79 Best Books on Vehicle Engineering

“Electric Vehicle Technology” Book Review: This book will be useful for electrical, automotive and instrumentation engineers. This book explains the science and technology behind the important developments in electric vehicle technology. It is also valuable to students of mechanical and electrical engineering. It explains the principles and design of electric vehicle technology. It discusses the power generation of zero carbon emission and energy consumption. It explains the types of electric vehicle and types of batteries. It also discusses the rechargeable devices, fuel cells, hydrogen supply and controllers. It provides case studies that explain the reduction of carbon emission and dependence of fossil fuels. It also explains the future scope of electrical vehicles such as high-speed trains, magnetic levitation and linear motors. It also includes MatLab programs for execution. It also introduces the issues that are faced in the design and performance modelling of electric vehicles. It focuses on a full range of electric vehicles: bicycles, mobility aids, delivery vehicles and buses – not just cars. It covers all the basic technology relating to electric road vehicles – batteries, super capacitors, flywheels, fuel cells, electric motors and their controllers and system design. In addition, the book discusses the environmental benefits and disadvantages of electric vehicles and their component devices. It also includes case studies of a range of batteries, hybrids and fuel cell powered vehicles, from bicycles to buses. The book will be useful for professionals, researchers and engineers in the electric vehicle industry as well as advanced students in electrical and mechanical engineering.

“Vehicle Body Construction” Book Review: Learn more about vehicle body construction by reading this book. Enhance your general study skills on this subject by reading this book. This book is useful for students who want to educate themselves on this topic. Students preparing for examinations can use this book to gain more knowledge and understand the syllabus better. The book contains many chapters for students to prepare independently.

“Road Vehicles – Diagnostic Communication” Book Review: This book explains about the basics of communication principles and protocols. Learn about various bus systems and get a detailed description of the diagnostic protocol. The topics in this book include the structure of external test equipment and ISO specification of Modular Vehicle Communication Interface. It also includes Open Diagnostic Data Exchange. Many practical examples are available in this book for readers to learn better.

“Objective Automobile Engineering” Book Review: This book is useful for students doing a diploma in automobile engineering. It can be used for preparing competitive exams in automobile engineering. It contains six parts, starts with auto engineering and auto vehicle technology. It also covers auto-electricals, auto-maintenance, and vehicle-machine. The last section contains miscellaneous topics. It provides multiple-choice questions for each chapter. It also includes a model paper for self-assessment.

“Automobile Electrical and Electronic Systems: Automotive Technology: Vehicle Maintenance and Repair” Book Review: This book is useful for students who need to pass level 3 of vehicle electrical and electronic system courses. It is useful for higher levels of studies and other qualifications too. This book contains flow charts, diagrams and step-by-step instructions for easy understanding. Case studies are available to help you understand the principles in a real-life context. This book contains information on developments in hybrid car technology and is very useful for students enrolled in automotive maintenance works. Experienced mechanics can keep up with technological advances by reading this book.

“Cognitive Radio Networks: Efficient Resource Allocation in Cooperative Sensing, Cellular Communications, High-Speed Vehicles, and Smart Grid” Book Review: It explains the different allocation schemes for different cognitive radio-based networks. It discusses the concept of opportunistic spectrum access networks. It explains the collaboration sensing scheme and framework of cognitive radio-assisted cooperation for downlink transmissions. It describes the high-speed vehicle networks and smart grids. This book is described for experienced practitioners in the field of radio networks. Resource allocation is an important issue in wireless communication networks. This book focuses on effective resource allocation solutions in several important cognitive radio-based networks. It includes opportunistic spectrum access networks, cooperative sensing networks. It also contains cellular networks, high-speed vehicle networks, and smart grids. This book introduces several innovative resource allocation schemes for different cognitive radio-based networks.

“Vehicle Dynamics” Book Review: It explains the heavy earth moving machinery. It also discusses the development of heavy earth moving machinery automobile engineering. It provides problems in thermal engineering.

“Advanced Vehicle Technology” Book Review: This book explains about four wheeled electric vehicles. It explains the concepts of electrically controlled pneumatic brakes, power steering and active suspension. It also describes the semi and fully automatic transmission. It deals with traction control systems,transport refrigeration and vehicle aerodynamics. It contains illustrated diagrams for each topic.

“Thermal Management of Electric Vehicle Battery Systems (Automotive Series)” Book Review: This book Discusses traditional and useful technologies as well as research direction. This book is useful for researchers and practitioners. It is also a valuable textbook for senior-level undergraduate students. It explains the electric vehicle battery thermal management systems. It discusses the design, configuration and parameters of the battery. It deals with the setup, instrumentation and operation of tier thermal management systems.it provides step-by-step instruction to develop a battery in the most efficient manner. It also covers the thermodynamic modelling and analyses of thermal management systems. It includes various model’s illustrations and economic and environmental data. Then it covers thermodynamic analysis and assessment methods, including those based on energy. The book also discusses exergoeconomic, exergoenvironmental and enviroeconomic techniques. The book is designed for researchers and practitioners in the industry. It is also a suitable textbook for senior-level undergraduate and graduate courses.

“Automotive Accident Reconstruction: Practices and Principles (Ground Vehicle Engineering)” Book Review: It book will be useful for reconstructionists and researchers. It explains computer-based tools for analyzing crashes. It deals with techniques of investigation and an interpretation of physical evidence. It explains the theoretical foundation and the presentation of data sources. It also explains the computer programs and spreadsheets that have been involved in the reconstruction of actual crashes. It deals with the methods for vehicle run-out trajectories. It explains how to process and filter the information collected from public sources. It gives a brief on the treatment of crush energy and simulation models. It follows the reverse method to analyze the accidents.

“Autonomous Guided Vehicles: Methods and Models for Optimal Path Planning (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control)” Book Review: The book is designed for extensive path planning for both single and multiple autonomous guided vehicles ( AGVs). The book covers topics like Advance industrial applications of AGVs, increment of manufacturing network complexity, flexible manufacturing systems, controlling machines and Robots. It contains brief description of material flow optimization using AGVs, manufacturing systems using AGVs, risk of AGV based transportation. The book is written in a practice oriented manner with complete solutions of important issues related to AGVs that help students and practitioners understand the concepts much better.

“Mantenimiento y puesta a punto del vehículo sanitario / Hospital Vehicle Maintenance” Book Review: It explains the maintenance of hospital vehicles. It provides diagrams of mechanical components which is taken from the general directorate of traffic. It is a manual to maintain a hospital vehicle. It discusses the operational inspections, adjustments, repairs, cleaning and many more which had to be carried out for maintenance.

“Vehicle Maintenance and Garage Practice” Book Review: This book is designed for undergraduate and graduate students of mechanical and automobile engineering. It can also be used as a repair guide by vehicle owners. It provides step-by-step instruction on repairing procedures. It explains the underlying principles and diagnostic procedures for repairing vehicles. It also provides practical knowledge of vehicle maintenance and repair. It explains the roles and functions of service stations. It includes brief details about transmission, driveshafts, and final drive-servicing. It contains diagrams and images to make the students understand the concepts easily.

“Objective Automobile Engineering” Book Review: This book is useful for students doing a diploma in automobile engineering. It can be used for preparing competitive exams in automobile engineering. It contains six parts, starts with auto engineering and auto vehicle technology. It also covers auto-electricals, auto-maintenance, and vehicle-machine. The last section contains miscellaneous topics. It provides multiple-choice questions for each chapter. It also includes a model paper for self-assessment.

“Gas Mileage Log Book Auto Car Red Vintage: Vehicle Maintenance Tracker” Book Review: It will be useful for car enthusiasts and people who want to track down the reading of their car’s odometer. It helps track down mileage log and the odometer readings.

“A Practical Approach to Motor Vehicle Engineering and Maintenance” Book Review: This is a textbook for students of motor vehicle engineering and apprentices. It explains the vehicle maintenance procedures by step-by step process. It contains information essential to understand the automotive engines. It provides flowcharts and case studies. It includes detailed diagrams that show an overview of system operation. It also includes questions and answers for self assessment.

“An Introductory Guide to Motor Vehicle Maintenance: Light Vehicles” Book Review: This textbook will be useful for auto mechanic students and apprentices. It covers topics on engines, gearboxes, and the vehicle body. It explains the electrical principles and systems. It explains the maintenance of wheels, tyres, brakes and suspension. It also explains the cooling and lubrication of the engine. It deals with air supply, exhaust and combustion control of engines. It serves as a maintenance guide.

“Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Level 1” Book Review: It is a workbook providing theoretical and practical knowledge about vehicle maintenance and repair. It covers QCF national occupational standards at level 1. It is in line with VRQ and NVQ qualifications. It provides diagrams and illustrations for a better understanding of concepts. It also includes weblinks, activities and questions for the practice of concepts.

“Evaluating Vehicle Emissions Inspection and Maintenance Programs” Book Review: It explains the inspections of emission control systems. It deals with the characteristics of motor vehicle emission with and without inspection and maintenance program. It gives a brief on the methodologies of the evaluations and recommends improvements to the programs. It also explains how to increase effectiveness in the future.

“Motor Vehicle Engines” Book Review: This textbook gives a brief review of internal combustion engines and their approximate classification, theory and design of motor vehicle engines and the theoretical fundamentals of engine parameters in various operating conditions. It also discusses important concepts of kinematics and dynamics of the crank gear, design of engine parts and mechanisms and engine balancing, processes taking place in the fuel-feed systems of carburetor and diesel engines etc. The book will be beneficial for undergraduate students, engineers and technicians in mechanical engineering and related fields.

“Sae J1939 ECU Programming & Vehicle Bus Simulation with Arduino” Book Review: This book is described for advanced level B.Tech, M.Tech and M.Sc students of various sciences and engineering disciplines. This book guide to implementing an SAE J1939 protocol stack for embedded systems. It explains in great detail the inner workings of the protocol through designing and transmitting J1939 data frames. It includes a J1939 network scanner, and a simple SAE J1939 to USB Gateway application with associated Windows GUI. This book is filled with numerous C/C++ code examples and valuable documentation of the resulting J1939 vehicle network data traffic.

“Driverless – Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead” Book Review: This book is described for advanced level B.Tech, M.Tech and M.Sc students of various sciences and engineering disciplines. This book contains the risks and benefits of driverless cars. This book contains information about enabling technology. A new kind of artificial intelligence software called deep learning gives cars rapid and accurate visual perception. This book is based on artificial intelligence and deep learning.

“Vehicular Networks: From Theory to Practice (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computer and Information Science Series)” Book Review: This book is described for advanced level B.Tech, M.Tech and M.Sc students of various sciences and engineering disciplines. This book elucidates many issues involved in vehicular networking, including traffic engineering. It also explains about human factors studies, and novel computer science research. This book begins with an overview of traffic engineering issues. It introduces governmental and industrial efforts in the United States and Europe. This book discusses several networking-related issues, including routing and localization.

“A Study of Foiling Vehicles from Sybil Attack Using Pseudonyms” Book Review: This book is described for advanced level B.Tech, M.Tech and M.Sc students of various sciences and engineering disciplines. This book describes Vehicular ad hoc networks being increasingly advocated for traffic control, accident avoidance. It contains communication devices that are being installed in more and more cars and roadside infrastructure components. It will have direct access to a fixed roadside network infrastructure with information flowing both ways. Security and privacy are two major concerns in VANETs.

“Inter Vehicle Communication System Using Cognitive Radio” Book Review: This book is described for advanced level B.Tech, M.Tech and M.Sc students of various sciences and engineering disciplines. This book is a novel approach towards safe driving. This book contains inter vehicle communication systems. This book is based on fixed radio access technology and suffering signal loss. This book contains load balancing problems especially in urban and hilly areas. This book introduces cognitive radio as a solution for a reliable Inter vehicle communication system. This book contains Multi-RAT scanning, white Space sensing, white space optimization, bandwidth shifting.

“Simulation and Test-System of Vehicle Body Can Bus – A Project Report” Book Review: This book is described for advanced level B.Tech, M.Tech and M.Sc students of various sciences and engineering disciplines. This book contains serial communications protocol which efficiently supports distributed real time control with a very high level of security. This book consists of topology of the network, the hierarchical model of the network and selection of bus baud rate. It consists of methods to use CANoe to construct the simulation and test environment for vehicle body CAN bus systems. Experiments that are done demonstrate that the development method of simulation and test system is feasible.

“Optimal Charging Control of Electric Vehicles in Smart Grids (SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering)” Book Review: This book is described for advanced level B.Tech, M.Tech and M.Sc students of various sciences and engineering disciplines. It is also suitable for advanced-level students of computer science interested in networks, electric vehicles, and energy systems. This book introduces the optimal online charging control of electric vehicles (EVs) and battery energy storage systems (BESSs) in smart grids. This book contains both theoretic analysis and data-driven numerical results. It consists of effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed control techniques.

“Advances in Ubiquitous Networking 2: Proceedings of the UNet’16 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering)” Book Review: This book is described for advanced level B.Tech, M.Tech and M.Sc students of various sciences and engineering disciplines. This book elucidates many issues involved in vehicular networking, including traffic engineering. It also explains about human factors studies, and novel computer science research. This book begins with an overview of traffic engineering issues. It introduces governmental and industrial efforts in the United States and Europe. This book discusses several networking-related issues, including routing and localization.

“Engine Management: Advance Tuning” Book Review: This volume describes ways in which the EFI system computes engine operation. It also describes how the calibrator can alter the controlling criterions to optimize engine performance taking engine-tuning methodologies to the next level. This book is appropriate for tuners and calibrators and for people who shish to make horsepower with a fuel-injected, electronically controlled engine.

“How to Tune and Modify Automotive Engine Management Systems – All New Edition: Upgrade Your Engine to Increase Horsepower (Motorbooks Workshop)” Book Review: The text describes completely from the fundamentals of fuel injection to the constructing of complex project cars. It encompasses the recent developments in fuel-injection and engine management techniques implied by foreign as well as domestic manufacturers, inculcating well known aftermarket systems. The text covers the concepts from various angles and very thoroughly. This book presents recent with the current fuel-injection and engine management products and systems.

“Automotive Wiring: A Practical Guide to Wiring Your Hot Rod or Custom Car (Motorbooks Workshop)” Book Review: This volume instructs builders through each step from computing what components they require to choosing wire type and gauge. The text also provides techniques of connection and other considerations. It encompasses various charts presenting typical configurations and suggested installations. The book contains a troubleshooting section that lends a hand in tracking down the inevitable issues that can occur.

“Sustainable Transportation Options for the 21st Century and Beyond: A Comprehensive Comparison of Alternatives to the Internal Combustion Engine” Book Review: this volume inculcates a thorough examination of the environmental and energy security effects of replacing the internal combustion engine vehicle with several types of electric vehicles. Furthermore it analyses the effects of replacing gasoline and diesel fuel with substitute fuels inculcating electricity, hydrogen and biofuels. The text presents an in-depth “well-to-wheels” analysis of local air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and oil consumption for each substitute vehicle. It approximates the market perforation potential of each fuel/vehicle combination to ascertain the possible societal effect of each alternative vehicle pathway. It examines the possible cost of each alternative vehicle in mass production and the amount of installing the required fuel infrastructure to support every choice.

“Engine Management: Optimising Carburettors, Fuel Injection and Ignition Systems (Haynes High-performance Tuning)” Book Review: The volume is exhaustively explained and reveals the “black art” of engine management in common language. It encompasses free PC software consisting of a demonstration of engine management software. It describes the fundamental fuel and ignition system theory, carburetor operation and tuning and engine-mapping theory. Furthermore, ignition timing and fuel injection are also explained.

“Wiring Schematics – Engine Management Systems – Asian Vehicles 1986-98” Book Review: this volume is an all inclusive resource which provides information on current flow schematics for engine management systems on Asian cars. These systems were either launched or revised during the period 1986-1998.

“Engine Management and Fuel Injection Systems Pin Tables and Wiring Diagrams: Alfa Romeo – Mazda v. 1 (Haynes Professional Techbooks)” Book Review: This textbook is essential for fault diagnosis and repair of the same. It also encompasses the concept of ECM pin identification and test data. It includes topics of system specifics of various manufacturers such as Audi, BMW, Honda, Jaguar, Daewoo, Ford, Land rover. Furthermore other manufacturers included are Chrysier, Citroen, Fiat, Hyundai, Isuzu and several others. The book also provides engine management system wiring diagrams.

“Multec, Motronic and Simtec Engine Management Systems Trade Techbook” Book Review: This volume consists of topics such as model identification, VIN and engine codes and technical data and diagrams of wiring. Furthermore it encompasses concepts of components location, self-diagnosis and fault codes. It also contains the Multec, Motronic and Simtec engine management and fuel injection systems fitted to the following petrol-engined Vauxhall or Opel cars and vans for instance Astra, Calibra, Carlton, Kadett, Nova, Omega, Tigra, Vectra and several others. It also inculcates the topic of Multec systems also being=g fitted to the following non- Vauxhall or Opel Vehicles such as Daewoo Nexia and Daewoo Espero.

“Integrated Vehicle Dynamics and Control” Book Review: This book summarizes vehicle system dynamics and control. It explains vehicle system dynamic models. It describes control methodology. It helps us understand integrated vehicle dynamic model and control methodology. This book focuses on directions of vehicle motions. It explains longitudinal, vertical, and laterally. It also deals with Anti-lock Brake System (ABS) and Active Suspension. This book even explains the Electric Power Steering System (EPS) as well. It helps us understand safety, comfort, and economy. It also gives control architectures. It also explains tyre dynamics, chassis systems and control architecture. It also contains a wheel steering system and design of control systems.

“Electric and Hybrid Vehicles” Book Review: This book provides a detailed overview of various important aspects of electric and hybrid vehicles. This book is designed for graduate students, researchers in transmission and distribution networks, and power system operation. This book also serves as a reference for professional software developers and practicing engineers. It contains coverage of IMI Level 2 Award in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Operation and Maintenance, IMI Level 3 Award in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Repair and Replacement, IMI Accreditation, C&G and other EV/Hybrid courses. It starts with an introduction to the market, covering the different types of electric vehicle, costs and emissions, and the charging infrastructure, before moving on to explain how hybrid and electric vehicles work. A chapter on electrical technology introduces learners to subjects such as batteries, control systems and charging which are then covered in more detail within their own chapters. The book also covers the maintenance and repair procedures of these vehicles, including fault finding, servicing, repair and first-responder information.It contains diagrams, photos and flow charts outline the charging infrastructure, how EV technology works, and how to repair and maintain hybrid and electric vehicles. A chapter on electrical technology introduces the readers to subjects such as batteries, control systems and charging. The book also covers the maintenance and repair procedures of these vehicles, including fault finding, servicing, repair and first-responder information. Case studies are used throughout to illustrate different technologies.

“Electric and Hybrid Vehicles: Technologies, Modeling and Control – A Mechatronic Approach (Wiley Desktop Editions)” Book Review: This book is designed for the professional engineer involved in the design and manufacture of products containing electronic components. Includes examples of real applications and challenges in the automotive industry with problems and solutions. It also includes chapters on vehicle propulsion systems, the fundamentals of vehicle dynamics, EV and HEV technologies, chassis systems, steering control systems, and state, parameter and force estimations. The book is highly illustrated, and examples will be given throughout the book based on real applications and challenges in the automotive industry.

“Electric and Hybrid Vehicles: Design Fundamentals, Second Edition” Book Review: This book presents a comprehensive perspective of electric and hybrid vehicles and is a combination of technical details, design equations, numerical examples and case studies. Starting with some historic background, the book describes the system components, the laws of physics governing vehicle motion and the mathematical relationships within and between the components. This book is designed for the professional engineer involved in the design and manufacture of products containing electronic components. It presents the design fundamentals, component sizing, and systems interactions of alternative vehicles. It contains the comprehensive, systems-level perspective of electric and hybrid vehicles while covering the hybrid architectures and components of the vehicle in much greater detail. It includes new chapters on sizing and design guidelines for various hybrid architectures, control strategies for hybrid vehicles, powertrain component cooling systems, and in-vehicle communication methods.Also includes New sections on modeling of energy storage components, tire-road force mechanics, compressed air-storage, DC/DC converters, emission control systems, electromechanical brakes, and vehicle fuel economy.

“Introduction to Hybrid Vehicle System Modeling and Control” Book Review: This book is a comprehensive study of hybrid vehicle system analysis and design. It provides a detailed introduction to hybrids and EVs and covers a broad spectrum of EV controls topics. This book is designed for graduate students, researchers in transmission and distribution networks, and power system operation. This book also serves as a reference for professional software developers and practicing engineers. It contains coverage of IMI Level 2 Award in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Operation and Maintenance, IMI Level 3 Award in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Repair and Replacement, IMI Accreditation, C&G and other EV/Hybrid courses.It starts with an introduction to the market, covering the different types of electric vehicle, costs and emissions, and the charging infrastructure, before moving on to explain how hybrid and electric vehicles work. It contains diagrams, photos and flow charts outline the charging infrastructure, how EV technology works, and how to repair and maintain hybrid and electric vehicles. This book covers all the major aspects of hybrid vehicle modeling, control, simulation, performance analysis and preliminary design. It systemically provides the basic knowledge of hybrid vehicle system configuration, main components and also details their characteristics and mathematical models. This book will be useful for engineers in developing algorithms and gain a thorough understanding of hybrid vehicle systems.

“Advanced Hybrid and Electric Vehicles: System Optimization and Vehicle Integration (Lecture Notes in Mobility)” Book Review: This book is designed for the professional engineer involved in the design and manufacture of products containing electronic components. It presents the design fundamentals, component sizing, and systems interactions of alternative vehicles.It contains the results of the research program “Agreement for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles”, developed in the framework of the Energy Technology Network of the International Energy Agency. The topical focus lies on technology options for the system optimization of hybrid and electric vehicle components and drivetrain configurations which enhance the energy efficiency of the vehicle.

“Hybrid, Electric and Fuel-cell Vehicles” Book Review: This book is designed for the professional engineer involved in the design and manufacture of products containing electronic components. It presents the design fundamentals, component sizing, and systems interactions of alternative vehicles. It contains the comprehensive, systems-level perspective of electric and hybrid vehicles while covering the hybrid architectures and components of the vehicle in much greater detail. It includes new chapters on sizing and design guidelines for various hybrid architectures, control strategies for hybrid vehicles, powertrain component cooling systems, and in-vehicle communication methods.Also includes New sections on modeling of energy storage components, tire-road force mechanics, compressed air-storage, DC/DC converters, emission control systems, electromechanical brakes, and vehicle fuel economy.

“Vehicle Dynamics (Automotive Series)” Book Review: This book is designed for the professional engineer involved in the design and manufacture of products containing electronic components. It presents the design fundamentals, component sizing, and systems interactions of alternative vehicles. It comprehensively covers the fundamentals of vehicle dynamics with application to automotive mechatronics. It presents a number of different design, analysis and implementation considerations related to automobiles, including power requirements, converters, performance, fuel consumption and vehicle dynamic models. It covers the dynamics, modeling and control of not only the entire vehicle system, but also of key elements of the vehicle such as transmissions, and hybrid systems integration.

“Energy Efficient Non-Road Hybrid Electric Vehicles: Advanced Modeling and Control (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)” Book Review: This book is designed for the professional engineer involved in the design and manufacture of products containing electronic components. It presents the design fundamentals, component sizing, and systems interactions of alternative vehicles.It introduces an energy-management control structure, which considers all the physical powertrain constraints and uses novel methodologies to predict the future load requirements to optimize the controller output in terms of the entire work cycle of a non-road vehicle. It also provides practical insights into maximizing the energy efficiency and drivability of such powertrains.

“Electric and Hybrid Vehicles: Power Sources, Models, Sustainability, Infrastructure and the Market” Book Review: This book is designed for graduate students, researchers in transmission and distribution networks, and power system operation. This book also serves as a reference for professional software developers and practicing engineers. It contains coverage of IMI Level 2 Award in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Operation and Maintenance, IMI Level 3 Award in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Repair and Replacement, IMI Accreditation, C&G and other EV/Hybrid courses.It starts with an introduction to the market, covering the different types of electric vehicle, costs and emissions, and the charging infrastructure, before moving on to explain how hybrid and electric vehicles work. A chapter on electrical technology introduces learners to subjects such as batteries, control systems and charging which are then covered in more detail within their own chapters. The book also covers the maintenance and repair procedures of these vehicles, including fault finding, servicing, repair and first-responder information.It contains diagrams, photos and flow charts outline the charging infrastructure, how EV technology works, and how to repair and maintain hybrid and electric vehicles.

“Hybrid Electric Vehicle System Modeling and Control (Automotive Series)” Book Review: This book is designed for the professional engineer involved in the design and manufacture of products containing electronic components. It presents the design fundamentals, component sizing, and systems interactions of alternative vehicles. It contains the comprehensive, systems-level perspective of electric and hybrid vehicles while covering the hybrid architectures and components of the vehicle in much greater detail. It includes new chapters on sizing and design guidelines for various hybrid architectures, control strategies for hybrid vehicles, powertrain component cooling systems, and in-vehicle communication methods.Also includes New sections on modeling of energy storage components, tire-road force mechanics, compressed air-storage, DC/DC converters, emission control systems, electromechanical brakes, and vehicle fuel economy.

“Technologies and Applications for Smart Charging of Electric and Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles 1st ed. 2017 Edition” Book Review: The book discusses the huge combination of electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles into power grids. It provides a comprehensive understanding of storage systems for electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. The book analyses current literature related to the ongoing research in the field. Newer standards and emerging applications have also been highlighted. The future for further research has also been discussed.

“Vehicle Dynamics” Book Review: This book explains vehicle dynamics concepts concentrating on their practical use, related theorems and formal proofs are provided, as are real-life applications. Students, researchers and practicing engineers appreciate the user-friendly presentation of a wealth of topics, most notably steering, handling, ride, and related components. It also has front, rear, and four wheel steering systems, also the advantages and disadvantages of different steering schemes, emphasis on design throughout the text, which provides a practical, hands-on approach.

“Modern Electric, Hybrid Electric, and Fuel Cell Vehicles: Fundamentals, Theory, and Design, Second Edition (Power Electronics and Applications Series)” Book Review: This book provides a detailed coverage of the vehicle technologies that offer the most promising solutions to the issues affecting the automotive industry. This book discusses the perspective of the overall drive train system and not just its individual components. It also includes a case study appendix that explains the Toyota Prius hybrid system. Apart from that, the book has separate chapters on drive train design methodology and control principles. Other important topics such as drivetrain architecture analysis and design methodologies, Internal Combustion Engine (ICE)-based drive trains, Electric propulsion systems, Energy storage systems and Regenerative braking are also included. The book is useful for modern automotive systems engineers, students and researchers.

“Electric Vehicle Business Models: Global Perspectives (Lecture Notes in Mobility)” Book Review: This book is a comprehensive study on new and profitable business models in the field of electric vehicles (EV) for the mass market. This book includes approaches that address the optimization of total cost of ownership. Moreover, it presents alternative models of ownership, financing and leasing. The book presents state-of-the-art insights from international experts, including real-world case studies. The book is designed for practitioners and decision makers and may also be beneficial for research experts and graduate students.

“Build Your Own Electric Vehicle” Book Review: This book is a complete and detailed guide for converting an internal combustion engine vehicle to electric or building an EV from the beginning. The readers will also find out about the wide variety of EVs available for purchase and how they’re being built. The book also details all the latest developments, including AC propulsion and regenerative braking systems, intelligent controllers, batteries and charging technologies. With the help of photos, the book describes each component-motor, battery, controller, charger and chassis, and provides illustrated, step-by-step instructions on how to assemble all the parts. This book is useful for environmentalists, engineers, students and mechanics.

“Advanced Electric Drive Vehicles (Energy, Power Electronics, and Machines)” Book Review: This book provides a detailed overview of Advanced Electric Drive Vehicles. It begins with an introduction to the automotive industry, discusses the need for electrification and presents the fundamentals of conventional vehicles and ICEs. It then proceeds to address the major components of electrified vehicles―i.e., power electronic converters, electric machines, electric motor controllers and energy storage systems. This book is useful for senior-level undergraduate and graduate engineering courses. It will also benefit researchers, engineers, managers and other professionals interested in transportation electrification.

“Ac Motor Control And Electric Vehicle Applications” Book Review: This book provides a guide to the control of AC motors with a focus on its application to electric vehicles (EV). It describes the rotating magnetic flux, based on which dynamic equations are derived. The text not only deals with the induction motor, but covers the permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSM). Additionally, the control issues are discussed by taking into account the limitations of voltage and current. The latest edition includes more experimental data and expands upon the topics of inverter, pulse width modulation methods, loss minimizing control and vehicle dynamics. This book is useful for senior-level undergraduate and graduate engineering courses.

“Gram-Positive Bacteria: Vaccine Vehicles for Mucosal Immunization (Biotechnology Intelligence Unit)” Book Review: This book covers all the research on the development of gram-positive bacteria as vaccine delivery vehicles for mucosal immunization. The practical and theoretical considerations of different non-pathogenic bacteria and vaccine vehicles are discussed in the book. The basic concepts behind the different approaches are compared by giving specific examples. A common framework of concepts for a new generation of these vaccines is discussed.

“Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XIX (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)” Book Review: These transactions publish research in computer-based methods of computational collective intelligence (CCI). The applications in a wide range of fields such as the semantic Web, social networks and multi-agent systems are discussed. The application of multiple computational intelligence technologies, such as fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, neural systems helps in supporting human and other collective intelligence and tries to create new forms of CCI in natural and/or artificial systems. This edition contains 11 carefully selected and revised contributions.

“Fault Detection and Flight Data Measurement: Demonstrated on Unmanned Air Vehicles using Neural Networks (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences)” Book Review: This book explains fault detection and isolation (FDI) and flight data estimation using flush air data sensing (FADS) systems. Literature surveys, comparison tests, simulations and wind tunnel tests are included in the book. Initially, in the book FDI is considered for sensor faults where a neural network approach is implemented. FDI is applied both in the academic area and industry resulting in many publications. Later the book focuses on how to estimate flight data using a matrix of pressure sensors and a neural network model. This book serves as an introduction to FDI and FADS systems, a literature survey and a case study for UAV applications.

“Intelligent Autonomy for Unmanned Marine Vehicles: Robotic Control Architecture Based on Service-Oriented Agents (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control)” Book Review: This book presents an Intelligent Control Architecture (ICA) to enable multiple collaborating marine vehicles to autonomously carry out underwater intervention missions. ICA is generic in nature but aimed at a case study where a marine surface craft and an underwater vehicle are required to work cooperatively. It is shown that they are capable of cooperating autonomously towards the execution of complex activities since they have different but complementary capabilities. The ICA implementation is verified in simulation and validated in trials by means of a team of autonomous marine robots. This book also provides architectural details and evaluation scenarios of the ICA, results of simulations and trials from different maritime operations, and future research directions.

“Autonomous Intelligent Vehicles: Theory, Algorithms, and Implementation (Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition)” Book Review:
This book contains detailed information on research on intelligent vehicles. It covers object detection and recognition and aspects of vehicle motion control. This book explains high-level concepts, practical in detail. The book links theory, algorithms and issues of hardware and software implementation in intelligent vehicle research. Topics and features covered in the book present a thorough introduction to the development and latest progress in intelligent vehicle research and propose a basic framework and provide detection and tracking algorithms for structured and unstructured roads. It discusses an approach for multiple sensor-based multiple-object tracking, in addition to an integrated DGPS/IMU positioning approach.

“Advanced Motion Control and Sensing for Intelligent Vehicles” Book Review:
This book contains the latest information in intelligent vehicle control and intelligent transportation. Vehicle dynamics and ground-vehicle interactions are given for the modeling, simulation and control of vehicles. It covers an extensive review of research achievements in the intelligent vehicle motion control and sensory field and the book provides a careful assessment of future developments.

“Intelligent Unmanned Ground Vehicles: Autonomous Navigation Research at Carnegie Mellon (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)” Book Review: This book describes the technology developed and the results obtained by the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute in the course of the DARPA Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) project. The book will help to equip off-road vehicles with computer-controlled, unmanned driving capabilities. The book describes contributions in the area of mobility for UGVs including tools for assembling complex autonomous mobility systems, on-road and off-road navigation, sensing techniques and route planning algorithms. The book covers a number of integrated systems demonstrated in the field in realistic scenarios. The results reported in this book provide tools for further research development leading to practical, reliable and economical mobile robots.

“Fuzzy Logic Techniques for Autonomous Vehicle Navigation (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing)” Book Review: This book is a collection of reports of this topic from conferences, workshops and journal publications. This book is for the largest possible group of interested practitioners, researchers and students to earn knowledge about research and applications based on fuzzy logic in the field of autonomous vehicle navigation. It contains individual papers, contributions that are representative of a wide range of prob­lems and solutions and which have been validated on real robots and individual contributions in a clear framework, that identifies the main problems of autonomous robotics for which solutions based on fuzzy logic have been proposed.

“Intelligent Vehicle Technologies (Automotive Engineering Series)” Book Review: This book is helpful for the undergraduate students of Automotive Engineering. It includes rapid growth in the field of intelligent technologies such as intelligent control systems and sensors. It covers the concepts of in-car navigation devices and cruise control in modern vehicles. The book also provides information on development in systems like collision avoidance system, vision enhancement and diagnostic systems. In addition, smart cruise systems and on-car driver information systems for racing are also discussed. It contains practical examples and industry applications for better understanding of the concepts.

“Terramechanics and Off-Road Vehicle Engineering” Book Review: This book gives all of the necessary knowledge to successfully design and model off-road vehicle systems. It provides a comprehensive introduction to terramechanics, the mechanics of vehicle/terrain interaction. It covers the principles of off-road vehicle and terrain engineering. It explains the latest developments in the field, including the latest computer-aided methods employed in the development of a new generation of high-mobility off-road vehicles. It contains detailed worked design examples, case studies and accompanying problems and solutions.

“Road and Off-Road Vehicle System Dynamics Handbook” Book Review: This book covers all the major issues involved in road vehicle dynamic behavior. This book also highlights motorcycles, heavy commercial vehicles and off-road vehicles. This handbook is made for both beginners and experienced engineers or scientists. It provides extensive coverage of modeling, simulation and analysis techniques. Surveys all vehicle subsystems from a vehicle dynamics point of view. It discusses intelligent vehicle systems technologies and active safety. It gives a detailed explanation about state of the art chapters on modeling, analysis and optimization in vehicle system dynamics, vehicle concepts and aerodynamics. It covers topics like pneumatic tires and contact wheel-road/off-road, modeling vehicle subsystems. It also explains vehicle dynamics and active safety, man-vehicle interaction, intelligent vehicle systems and road accident reconstruction and passive safety.

“Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems for Off-road Vehicles” Book Review: This book provides an overview of recent applications and future approaches on mechatronics off road vehicles. It covers the topics such as automatic steering systems, navigation systems, vehicle architecture, image processing and vision, and three-dimensional perception and localization. These topics include numerous figures, each designed to improve the reader’s understanding.

“Off-Road Vehicle Engineering Principles” Book Review: This book focuses on the machines used to propel and power implements for agricultural production. It covers the topics like engine performance measures, engine and vehicle testing, thermodynamics and engine cycles, engine design. It explains compression-ignition engines, intake and exhaust systems, cooling systems, electrical and electronic systems. It discusses hydraulic systems, drive trains, traction and transport devices, chassis mechanics and human factors and safety.

“Extreme Off-Road Vehicles” Book Review: This book explains about haul trucks, logging trucks, swamp vehicles, tractors, sandrails, military super machines, tanks and bulldozers. This book covers each vehicle’s purpose and the history of their usage. It also tells how to pursue careers that involve off-road vehicles and where they can go to see the latest developments in extreme off-roading vehicle technology. This book contains colorful photographs, sidebars and fact boxes.

“Off-Road Vehicles” Book Review: This book covers exciting vehicles, delivering information on Design and Technology in a way that is accessible for a wide range of readers. This book includes case studies explaining new models and designs and information on safety.

“Off-road Vehicle Dynamics” Book Review: This book explains the analysis of off-road vehicle dynamics from kinetics and kinematics perspectives. It discusses the performance of vehicle traversing over rough and irregular terrain. This book brings novel figures for the transient dynamics and original wheel terrain dynamics at on the go condition.

“Trucks And Off-road Vehicles” Book Review: This book gives detailed features on more than 40 trucks and off road vehicles, past and present, from AM General to Ford to Willys. It is illustrated with over 300 full color, specially commissioned photographs detailing every aspect of these rugged machines. It Includes comprehensive specification panels giving detailed technical and performance information. It also lists the historical and engineering development of each type.

“Environmental Effects of Off-Road Vehicles” Book Review: This book is designed for scholars and practitioners concerned with the principles and applications of environmental management. This book helps the reader to distinguish and implement man’s control of our environment and the world’s renewable resources. It explains the relationship between man and nature and acts to bring harmony to it.

“Driverless – Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead” Book Review: This book is designed for general information about the latest driverless car which has no steering and brakes. The book provides details about self driving cars, reshaping cities, regrowing industries and how they work. The risk and welfare of new technology, latest advances of softwares and technologies in self-driving cars are also discussed here. The book contains information about consumer needs for work together and developed driver Less cars for our society. The benefits of these cars like safer, cleaner mode of transportation, human drivers can easily take off their eyes are also conferred here.