The number of electric cars, vans, trucks and buses on the world's roads is rapidly increasing, with a larger variety of electric vehicle (EV) models commercially available. Nevertheless, typical users still have concerns when comparing them to internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, such as...

Data sets of spatially irregular meteorological observations interpolated to a regular grid are not only important for climate analyses but are also essential in order to derive climatologies for rainfall-runoff models which require meteorological data sets as input forcing. For example, in the...

Energy consumption is a major cost component in all mining operations. Electrical systems are quite often over-designed, and as such have high energy consumption while in an idling state and quite often having peak power values several times higher than the average power; due to the intermittent...