A Short History of Electric Vehicles

Laurentiu Racila; Ilie Dumitru; Theodor Oprica; Lucian Matei

doi:10.4028/p-iZkl5l

Paper Titles

Researches in the Field of Electric and Hybrid Mobility at the Automotive Engineering Research Centre of the National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest - Piteşti Branch
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GASTER Electricway 4WD Concept with Compressed Natural Gas, Continuously Variable Transmission and Electrified Rear Axle
p.79

Constructive and Functional Optimisation of a Fuel Tank in the Supply System of a Spark Ignition Engine
p.95

Enabling Technologies and System Architectures for Autonomous Vehicles
p.105

A Short History of Electric Vehicles
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Selection of Heat-Insulating Materials for the Thermal Rehabilitation of a Building
p.123

Selection of Materials for Noise Control in Buildings Using a Multicriteria Decision Method
p.133

Green Roofs for Office Buildings: Benefits to Mass Transfer and Energy Efficiency
p.143

Modelling of the Improvement of Living Conditions in the Apartment Blocks Built before 1989 and Rehabilitation through Thermal Insulation, Using Ubakus Heat and Mass Transfer through Walls Program
p.155

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A Short History of Electric Vehicles

Abstract:

The environmental problems, as well as the economic and health ones, are convincing enough for the design, production and deployment of clean, efficient and sustainable vehicles for transport. The idea of electrical vehicles for transportation is not recently, as a response for these environmental problems, but from the end of the XIX century. The aim of the paper is to show the evolution of this type of vehicles and the integration of electric vehicles in the actual development context. Electric vehicles (EV) are driven by an electric motor through a controller, being powered from an onboard energy source. This type of vehicle offers the possibility of having a cleaner environment and a more efficient and environmentally friendly transport system. Electric vehicles have practically no gas emissions, therefore they are able to reduce the problem of urban pollution in a very efficient way, so electric vehicles are the only zero-emission vehicles (ZEV).