Experimental Research of Transmissions on Electric Vehicles’ Energy Consumption
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School of Production Engineering & Management, Technical University of Crete, 73100 Chania, Greece
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Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Applied Sciences, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, 73133 Chania, Greece
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Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, 71410 Heraklion, Greece
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Energies 2019, 12(3), 388; https://doi.org/10.3390/en12030388
Received: 10 December 2018
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Revised: 17 January 2019
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Accepted: 22 January 2019
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Published: 26 January 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Alternative Sources of Energy Modeling and Automation)
The growth of electric vehicles share of total passenger-vehicle sales is evident and is expected to be a very big market segment by 2030. Range of travel and pricing are the most influencing factors that affect their gain in market share. As so, powertrain development is a key technology factor researched by the automotive industry. To explore, among others, how the energy consumption of zero emission vehicles is affected by different transmissions, we developed, built and installed a variety of them on a custom hydrogen fuel cell powered urban vehicle. In this work we present a comparison of the effect, on the energy consumption of the proposed testbed, of a prototype custom build 2-speed gearbox and a single stage transmission. Results presented show a reduction of the overall energy consumption with the use of the 2-speed gearbox, compared to single stage, as well as the effect of gear change speed, related to speed, in energy consumption. Finally, a correlation of experimental results using a custom build CVT is conducted compared to single stage transmission. A comparison to simulation results found in literature is performed for all the transmissions tested on road.
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Keywords:
transmission; electric vehicle; 2-speed; gear change; CVT; energy consumption
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Spanoudakis, P.; Tsourveloudis, N.C.; Doitsidis, L.; Karapidakis, E.S. Experimental Research of Transmissions on Electric Vehicles’ Energy Consumption. Energies 2019, 12, 388. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12030388
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Spanoudakis P, Tsourveloudis NC, Doitsidis L, Karapidakis ES. Experimental Research of Transmissions on Electric Vehicles’ Energy Consumption. Energies. 2019; 12(3):388. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12030388
Chicago/Turabian StyleSpanoudakis, Polychronis, Nikolaos C. Tsourveloudis, Lefteris Doitsidis, and Emmanuel S. Karapidakis. 2019. "Experimental Research of Transmissions on Electric Vehicles’ Energy Consumption" Energies 12, no. 3: 388. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12030388
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