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The recent trend of transitioning from cars with internal combustion engines to green cars has accelerated amidst growing concerns of a climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. South Korea is a particularly good test bed for exploring green mobility alternatives and setting priorities for green car policies, owing to its fast-growing green car market and its considerable share in the worldwide purchases of fuel cell electric vehicles. Accordingly, this study explores the Korean conceptualization of green cars and the prioritization of different aspects of future green car policy using qualitative Q methodology and additional interviews. A total of 31 transport policy experts participated in our survey, resulting in three distinct perspectives: a hybrid vehicle supporter with comparative pragmatism, an electric vehicle supporter from multiple aspects, and a radical ecologist searching for new alternatives. Based on these expert insights, we determine the most appropriate green car type and provide important recommendations for future green car policy. © 2023 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
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Transportation sector is the important sector and consumed the most fossil fuel in the world. Since COVID-19 started in 2019, this sector had become the world connector because every country relies on logistics. The transportation sector does not only deal with the human transportation but also relates to logistics. Research in every country has searched for alternative transportation to replace internal combustion engines using fossil fuel, one of the most prominent choices is fuel cells. Fuel cells can use hydrogen as fuel. Hydrogen can be fed to the fuel cells to provide electric power to drive vehicles, no greenhouse gas emission and no direct combustion required. The fuel cells have been developed widely as the 21st century energy-conservation devices for mobile, stationary, and especially vehicles. The fuel cell electric vehicles using hydrogen as fuel were also called hydrogen fuel cell vehicles or hydrogen electric vehicles. The fuel cells were misconceived by several people that they were batteries, but the fuel cells could provide electric power continuously if their fuel was provided continuously. The batteries could provide electric power as their only capacities, when all ions are released, no power could be provided. Because the fuel cell vehicles play important roles for our future transportation, the overall review for these vehicles is significantly interesting. This overall review can provide general and technical information, variety of readers;vehicle users, manufacturers, and scientists, can perceive and understand the fuel cell vehicles within this review. The readers can realize how important the fuel cell technologies are and support research around the world to drive the fuel cell vehicles to be the leading vehicles in our sustainable developing world. © 2022 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC
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With the promotion of electrification of transportation, fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) begin to flourish in recent years. FCEVs operate with zero emission and excellent fuel economy, but high cost and incomplete infrastructure hinder the popularization further. Targeting resources are poured into this area by some governments worldwide. To foster the development, it is essential to study the use of FCEVs. Based on the Service and Management center for EVs (SMC-EV), this work conducts a statistical analysis of the market scales, the operation conditions, such as user login statistics, driving distance and refueling behavior and the impact of the occurrence of the Covid-19 pandemic. The analysis results provide essential support to predict the subsequent development of FCEVs and guide the policymaking and the construction of hydrogen refueling stations. © 2022 SPIE. All rights reserved.
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The accelerated global progress in the research and development of automobile products, and the use of new technologies, such as the Internet, cloud computing and big data, to coordinate development platforms in different regions and fields, can reduce the duration and cost of development and testing. Specifically, in the context of the current coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, which has caused great obstacles to normal logistics and transportation, personnel exchanges and information communication, platforms that can support global operation are significant for product testing and validation, because they eliminate the need for the transportation of personnel and equipment. Therefore, the establishment of a distributed test and validation platform for automotive powertrain systems, which can integrate software and hardware testing, is important in terms of both scientific research and industrialization. The main technical difficulties associated with such test and validation platforms include data transmission and the control of the transmission effect. A distributed test and validation platform for a fuel cell electric vehicle powertrain system is proposed herein. The two-time-scale Markov chain is used to simulate the delay between two places (China and Germany), and the least-squares support vector machine (LSSVM) method is used to optimize the transmission effect. The results show that the two-time-scale Markov chain model can effectively simulate the delay between two nations, and that its probability distribution is close to the measured value. The LSSVM method is effectively optimized for all four indicators (velocity, fuel cell output power, battery output power and electric motor output torque). This method can be effectively used in the remote development test validation of vehicle powertrain system. © 2021 SAE Technical Papers. All rights reserved.