Guest EditorialSpecial Section on Transportation Electrification and Vehicle-to-Grid Applications

Current transportation systems are heavily based on the century-old technology of internal combustion engines (ICE). However, electrification is a clear trend to improve efficiency, performance, and sustainability of transportation systems. A long-term transportation electrification goal is to integrate the transportation industry with the electric power industry, generate more and more electricity from carbon-free and renewable energy sources, and use the electricity in transportation. Electricity is cleaner, greener, more affordable, and domestically produced in many parts of the world. As the electrification level is increased in transportation, the electric power grid is getting cleaner and greener as well since more renewable energy sources provide power to the grid.