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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. 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. 1 China 2.5k works
  2. 2 India 1.2k works
  3. 3 United States 519 works
  4. 4 Germany 457 works
  5. 5 Italy 261 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 197 works
  7. 7 South Korea 184 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 150 works
  9. 9 France 148 works
  10. 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.

China: 42.9%India: 21.2%United States: 9.0%Germany: 8.0%6 others listed: 18.9%43%largest
China2,460 · 42.9%India1,218 · 21.2%United States519 · 9.0%Germany457 · 8.0%6 others listed1,082 · 18.9%

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

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.

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. 1 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 12k citations
  2. 2 İbrahim Dinçer Canada 5.9k citations
  3. 3 Josep M. Guerrero Denmark 5.6k citations
  4. 4 Remus Teodorescu Denmark 4.2k citations
  5. 5 Bhim Singh India 3.3k citations
  6. 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

  1. 1 Beijing China 432 works
  2. 2 Shanghai China 189 works
  3. 3 Nanjing China 129 works
  4. 4 Chongqing China 126 works
  5. 5 Chennai India 116 works
  6. 6 Xi'an China 116 works
  7. 7 Wuhan China 112 works
  8. 8 Tianjin China 99 works
  9. 9 Changchun China 72 works
  10. 10 Hangzhou China 71 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. StuttgartDE · 69.5 works11×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies than the world average.

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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, 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.

0%10%20%30%mean 17.83%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Beijing Institute of Technology: 128, 23.4%Politecnico di Torino: 39, 18.0%Jiangsu University: 49, 24.5%Vellore Institute of Technology University: 49, 17.9%Chongqing University of Technology: 18, 26.6%Ontario Tech University: 13, 11.0%Yanshan University: 28, 11.4%Southeast University: 36, 23.8%University of Stuttgart: 29, 1.7%Beijing Jiaotong University: 37, 20.0%Jiangsu UniversityBeijing Institute of…Politecnico di TorinoVellore Institute of…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 68.923.4%14.4×128 +11.3%
2 Politecnico di TorinoItaly 63.118.0%11.4×39 +84.7%
3 Jiangsu UniversityChina 60.224.5%8.8×49 +10.0%
4 Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 59.417.9%6.6×49 +1256.9%
5 Chongqing University of TechnologyChina 54.826.6%11.8×18 -25.8%
6 Ontario Tech UniversityCanada 54.811.0%18.1×13 +166.5%
7 Yanshan UniversityChina 53.511.4%11.2×28 +102.5%
8 Southeast UniversityChina 53.423.8%3.6×36 +166.8%
9 University of StuttgartGermany 53.31.7%11.2×29 +528.5%
10 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 52.020.0%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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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

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.