ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors investigate issues that are linked to the energy management of electric vehicles. This area includes the management or distribution of energy for a single vehicle, as well as for networks of vehicles. Energy management issues on an aggregated level can broadly be categorized in three ways: energy consumption with respect to travel on a road network; the usage and distribution of charging facilities; and the interaction of vehicles with the power grid. It is important to give the users the option to choose energy consumption as an optimality criterion, in a similar way as the user now can select between the shortest path the minimum time path, the most economic path the minimum fuel path. While long time scales are acceptable for charging at home or at work, they become prohibitive once the range is insufficient for the journeys made between charging periods.
