Global environmental concerns associated with climate change continue to motivate the transition from fossil fuel vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs). Compared to fossil fuel vehicles, EVs are more environmentally friendly and therefore are of great interest to both public agencies and road users concerned with their impact.

To support this transition, governments and automakers worldwide continue to pursue efforts, through policy and design, to increase the EV market share. Notwithstanding the international promotion efforts, EVs currently face several adoption barriers including high purchasing price, low driving range, and limited availability of charging infrastructure. Public agencies seek to address the political, technological, and behavioral challenges to establish incentives to increase the EV market share. Specifically, emerging new transportation technologies such as connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) increase the potential challenges toward understanding the EV performance, and necessary traffic control strategies and infrastructure planning.

The aim of this Special Issue is to collate original research and review articles describing advances in this field.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Enabling technologies for electric charging systems
• EV demand analysis and projections
• Survey analysis of public perception of EVs
• Infrastructure management/operations policies to increase EV market penetration
• Impacts of EV (environment, mobility, equity, highway revenue, etc.)
• EV synergies with other new/emerging vehicle and transport technologies (CAV and shared mobility)
• Traffic control strategies to support EV performances and benefits
• EV systems implementation case studies