Special Issue on Future Powertrain Technologies

Beside others, climate change and digitalization are trends of huge public interest, which highly influence the development process of future powertrain technologies. To handle these trends, new disruptive technologies are integrated into the development process. They open up space for diverse research, which is distributed over the entire vehicle design process. Recent research on this topic incorporates results for selecting and designing the powertrain topology [1–7] with their vehicle operating strategy [8,9], as well as results for handling the reliability of new powertrain components [10–12].