Connected vehicles - Advancements in vehicular technologies and informatics

Vehicles are becoming increasingly more sophisticated and the technology being developed in them covers a number of areas. At the heart of these developments are often the communication, information and control systems. This is very much illustrated in this "Special Section on Connected Vehicles - Advancements in Vehicular Technologies and Informatics" of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics that we are pleased to present. The Special Section contains twelve papers related to automotive technology. Obviously there a range of areas covered from very high speed machines, that could be used for cooling fans in automotive fuel cells or scaled up for drive motors, to energy management and into various communications aspects of vehicular technology.