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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. 9.9% 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%
2.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+54%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
44% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies

Which countries lead Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (2.9k and 1.4k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.9k works
  2. 2 India 1.4k works
  3. 3 United States 609 works
  4. 4 Germany 503 works
  5. 5 Italy 291 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 221 works
  7. 7 South Korea 215 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 166 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 164 works
  10. 10 France 162 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.

China: 43.9%India: 21.4%United States: 9.1%Germany: 7.5%6 others listed: 18.2%44%largest
China2,940 · 43.9%India1,431 · 21.4%United States609 · 9.1%Germany503 · 7.5%6 others listed1,219 · 18.2%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Beijing Institute of Technology publishes the most Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies research, followed by Tongji University and Jilin University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 145 works
  2. 2 Tongji UniversityChina 82 works
  3. 3 Jilin UniversityChina 75 works
  4. 4 Tsinghua UniversityChina 65 works
  5. 5 Chongqing UniversityChina 62 works
  6. 6 Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 58 works
  7. 7 Jiangsu UniversityChina 57 works
  8. 8 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 54 works
  9. 9 China Automotive Technology and Research CenterChina 48 works
  10. 10 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 46 works

Who are the leading researchers in Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies include Yury G. Gogotsi, Yi Ping Cui and Frede Blaabjerg.

  1. 1 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  2. 2 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  3. 3 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  4. 4 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  5. 5 Douglas Scott Canada 172k citations
  6. 6 Han Zhang China 161k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies?

The most cited paper in Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies is "The State of the Art of Electric, Hybrid, and Fuel Cell Vehicles" (Ching Chuen Chan, 2007), with 1,975 citations. Next come "Battery, Ultracapacitor, Fuel Cell, and Hybrid Energy Storage Systems for Electric, Hybrid Electric, Fuel Cell, and Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles: State of the Art" (1,810) and "A review of energy sources and energy management system in electric vehicles" (1,466).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The State of the Art of Electric, Hybrid, and Fuel Cell Vehicles Ching Chuen Chan · Proceedings of the IEEE Apr 2007 1,975
2 Battery, Ultracapacitor, Fuel Cell, and Hybrid Energy Storage Systems for Electric, Hybrid Electric, Fuel Cell, and Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles: State of the Art Alireza Abdolhosseini Khaligh, Zhihao Li · IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 14 Apr 2010 1,810
3 A review of energy sources and energy management system in electric vehicles Siang Fui Tie, Chee Wei Tan · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 27 Dec 2012 1,466
4 Power Electronics and Motor Drives in Electric, Hybrid Electric, and Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles Ali Emadi, Young‐Joo Lee, Kaushik Rajashekara · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 29 May 2008 1,453
5 A Review on Electric Vehicles: Technologies and Challenges Julio A. Sanguesa, Vicente Torres‐Sanz, Piedad Garrido et al. · Smart Cities Open access 15 Mar 2021 1,347
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Where is Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Chongqing (China) and Nanjing (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 501 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 223 works
  3. 3 ChongqingChina 157 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 152 works
  5. 5 ChennaiIndia 140 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 134 works
  7. 7 WuhanChina 132 works
  8. 8 TianjinChina 114 works
  9. 9 ChangchunChina 85 works
  10. 10 HangzhouChina 85 works
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Where is the best place to study Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, Beijing Institute of Technology, Jiangsu University and University of Science and Technology of China 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.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 72.623.0%15.9×145 +36.7%
2Jiangsu UniversityChina 63.426.6%9.3×57 +22.5%
3University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 60.733.8%1.4×13 +68.4%
4Southeast UniversityChina 60.224.0%3.8×43 +146.8%
5Tsinghua UniversityChina 59.519.6%3.7×65 +17.0%
6Tongji UniversityChina 57.614.2%6.9×82 +51.4%
7Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 57.417.9%7.7×58 +110.0%
8Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 57.030.0%2.1×14 +167.8%
9Chongqing University of TechnologyChina 56.029.0%14.0×22 +106.1%
10Jilin UniversityChina 55.621.3%8.5×75 -2.9%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies, country by country

Is Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 54% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.039% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies9.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

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.

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