Dear Colleagues,

Electric vehicles (EVs) are a promising solution for fossil fuel conservation and pollution reduction for a safe environment and sustainable transportation. The transition to electric road transport technologies requires electric traction drive systems to offer improved performances and capabilities, such as fuel efficiency, extended range, and fast-charging options. The design of these energy-efficient powertrains requires optimization of components, systems, and controls. Controls entail battery management, fuel consumption, driver performance demand emissions, and management strategy. The hardware optimization entails powertrain architecture, transmission type, power electronic converters, and energy storage systems.

This Special Issue will be devoted to the investigation of the challenges yet to be addressed in inverters and motors to make future EVs more efficient and affordable, the use of new batteries technologies or manufacturing processes, to the improvements and optimization of the charging process, the use of communications and Artificial Intelligence in electric vehicles for improving their mobility and for an efficient use of charging infrastructure, eco charging (i.e., using green energy) and sustainability issues that are related to EVs.