The book presents - based on the most recent research and development results worldwide - the perspectives of new propulsion concepts such as electric cars with batteries and fuel cells, and furthermore plug in hybrids with conventional and alternative fuels. The propulsion concepts are evaluated based on specific power, torque characteristic, acceleration behaviour, specific fuel consumption and pollutant emissions. The alternative fuels are discussed in terms of availability, production, technical complexity of the storage on board, costs, safety and infrastructure. The book presents summarized data about vehicles with electric and hybrid propulsion. The propulsion of future cars will be marked by diversity - from compact electric city cars and range extender vehicles for suburban and rural areas up to hybrid or plug in SUVs, Pick ups and luxury class automobiles.

Keep on running by clever burning! This book reports how humans created materials, machines and power plants with the help of fire and which fuels, with their advantages and disadvantages, they have used so far. "Climate rescuers" of all stripes, whether qualified for such challenge or not, want to eliminate the fire completely and replace it with electricity from photovoltaics and wind power. The book contains facts and evidence as to why solar panels and windmills cannot be sufficient to ensure all the world's energy needs. Neither combustion nor thermal engines are responsible for the environmental hazard till now, but the fuels they have received in the past. Let's feed the fire with nature-compatible fuels and let it unfold properly in very effective machines and systems! The book describes systematically and comprehensibly for everyone, thermodynamic laws and methods for the design of very efficient machines and drives, as well as regenerative, climate-neutral fuels. This lecture is highly recommended when seating in front of a fireplace or sitting beside a campfire.

Keep on running by clever burning! This book reports how humans created materials, machines and power plants with the help of fire and which fuels, with their advantages and disadvantages, they have used so far. "Climate rescuers” of all stripes, whether qualified for such challenge or not, want to eliminate the fire completely and replace it with electricity from photovoltaics and wind power. The book contains facts and evidence as to why solar panels and windmills cannot be sufficient to ensure all the world's energy needs. Neither combustion nor thermal engines are responsible for the environmental hazard till now, but the fuels they have received in the past. Let's feed the fire with nature-compatible fuels and let it unfold properly in very effective machines and systems! The book describes systematically and comprehensibly for everyone, thermodynamic laws and methods for the design of very efficient machines and drives, as well as regenerative, climate-neutral fuels. This lecture is highly recommended when seating in front of a fireplace or sitting beside a campfire.

The book presents - based on the most recent research and development results worldwide - the perspectives of new propulsion concepts such as electric cars with batteries and fuel cells, and furthermore plug in hybrids with conventional and alternative fuels. The propulsion concepts are evaluated based on specific power, torque characteristic, acceleration behaviour, specific fuel consumption and pollutant emissions. The alternative fuels are discussed in terms of availability, production, technical complexity of the storage on board, costs, safety and infrastructure. The book presents summarized data about vehicles with electric and hybrid propulsion. The propulsion of future cars will be marked by diversity - from compact electric city cars and range extender vehicles for suburban and rural areas up to hybrid or plug in SUVs, Pick ups and luxury class automobiles.

This book is focussed on forms of energy for the future, while maintaining climate neutrality, partly by drastically reducing, partly by recycling the resulting carbon dioxide emissions. Electric drive of cars and machines instead of combustion engines do not solve the conflict between energy and carbon dioxide, more efficient ways are described. The book presents hopeful forms of energy conversion without carbon dioxide such as photovoltaics, wind power and hydropower, with their advantages, but also with their disadvantages. More promissing is the energy generation maintaining climate neutrality: The water cycle nature-electrolysis-machine-nature is compared with the carbon dioxide cycle nature- photosynthesis in plant-machine-nature. The results of this analysis are largely surprising from such perspective.

Homo sapiens hat zunehmend Energiehunger! Machtige Angst vor dem Weltuntergang wegen des Kohlendioxids, welches bei der Energieerzeugung entsteht, hat er aber auch. Wer und wo sind eigentlich die wahren Energiefresser? Energie ohne Kohlendioxid kann man haben, aber teils sehr extensiv, teils auf gefahrliche Art. Und wenn man das Kohlendioxid aus der Atmosphare uber Pflanzen und von denen weiter uber Warmekraftmaschinen zuruck zur Atmosphare bringt? Ist mit einem solchen Kohlendioxidkreislauf die Erderwarmung vermeidbar, oder ist ein Wasserkreislauf uber die Maschinen sauberer? Der Autor formuliert Thesen die meist uberraschend sind, aber im Buch auf verstandlicher Weise begrundet werden. Professor Cornel Stan hat Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik studiert und lehrte in Berkeley, Paris, Pisa und an weiteren Universitaten zwischen Transsylvanien und Galicien uber Energieumwandlung und anwendung in technischen Systemen, sowie uber Alternative Antriebe fur Automobile Er leitete uber zwei Jahrzehnte lang das Forschungs- und Transferzentrum an der Westsachsischen Hochschule Zwickau. Cornel Stan ist Autor zahlreicher Fachbucher und Romane, die in mehreren Sprachen erschienen sind

Die Automobile der Zukunft und ihre Antriebe werden von einer grossen Vielfalt gepragt sein, die von geographischen, wirtschaftlichen, klimatischen und oekologischen Bedingungen, aber auch vom Kundenwunsch bestimmt werden. Ein Universalauto, einheitlich, elektrisch, digital und autonom hat nur eine begrenzte Daseinsberechtigung. Das Buch beschreibt, wie moderne Tablet-Trager bewegt werden wollen, aber auch wie ein Automobil zwischen Akzeptanz, Vorschriften, Sicherheit und Konnektivitat entsteht. Funktionen und Strukturen, Gestaltung von Klimatisierung, Beleuchtung und Sound, moderne Karosserien, Materialien und modulare Fahrzeugbauarten werden leicht verstandlich prasentiert. Dem brennenden Thema Alternative Antriebe wird die gebuhrende Aufmerksamkeit gewidmet: Die dargestellten Elektromotoren, Brennstoffzellen mit Wasserstoff, Batterien, Kolbenmotoren und Kompakt-Gasturbinen werden in zum Teil unerwarteten Antriebsszenarien gruppenweise verknupft. Zukunftige, klimaneutrale Treibstoffe fur Automobile der Zukunft werden aufgefuhrt und bewertet.

Modernste Einspritztechnik, von einer Expertengruppe aus der Industrie unter Fuhrung von Cornel Stan zusammengestellt. Die neuen Kfz-Technologien werden nirgends so umfassend beschrieben, wie in diesem Werk. Namhafte Herstellerbetriebe geben Einblicke in Entwicklungen, die kurz vor der Einfuhrung stehen. Das Werk ist von grosstem Interesse fur den Ingenieur, denn was hier beschrieben wird, ist der Technik- Standard von morgen.
Professor Stan gilt als einer der internationalen Experten. Er organisierte mehrere Workshops, ist in der Industrieforschung aktiv und hat hervorragendes Material fur sein Buch zusammengetragen."