Abstract — Economics and environmental incentives, as well as advances in technology, are reshaping the traditional view of industrial systems. The anticipation of a large penetration of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) and Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs) into the market brings up many technical problems that are highly related to industrial information technologies within the next 10 years. There is a need for an in-depth understanding of the electrification of transportation in the industrial environment. It is important to consolidate the practical and the conceptual knowledge of industrial informatics in order to support the emerging electric vehicle (EV) technologies. This paper presents a comprehensive overview of the electrification of transportation in an industrial environment. In addition, it provides a comprehensive survey of the EVs in the field of industrial informatics systems, namely: 1) Charging Infrastructure and PHEV/PEV Batteries, 2) Intelligent Energy Management, 3) Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G), 4) Communication Requirements. Moreover, this paper presents a future perspective of industrial information technologies to accelerate the market introduction and penetration of advanced electric drive vehicles. Index Terms— Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV), Plug-in Electric Vehicle (PEV), Electric Vehicle (EV), Smart Grid, Charging Infrastructure, Battery, Vehicle-to- Grid (V2G), Energy Management, Communication I. INTRODUCTION CONOMIC and environmental incentives, as well as advances in technology, are reshaping the traditional view of industrial systems. Plug-in Hybrid This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation, Award number: EEC-0812121 and ECS-0823952. This work is a part of an ongoing project in collaboration of the FREEDM systems center (Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management) with ADAC (Advanced Diagnosis Automation and Control) Lab at North Carolina State University and ATEC (Advanced Transportation Energy Center). 1 Wencong Su, 2 Habiballah Rahimi Eichi, 3 Wente Zeng, and 4 Mo- Yuen Chow are with the Department of Electrical Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27606, USA 4 Mo-Yuen Chow is also with the Changjiang Scholars Program, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. (e-mail: wsu2@ncsu.edu; hrahimi@ncsu.edu; wzeng3@ncsu.edu; chow@ncsu.edu, respectively) Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) and Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs) have received increasing attention because of their low pollution emissions and high fuel economy. In 2007, on a net basis, the United States imported 58% of what it consumed [1]. Most US imported oil comes from unstable regions, which is a potential threat to US national security. Ultimately, PHEVs/PEVs will transfer energy demands from crude oil to electricity for the personal transportation sector [2]. This shift would reduce pollution and alleviate security issues related to oil extraction, importation, and combustion. Along with the utilization of grid power, PHEVs/PEVs also have the potential to transfer power to the grid to alleviate peak power demand and provide ancillary services to the grid [3]. The US government puts a lot of effort into accelerating the introduction and penetration of advanced electric drive vehicles into the market. The US Department of Energy projects that about 1 million PHEVs/PEVs will be on the road by 2015 and 425,000 PHEVs/PEVs will be sold in 2015 alone. At this penetration rate, PHEVs/PEVs would account for 2.5% of all new vehicle sales in 2015 [4]. The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) projects that 62% of the entire US vehicle fleet will consist of PHEVs/PEVs by 2050 using a moderate penetration scenario [5]. However, there is an in-depth need to address the potential problems caused by the emergence of PHEVs/PEVs. For instance, Energy storage (i.e., batteries) is the key enabling technology for EVs. The fuel efficiency and performance of novel vehicles with electric propulsion capability are largely limited by the performance of the energy storage system [6, 7]. Another emerging issue is that a large number of PHEVs/PEVs connected to the grid simultaneously may pose a huge threat to the quality and stability of the overall power system [8]. Due to certain technical and economical issues, Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) is still less likely to become a reality in the short term [9]. Having effective communications technologies will be critical to the successful rollout of EVs [10]. The remainder of this paper is organized as follows: Section II discusses the-state-of-the-art PHEV/PEV Wencong Su 1 , Student Member, IEEE, Habiballah Rahimi Eichi 2 , Student Member, IEEE, Wente Zeng 3 , Student Member, IEEE, and Mo-Yuen Chow 4 , Fellow, IEEE A Survey on the Electrification of Transportation in a Smart Grid Environment E