ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book describes some of the work carried out by the authors and their co-authors in the period 2011-2017. It focuses on the opportunities of the new networked actuation possibilities afforded by Full Electric Vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles in people cities. One of the main reasons for people original interest in this topic was the role that Electric Vehicles (EV) could have in addressing a spectrum of societal challenges. Except in a few outlier countries, EV adoption has been slow, and the transportation agenda is driven by greenhouse gas concerns. Dimensioning issues for sharing systems, privacy-preserving optimizations, scale-free feedback control, are all issues that we have grappled with during the course of people work.
