World Electric Vehicle Journal

World Electric Vehicle Journal is an open access journal on electric vehicles, published by MDPI for the World Electric Vehicle Association.《World Electric Vehicle Journal》是一份聚焦电动汽车的开放获取期刊，由 MDPI 为世界电动汽车协会出版。

It was founded in 2007 by the association and passed to its present publisher in 2018, and it gathers work on battery, hybrid and fuel cell vehicles.该刊于 2007 年由该协会创办，2018 年转交现出版方，汇集电池、混合动力与燃料电池车辆方面的工作。

In the 2025 edition of the journal citation report it holds an impact factor of 3.3, and it stands in the second quartile of transportation science and technology.在 2025 年版期刊引证报告中，该刊的影响因子为 3.3，在交通运输科学与技术类目列第二区。

Scope

• The journal takes the whole span of electric mobility as its subject, and it carries work from the cell to the fleet.该刊以电动出行的整个范围为题材，刊载从电芯到车队的各项工作。

• Battery electric vehicles are named, and the journal takes work on the design and the running of a vehicle driven by stored charge.纯电动汽车被点名，该刊收载以储存电荷驱动的车辆的设计与运行方面的工作。

• Hybrid vehicles are treated, and the journal admits work on how an engine and a motor are made to work together.混合动力车辆得到处理，该刊收载发动机与电动机如何协同的工作。

• Fuel cell vehicles are part of the remit, and the journal carries work on how a stack is built and how it is fed.燃料电池车辆属于收稿范围，该刊刊载电堆如何构建、如何供料的工作。

• Energy storage is a central subject, and the journal admits work on the cell, on the pack and on the management between them.储能是核心选题，该刊收载电芯、电池组以及二者之间管理的工作。

• Power electronics are treated, and the journal takes work on how a current is converted to drive a machine.电力电子得到处理，该刊收载电流如何被变换以驱动电机的工作。

• Electric machines and drives are named, and the journal carries work on the motor and on how it is controlled.电机与驱动被点名，该刊刊载电动机及其控制方式的工作。

• Charging infrastructure is part of the remit, and the journal admits work on how a vehicle is plugged in and how a station is run.充电基础设施属于收稿范围，该刊收载车辆如何接入、站点如何运营的工作。

• Vehicle to grid interaction is named, and the journal takes work on how a parked vehicle returns power to a network.车网互动被点名，该刊收载停驻车辆如何向电网回馈电能的工作。

• Energy management is treated, and the journal carries work on how the demand of a vehicle is met with the least loss.能量管理得到处理，该刊刊载车辆的需求如何以最少损耗被满足的工作。

• Intelligent and connected vehicles are named, and the journal admits work on how a vehicle senses its setting and shares what it finds.智能网联汽车被点名，该刊收载车辆如何感知环境并共享所得的工作。

• Sustainable transport is part of the remit, and the journal takes work on what electrification does for a city or a region.可持续交通属于收稿范围，该刊收载电气化对一座城市或一个地区意味着什么的工作。

• Whole life considerations are weighed, and the journal carries work on what a vehicle costs and emits beyond the tailpipe.全生命周期考量受到权衡，该刊刊载车辆在尾气之外的成本与排放方面的工作。

• Thermal management is treated, and the journal admits work on how heat is drawn away from a cell or a pack.热管理得到处理，该刊收载热量如何自电芯或电池组被导出的工作。

• Safety is named, and the journal takes work on how a battery or a system is kept from failing dangerously.安全性被点名，该刊收载电池或系统如何被防止危险失效的工作。

• Standardisation and policy are weighed, and the journal carries work on how a standard shapes what can be built.标准化与政策受到权衡，该刊刊载标准如何塑造可被建造之物的工作。

• The journal is meant to serve the field that gathers at the electric vehicle symposium, and it takes work of interest to that community.该刊意在服务汇聚于电动汽车研讨会的领域，收载为该共同体所关注的工作。

History

• The journal was founded in 2007 by the World Electric Vehicle Association, and it began as the record of a field that holds a symposium of its own.该刊于 2007 年由世界电动汽车协会创办，起初是一份记录着自身设有研讨会的领域之刊物。

• It is owned by the association together with its member bodies in Europe, North America and Asia.该刊由该协会连同其在欧洲、北美与亚洲的成员机构共同拥有。

• The field gathers at the international electric vehicle symposium, and the journal was set up to complement that meeting rather than replace it.该领域汇聚于国际电动汽车研讨会，该刊的设立是为补充那场会议，而非取代它。

• That symposium series reaches back to 1969, and it has grown into the largest gathering of the electric vehicle community.该研讨会系列上溯至 1969 年，已成长为电动汽车共同体最大的聚会。

• The journal passed to its present publisher in 2018, and it has been run by MDPI since then.该刊于 2018 年转交现出版方，此后一直由 MDPI 运营。

• Only one number is in use for the title, and the journal is published online rather than in print.该刊只使用一个刊号，以在线而非印刷形式出版。

• A volume is published for each year, and the series had reached volume 17 by 2026.该刊每年出版一卷，到 2026 年已出至第 17 卷。

• Twelve issues are gathered into a year in the present arrangement, and a paper appears soon after it is accepted.按现行安排该刊每年汇集十二期，论文在被录用后不久即行出现。

• Access was open from the start, and every article is free to read from the moment it appears.该刊自始即开放获取，每篇文章自出现那一刻起即可免费阅读。

• A publication charge applies to an accepted paper, and the journal publishes the amount on its own pages.被录用的论文须缴纳出版费用，该刊在自身页面上公布金额。

• The impact figure has moved upward in recent editions, standing at 2.6 for 2023 and reaching 3.3 in the 2025 edition.影响因子在近期各版中上行，2023 年为 2.6，2025 年版为 3.3。

• The journal is indexed in the emerging sources citation index, and it is carried in Scopus and in the directory of open access journals.该刊被新兴资源引文索引收录，并被 Scopus 与开放获取期刊目录收录。

• Its conference-length papers are also gathered in an engineering index, and the journal is carried in that database as well.其会议篇幅的论文亦被一所工程索引汇集，该刊同样被收录于那个数据库。

• Topical collections are assembled around a subject, and the journal gathers work on such themes as propulsion systems and components.该刊围绕某一题目编成专题合集，汇集诸如推进系统与部件一类主题的工作。

Editors

• Joeri Van Mierlo of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel is editor-in-chief, and his own field is the modelling and assessment of electric vehicles.布鲁塞尔自由大学的（Joeri Van Mierlo）担任主编，其本人领域为电动汽车的建模与评估。

• He has led the title through its growth under the present publisher, and he signs its annual message to readers.他带领该刊在现出版方之下发展壮大，并署名为读者写下的年度致辞。

• A body of academic editors shares the handling of papers, and the journal draws them from several countries.一组学术编辑分担稿件处理，该刊从数个国家遴请人选。

• The journal sets out the classes of manuscript it takes, along with the length and structure each of them should follow.该刊列明所收稿件的类别，以及各类别应遵循的篇幅与结构。

• Each paper is sent to independent referees, and the journal reports the median time from submission to a first decision.每篇论文送交独立审稿人，该刊报告从投稿到首次决定的中位时间。

• Authors must declare any competing interest, and the journal states its ethical requirements in full.作者必须声明任何利益冲突，该刊完整说明其伦理要求。

• Similarity checking is applied to each submission, and the journal records the service it uses for the purpose.每篇投稿都做相似度检查，该刊记录了为此使用的服务。

• Authors keep the copyright of their work, and every article is released under a licence that allows reuse with attribution.作者保留其作品的著作权，每篇文章以允许署名再用的许可发布。

• A waiver and discount scheme is offered to authors from certain countries, and the journal points to the publisher's scheme.该刊向某些国家的作者提供费用减免，并指明出版方的相关方案。

• Reviewers are drawn from the field itself, and the journal records its thanks to them and to the editorial board.审稿人从领域内部遴请，该刊为他们与编委会公开致谢。

• The journal awards a travel prize to young researchers, and the winner is chosen by the editor-in-chief and senior board members.该刊向青年研究者颁发参会旅费奖，得主由主编与资深编委选出。

• The journal is read by vehicle engineers and by battery chemists, by power electronics specialists and by transport planners, and it writes for all of them.该刊的读者既有车辆工程师与电池化学家，也有电力电子专家与交通规划者，它为这几类人写作。

• Work that carries a laboratory cell toward a vehicle is given room, and the journal asks what the carrying changes.把实验室电芯带向整车的工作有篇幅可用，该刊追问这一带动改变了什么。

• Studies that report a negative result are taken, since a chemistry that failed to hold up in a pack is worth recording.报告阴性结果的研究也在收载之列，因为在电池组中未能量住的化学体系同样值得记录。

• Work on a charging station appears among the subjects, and the journal carries papers on how a site is sized and sited.充电站点方面的工作列于选题之中，该刊刊载站点如何被定容与选址的论文。

• The journal keeps its reviews distinct from its original reports, and a reader can tell from the rubric which is which.该刊把综述与原始报告区分开来，读者可从栏目看出何者为何者。