Acknowledgments I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all those who helped me devotedly to complete the book. I am thankful to my current and former graduate students who helped me complete the third edition in several ways including contributing to materials on different topics, reviewing chapters and drawing figures for the book. I am thankful to Adam Stevens for contributions to the chapter on autonomous vehicles, to Dr. Md Sariful Islam for contributions to the chapter on electric machines, to Dr. M. A. Awal for contributions to the chapter on grid interaction of electric vehicles and to Yukun Luo for reviewing the chapter on vehicle controllers and communications.
I am thankful to Dhrubo Rahman and Ritvik Chattopadhyay for creating many of the simulation example problems in the book. I am also thankful to Dr. Rajib Mikail, Dr. Ashfanoor Kabir, Dr. Li Yang, Dr. Siddharth Mehta, Sodiq Agoro and Taohid Latif who helped in different aspects of the book. I also thank Rawshan Ara Mowri for helping with the indexing of the book. The acceptance of the book as a text in several universities nationally and internationally pro- vided the incentive to improve and complete the third edition. I offer my sincere gratitude to the many users of the first and second editions of the book, many of whom provided useful suggestions that helped enhance the book materials.
I am particularly thankful to Professor Roydon Fraser of University of Waterloo, Professor Annette von Jouanne of Baylor University and Dr. Ir. G. Maarten Bonnema of University of Twente, The Netherlands for their very helpful suggestions for the third edition. I am especially thankful to Nora Konopka of Taylor and Francis Group for encouraging me to undertake the project on the book’s third edition. Finally, my sincere apologies and heartfelt gratitude to my mother Mamataz, my wife, Salina, and my children Inan, Imon and Rushan who patiently stood by me with grave understanding and continuous support while I was preoccupied with the project. Iqbal Husain Raleigh, NC xvii