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Emergency braking for free piston energy converters [PDF]

, 2005
Free piston energy converters are a potential technology for future hybrid vehicles, as well as stationary power generation applications. A candidate 2-stroke system comprises of two opposing combustion chambers with a common piston rod, and integrated ...
Bingham, Chris, Howe, D, Long, S, Wang, J, West, M   +4 more
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Managing Electric Vehicles [PDF]

IEEE Design & Test, 2018
The highlight of this issue is the Special Issue on Energy and Power Management for Electric Vehicles. Though electric vehicles are a reality, particularly the power management of electric vehicles bears a large potential for improvement. For the foreseeable future, there will be no revolutions in battery energy and power densities.
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Electric Vehicle Communities for Electric Market [PDF]

World Electric Vehicle Journal, 2010
In this work is proposed the design of a system to create and handle an Electric Vehicle (EV) community, based on social networks collaborative approach and a credit mechanism to incentive participation and divide profits. This system is part of a V2G (Vehicle-to-Grid) module that allows EV owners to be aggregated in communities and participate in the ...
João C. Ferreira, João L. Afonso
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A Review on Energy Efficiency in Three Transportation Sectors: Railways, Electrical Vehicles and Marine

Energies, 2020
The present paper is a review on efficiency issues related to three important sectors of the transportation systems: railways, electrical vehicles, and marine.
M. Brenna, V. Bucci, M. Falvo, F. Foiadelli, A. Ruvio, G. Sulligoi, A. Vicenzutti   +6 more
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Finite-Time Observer Based Guidance and Control of Underactuated Surface Vehicles With Unknown Sideslip Angles and Disturbances

IEEE Access, 2018
Suffering from complex sideslip angles, path following control of an under actuated surface vehicle (USV) becomes significantly challenging and remains unresolved.
Ning Wang, Zhuo Sun, Jianchuan Yin, Shun-Feng Su, Sanjay Sharma   +4 more
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Fire Incidents, Trends, and Risk Mitigation Framework of Electrical Vehicle Cars in Australia

Fire, 2023
Electric Vehicles (EVs) offer a promising solution to reduce the environmental impact compared to internal combustion engine vehicles. However, EV adoption in Australia has been hindered by concerns over fire safety.
Md Kamrul Hassan, Nazra Hameed, Md Delwar Hossain, Md Rayhan Hasnat, Grahame Douglas, Sameera Pathirana, Payam Rahnamayiezekavat, Swapan Saha   +7 more
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Vehicle test report: South Coast technology electric conversion of a Volkswagen Rabbit [PDF]

, 1981
The South Coast Technology Volkswagen Rabbit, was tested at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) dynamometer facility and at JPL's Edwards Test Station (ETS).
Bryant, J. A., Price, T. W., Shain, T. W.   +2 more
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Discovery and insights from DSX mission’s high-power VLF wave transmission experiments in the radiation belts

Scientific Reports, 2022
Space weather phenomena can threaten space technologies. A hazard among these is the population of relativistic electrons in the Van Allen radiation belts.
P. Song, J. Tu, I. A. Galkin, J. P. McCollough, G. P. Ginet, W. R. Johnston, Y.-J. Su, M. J. Starks, B. W. Reinisch, U. S. Inan, D. S. Lauben, I. R. Linscott, W. M. Farrell, S. Allgeier, R. Lambour, J. Schoenberg, W. Gillespie, S. Stelmash, K. Roche, A. J. Sinclair, J. C. Sanchez   +20 more
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Evaluating the Barrier Effects of Charge Point Trauma on UK Electric Vehicle Growth

World Electric Vehicle Journal, 2021
For electric vehicles (EVs) to realise the UK government’s goal of mass-market dominance, there are surmountable hurdles to resolve before car users accept this radical shift in motoring technology. This study focuses on recent EV adopters who experience
Keith Chamberlain, Salah Al Majeed
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Damage Identification of a Derrick Steel Structure Based on the HHT Marginal Spectrum Amplitude Curvature Difference

Shock and Vibration, 2017
For the damage identification of derrick steel structures, traditional methods often require high-order vibration information of structures to identify damage accurately. However, the high-order vibration information of structures is difficult to acquire.
Dongying Han, Shimin Wei, Peiming Shi, Ying Zhang, Kai Gao, Nengyuan Tian   +5 more
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