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Build Your Own Electric Vehicle (3rd edition)

Thoroughly revised and expanded this is your go-to guide for converting an internal combustion engine vehicle to electric or building an EV from the ground up. You'll also find out about the wide variety of EVs available for purchase and how they're being built. This new edition details all the latest breakthroughs, including AC propulsion and regenerative braking systems, intelligent controllers, batteries, and charging technologies.
Filled with updated photos, this cutting-edge resource fully describes each component - motor, battery, controller, charger, and chassis - and provides illustrated, step-by-step instructions on how to assemble all the parts.

"Build Your Own Electric Vehicle, Third Edition" covers:
- Environmental impact and energy savings
- The best EV for you - purchase trade-offs, conversion trade-offs, and conversion costs
- Chassis and design
- Different types of electric motors and controllers
- Lithium EV batteries
- Chargers and electrical systems
- EV builds and conversions
- Licensing and insuring your EV
- Driving and maintenance.

The Zero Carbon Car - Green Technology and the Automotive Industry

Examines the hundreds of ways in which car manufacturers are trying to reduce our carbon footprint, and the adaptation of the automotive industry to changing technology in a world where environmental issues are becoming ever more prevalent.

Topics covered include:
- What is meant by the terms 'global warming' and 'green', and how these can be defined
- An account of the long history of green automotive technology
- Alternative fuels, including diesel and hydrogen
- Developments in environmentally friendly engine technology
- Electric cars
- Environmental issues in material usage and car body manufacture.

Electric Vehicle Technology Explained (2nd Edition)

A complete guide to the principles, design and applications of electric vehicle technology. Including all the latest advances, it presents clear and comprehensive coverage of the major aspects of electric vehicle development and offers an engineering-based evaluation of electric motor scooters, cars, buses and trains.
This new edition includes:
- important new chapters on types of electric vehicles, including pickup and linear motors, overall efficiencies and energy consumption, and power generation, particularly for zero carbon emissions
- expanded chapters updating the latest types of EV, types of batteries, battery technology and other rechargeable devices, fuel cells, hydrogen supply, controllers, EV modeling, ancillary system design, and EV and the environment
- brand new practical examples and case studies illustrating how electric vehicles can be used to substantially reduce carbon emissions and cut down reliance on fossil fuels
- futuristic concept models, electric and high-speed trains and developments in magnetic levitation and linear motors
- an examination of EV efficiencies, energy consumption and sustainable power generation.

Explaining the underpinning science and technology, this book is essential for practicing electrical, automotive, power, control and instrumentation engineers working in EV research and development. It is also a valuable reference for academics and students in automotive, mechanical, power and electrical engineering.

Electric and Hybrid-Electric Vehicles - Overviews and Viewpoints

With production and planning for new electric vehicles gaining momentum worldwide, this book - the first in a series of five volumes on this subject - provides engineers and researchers with perspectives on the most current and innovative developments regarding electric and hybrid-electric vehicle technology, design considerations, and components.

This book features 12 SAE technical papers, published from 2008 through 2010, that provide an overview of research on topics such as:
- The CO2 benefits of electrification
- The effects of aggressive driving behavior
- Heat recovery in hybrid vehicles
- The impact of drive cycles on PHEV component requirements
- Energy management strategies using game theory and other approaches.

Electric and Hybrid-Electric Vehicles - Engines and Powertrains

With production and planning for new electric vehicles gaining momentum worldwide, this book - the third in a series of five volumes on this subject - provides engineers and researchers with perspectives on the most current and innovative developments regarding electric and hybrid-electric vehicle technology, design considerations, and components.

This book features 13 SAE technical papers, published from 2008 through 2010, that provide an overview of research on electric vehicle engines and powertrains. Topics include:
- Hybrid-electric vehicle transmissions and propulsion systems
- The development of a new 1.8-liter engine for hybrid vehicles
- Vehicle system control software validation
- The impact of hybrid-electric powertrains on chassis systems and vehicle dynamics
- High-torque density motors, and interior permanent magnet synchronous motors.

Electric and Hybrid Vehicles - Design Fundamentals (2nd Edition)

Thoroughly updated to encompass the significant technological advances since the publication of the first edition, this book 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. The author emphasizes technical details, mathematical relationships, and design guidelines throughout the text.