Technologies for the Electrification of Land and Sea Transportation

Despite the ongoing effects of climate change, large swaths of transport vehicles are still being powered with fossil fuels, generating enormous amounts of greenhouse gas emissions. Changing our transport technology is crucial to ensure a transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy, with green electricity acting as the major transmission medium. With the development of innovative storage and propulsion, combined with real-time energy management, significant changes are feasible in the shipping, automotive, and aeronautics sectors.

This book provides a thorough look at the current trend of electrification of transportation systems on land and at sea.

The first chapters cover electric land transport, its related energy storage, and regulatory issues. Ensuing chapters look at electric ships, their challenges and charging solutions, and the relevant regulations. The technologies, challenges, and possibilities associated with greenhouse gas emission reduction, by shifting from conventional to zero-emission electrical transportation, are examined in detail, with case studies demonstrating real world solutions.

This is a rich resource for senior undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, designers, operators, manufacturers, and engineers, interested in the latest electrification trends in land and sea transportation.

Muhyaddin J.H. Rawa is a professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia, where he is the head of the Smart Grids Research Group. He received a PhD in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Nottingham in 2014. He has over 7 years of experience at Saudi Electricity Company. He has more than 150 publications and 17 United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) patents.

Foad H. Gandoman is a CTO of the Reliability & Safety Technical Centre, Belgium. He earned his PhD with the Battery Team (BIC) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Belgium. He has been project engineer, research assistant, and technical project manager on EU projects such as ASSURED, GHOST, VisionxEV, and ACHILES. He is the editor of the International Journal of Electrical Engineering & Education (IJEEE).

Ziad M. Ali is an associate professor at Aswan University, Egypt, and Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. He received his PhD in 2010 from Kazan State Technical University, Russia. He worked as an assistant professor in the faculty of engineering at Aswan University, Egypt from 2011 to 2016. He was a visitor researcher at Kazan State Energy University (2012-13), and the University of Padova, Italy (2013-14).

Shady H.E. Abdel Aleem is an associate professor at Science Valley Academy, Egypt, and an adjunct associate professor at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport. He is also a consultant for ETA Electric Company, Egypt. He was awarded the State Encouragement Award in engineering sciences in 2017, and the medal of distinction from the first class of the Egyptian State Award in 2020.