Covering applications in conventional, hybrid-electric, and electric vehicles, this book provides a comprehensive reference for automotive electrical systems. This authoritative handbook features contributions from an outstanding international panel of experts from industry and academia, highlighting existing and emerging technologies. Divided into five parts, it offers an overview of automotive power systems, discusses semiconductor devices, sensors, and other components, explains different power electronic converters, examines electric machines and associated drives, and details various...

Vehicular Electric Power Systems: Land, Sea, Air, and Space Vehicles acquaints professionals with trends and challenges in the development of more electric vehicles (MEVs) using detailed examples and comprehensive discussions of advanced MEV power system architectures, characteristics, and dynamics. The authors focus on real-world applications and highlight issues related to system stability as well as challenges faced during and after implementation.

Probes innovations in the development of more electric vehicles for improved maintenance, support, endurance, safety, and cost-efficiency...

This detailed reference provides guidelines for the selection and utilization of electric motors for improved reliability, performance, energy-efficiency, and life-cycle cost-reflecting the state-of-the-science in the field, as well as recent developments in control electronics, the economics of energy-efficient motors and systems, and advanced power electronic drivers.

Recent advances in the area of power electronics have resulted in a great variety of new topologies and control strategies for active filters and UPS systems. This book addresses these new trends in detail. The authors present an in-depth discussion of similarities and differences between active filters, UPS systems, and unified power quality conditioners, with an emphasis on low-cost, reduced-parts configurations not included in any other publication. The book also includes an easy-to-understand description of active filters including basic conventional and modern topologies, including many...

Electrification is an evolving paradigm shift in the transportation industry toward more efficient, higher performance, safer, smarter, and more reliable vehicles. There is in fact a clear trend to move from internal combustion engines (ICEs) to more integrated electrified powertrains.

Providing a detailed overview of this growing area, Advanced Electric Drive Vehicles begins with an introduction to the automotive industry, an explanation of the need for electrification, and a presentation of the fundamentals of conventional vehicles and ICEs. It then proceeds to address the...