The On-line Electric Vehicle: Wireless Electric Ground Transportation Systems

Part I: Synergy of Diverse Ideas behind OLEV: Making the Move: From Internal Combustion Engines to Wireless Electric Vehicles .- Wireless Power Transfer for Electric Vehicles.- Design of Large Engineered Systems.- Part II: The Technology of OLEV and SMFIR .- Axiomatic Design in the Design of OLEV.- Overview of Wireless Power Transfer System for a Bus.- Magnetic Field Generation.- Magnetic Energy Pick-Up Using Resonance.- Selection of the Optimum Frequency and Optimization.- Optimum Design of Wireless Power Transfer System.- Inverter- and Road-Embedded Power Cable Module. Installing of Road-Embedded Power Cables.- Pickup and Rectifier.- Regulator.- Shielding of Magnetic Field.- High Power and Energy Management System in OLEVs.- System Architecture and the Allocation of Wireless Charging Power Supply Systems for the On-line Electric Vehicle System.- Part III: Other Applications for OLEV Technology .- Application of SMFIR.- Electrification of other Transportation Systems.- Other Applications of Wireless Power Transfer Systems.- Part IV: Performance, Cost, Regulatory and Safety Considerations .- Electrified Transportation System Performance: Conventional vs. On-line Electric Vehicles.- Energy-Efficiency of an OLEV System.- The Economics of Wireless Charging on the Road.- Regulatory and Safety Issues.