Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies
Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies is a research topic within Automotive Engineering. Science Explorer counts 27k research works in it since 1950. 13.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers explores the state of the art in electric and hybrid vehicles, focusing on energy storage systems, power management strategies, control strategies, and optimization techniques. It covers a wide range of topics including supercapacitors, battery life optimization, fuel cell vehicles, and various aspects of vehicle propulsion systems.
- Electric Vehicles
- Hybrid Vehicles
- Energy Storage Systems
- Power Management Strategy
- Control Strategies
- Model Predictive Control
- Supercapacitors
- Battery Life Optimization
- Fuel Cell Vehicles
- Vehicle Propulsion Systems
- Research works
- 27k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 3.6k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 13.2% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +28% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies research?
By volume, China and India publish the most (2.5k and 1.2k works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 2.5k works
- 2 India 1.2k works
- 3 United States 519 works
- 4 Germany 457 works
- 5 Italy 261 works
- 6 United Kingdom 197 works
- 7 South Korea 184 works
- 8 Indonesia 150 works
- 9 France 148 works
- 10 Japan 142 works
How concentrated that is
The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.
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Which institutions lead Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Beijing Institute of Technology publishes the most Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies research, followed by Tongji University and Tsinghua University.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 129 works
- 2 Tongji UniversityChina 68 works
- 3 Tsinghua UniversityChina 58 works
- 4 Jiangsu UniversityChina 49 works
- 5 Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 49 works
- 6 Chongqing UniversityChina 49 works
- 7 Jilin UniversityChina 48 works
- 8 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 47 works
- 9 China Automotive Technology and Research CenterChina 44 works
- 10 Politecnico di TorinoItaly 39 works
Who are the leading researchers in Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies include Frede Blaabjerg, İbrahim Dinçer and Josep M. Guerrero.
- 1 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 12k citations
- 2 İbrahim Dinçer Canada 5.9k citations
- 3 Josep M. Guerrero Denmark 5.6k citations
- 4 Remus Teodorescu Denmark 4.2k citations
- 5 Bhim Singh India 3.3k citations
- 6 Zhao Yang Dong Australia 3.1k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies research done?
The largest centres of Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Chongqing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Stuttgart.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- StuttgartDE · 69.5 works11×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies?
Among universities, judged by research, Beijing Institute of Technology, Politecnico di Torino and Jiangsu University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina | 68.9 | 23.4% | 14.4× | 128 | +11.3% |
| 2 | Politecnico di TorinoItaly | 63.1 | 18.0% | 11.4× | 39 | +84.7% |
| 3 | Jiangsu UniversityChina | 60.2 | 24.5% | 8.8× | 49 | +10.0% |
| 4 | Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia | 59.4 | 17.9% | 6.6× | 49 | +1256.9% |
| 5 | Chongqing University of TechnologyChina | 54.8 | 26.6% | 11.8× | 18 | -25.8% |
| 6 | Ontario Tech UniversityCanada | 54.8 | 11.0% | 18.1× | 13 | +166.5% |
| 7 | Yanshan UniversityChina | 53.5 | 11.4% | 11.2× | 28 | +102.5% |
| 8 | Southeast UniversityChina | 53.4 | 23.8% | 3.6× | 36 | +166.8% |
| 9 | University of StuttgartGermany | 53.3 | 1.7% | 11.2× | 29 | +528.5% |
| 10 | Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina | 52.0 | 20.0% | 8.1× | 37 | +8.8% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 28% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies.
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Which topics inside it are moving
Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.