sweden
MobilityXlab is a collaboration lab founded in 2017 by six global companies to create and develop new innovations within future mobility – with each other and with startups. Partners are CEVT, Ericsson, Veoneer, Volvo Cars, Volvo Group & Zenuity.
Chalmers Ventures is an incubator and accelerator that starts, develops and finances research and knowledge-based start-ups/companies. Got an idea? You might want to take a look, Sustainability is at the core of Chalmers.
High voltage topics: Electric vehicles Vs. Climate change; are EVs really good at emitting less CO2?
Plug-in hybrids are a 'wolf in sheep's clothing': Carbon dioxide emissions from plug-in hybrid cars are as much as two-and-a-half times higher than official tests suggest, according to new research!
How green are electric cars? How electric cars are made is also crucial to their environmental impact. Polestar (EV maker) highlights that the production of battery packs is responsible for “a relatively large carbon footprint”.
What and Who is electrifying the roads?
Tesla Model 3 is an all electric fastback designed for electric-powered performance, with dual motor AWD, quick acceleration, safety, long range and fast charging. It is the best-selling Tesla model by revenue!
Porsche Taycan is ready for the future, thanks to its innovative total concept. It is characterised by the features that have always been decisive for any Porsche: pure emotion and maximum driving pleasure! Taycan comes in 3 variants: 4S, Turbo, Turbo S.
Mercedes-Benz's all-new EQC 400 4MATIC, provides impressive range, fast charging, and the thrilling feeling that only driving a Mercedes-Benz brings!
Volkswagen already has an all-electric car out in the form of ID.3 hatchback. Today, we will be taking an interior look at the yet-to-be-unveiled ID.4 fully electric SUV.
Maserati Grecale will be introduced in 2022 and just as the MC20 sportscar (convertible, electric and V6 based on Ferrari’s F1 technology), it will be offered with eco-friendly and regular IC engine.
Honda goes small with an all electric Honda E: "We question whether larger vehicles are appropriate for urban areas, and believe that smaller is a better option for cities."
Tata Motors has launched a first-of-its-kind plan aimed at promoting use of electric vehicles. It has unveiled a monthly subscription model for electric version of its compact SUV Nexon.
Sono Motors Sion is a spacious electric car with a range of up to 250 kilometers that charges itself through the power of the sun!
Volvo Buses 7900 electric hybrid is silent, smart, energy efficient, eco-friendly, automatically charged (via OppCharge) and sustainable. This beauty is designed to take on the urban challenge.
Mercedes-Benz eCitaro displays compelling design, technology and practicability. It is engineered to output high energy density for longer ranges (441 kWh/190 km) and long service life with its futuristic Solid-state batteries.
Scania won a Green Truck award 2019 with their R 450: It’s an honour for Scania to receive this award especially as it is our third consecutive victory. The award reinforces what our customers around the world have already experienced, that the Scania R 450 is an exceptionally fuel-efficient truck" - Head of Scania Trucks.
Volta Trucks Volta Zero is the first fully electric 16 tonne delivery vehicle. The Zero’s advanced electric drivetrain is at the heart of this purpose-built full electric commercial vehicle, designed for inner city freight distribution.
Harley Davidson's flagship electric motorcycle: The LiveWire; E Scooters and Off-road E bikes!
Who's leading and where? Employment/job opportunities?
| [Category] Companies | Start-Ups |
|---|---|
| [EV maker] Volvo Cars Polestar Tata Motors | Darwyn Motors EVage |
| [EV/ADAS software] Zenuity |
| Origin | Leaders |
|---|---|
| India | Tata Motors™️ EVage™️ Darwyn Motors™️ |
| Sweden | Volvo Cars™️ Zenuity™️ |
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