2010 March - 33 articles
This publication deals with the optimization of a linear generator (LG) intended for use in a hybrid power train design for a vehicle. The system in which the LG is integrated is called free-piston linear generator (FPLG). The free-piston linear gene...
The energy efficiency for electric vehicle battery is affected by many factors. Through the definition of energy efficiency we find the relationship between energy efficiency, voltage efficiency and coulomb efficiency. The factors such as current, in...
Electromagnetic active suspension system is considered to have improved stability and better dynamic response, compared to the hydraulic active suspension system. To investigate the influence of suspension parameters on system characteristics, the fr...
In recent years the trend of an increasing electrification was observable in automotive engineering. That yields an increase in both the total power and the short-term power peaks. Because of the high currents, it is becoming difficult to guarantee v...
This study expects that the automatic driving control for passing through intersection has potential for energy saving and solving traffic jams. Therefore, first, this study calculates the predicted effect of the automatic driving control at intersec...
This paper proposes a design of power system control in the hybrid electric vehicle. It adopts the isolated DC/DC power converter as the front-end fuel cell and Lithium-ion battery to supply constant voltage. By micro-controller to detect the hybrid...
This paper describes the crashworthiness of electric vehicles when the vehicle has alterations from a gasoline engine to an electric motor. The crashworthiness is dependent on the crushable length of the frame and the center of gravity. It is presume...
Hybrid MPV control strategy is researched by building simulation model under Matlab/Simulink/Stateflow environment, and auto-generated code is downloaded to vehicle control unit. With this approach, proved by experiment, the development of hybrid MPV...
The main purpose of this paper is to develop the on-board generator (named “GENSET”), equipped on the Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) in Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan. Based on the developed electric power component...
Electric vehicles (EVs) have been developed with the aims of saving energy and reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Furthermore, as a single bus can transport many people, buses produce low carbon dioxide emissions per person in comparison with cars. I...
The purpose of this research is to develop an energy management strategy for a hybrid tricycle. The hybrid tricycle has two wheels at the front and one wheel at the rear. The front wheels are driven by in-wheel motors and the rear wheel is driven by...
This paper aims at the parametric drive train design, modeling and performance simulation of a parallel diesel hybrid electric bus(PHEB). AVL/CRUISE and MATLAB/SIMULINK are used for modeling and simulation. The simulation tasks include fuel consumpti...
An electrification of vehicles can contribute to increased energy efficiency and decreased air pollution in urban environments. The high vehicle costs involved, especially for the batteries, means that careful considerations of the options are needed...
PEV（pure electric vehicle）promotion can not only mitigate the recent traditional vehicle contradiction between supply and demand of energy, solve the vehicle energy problem after the exhaustion of fossil fuel, but also improve environment quality and...
This paper presents the Energy Management Strategy (EMS) and control laws of an inverse differential gear hybrid vehicle and also the simulation results for the dynamics response and performance of the system. In the system, an engine and a motor/gen...
OEMs need to take action to cope with the changes brought about by the shift to the electric powertrain. As EVs gain market share, revenue pools along the value chain will change significantly. Higher battery costs, decreased fuel and energy revenues...
The HOST project developed concept and prototype for an innovative low polluting modular transport mean suitable for the urban transport of people and goods. Main HOST commercial innovation is to use one vehicle for four different transport service i...
This paper presents an implementation of a versatile full-scale hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) verification environment for testing of heavy-duty hybrid electric vehicles and mobile work machines. The test facility includes a full-scale hybrid system tha...
Electric vehicle with more advantages of no noise, no pollution, saving energy and reduce carbon dioxide emissions is to power-driven vehicle with a motor drive wheels moving. Solar electric vehicle can make to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and...
In a proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell/battery hybrid vehicle, a fuel cell system fulfills the stationary power demand, and a traction battery provides the accelerating power and recycles braking energy. The entire system is coordinated by a d...
Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cell is favored in automotive applications because it is clean, efficiency and quiet. Performance of a fuel cell-powered vehicle depends on two aspects, the component sizing and the control strategy. The former det...
The solar and lithium-ion hybrid electric midibus is a new energy vehicles.According to the 21 low-speed integrated Li-ion power midibus’s design and development requirements,this paper introduces some key Technologies need to be resolved,such as veh...
Heavy duty off-road vehicle (HDOR) duty cycles are very different than passenger car cycles. HDOR duty cycles are characterized by heavy transient loads and highly varying constant power demands. Straddle carriers and mine loaders can operate 20 hour...
This paper is part of an ongoing HybLab project funded by the Multidisciplinary Institute of Digitalization and Energy (MIDE) of Aalto University School of Science and Technology. First results and plans were presented in EVS24 [1]. The focus in this...
Fuel cell vehicle (FCV) is the focus of new energy vehicles research, in which the study of the powertrain is one of the crucial. This paper introduces the structure and working principle of the FCV powertrain, and analyses the critical powertrain co...
In this paper the dynamic analysis of an electric vehicle (EV) has been investigated. The vehicle suspension system was built using multi-body dynamics (MBD) software, Altair MotionView/MotionSolve. Using the model, the dynamic properties of a target...
This article describes a methodology for the optimization of hybrid propulsion systems combining an onroad measurement campaign with the development of a simulation tool. This methodology has been applied in particular on a series-hybrid city bus. Th...
In this paper, a parallel HEV hybrid controller is developed in the MATLAB/Simulink environment. Using the driver commands, the battery state of charge and the engine map, a set of efficient rules has been developed to efficiently split the power bet...
The electric air conditioning system is in relation to the comfort of the electric vehicle. In this paper, the influence of several parameters on the electric air conditioning system was studied. The model of the air conditioning system was developed...
This paper researches and designs a digital controlled boost power factor correction (PFC) of 2kW on-board charger with the method of continuous conduction mode (CCM), which is based on the DSP of TMS320F280. Multiple-loop control strategy with the i...
The article gives an illustration about low speed wheel motor hybrid vehicle(LWP), firstly, introduces the structure of fuel cell vehicle and function of components; secondly, presents vehicle control policy, thirstily, takes an emulation about the p...
For the electro-mechanical hybrid braking system, which is composed of electric brake and general friction brake, the models of electric braking force, total braking force and the utilization adhesion coefficient for front and rear axles were establi...
Fuzzy control strategy is developed for the dual-clutch single-axis torque coupling parallel hybrid electric vehicle. In this paper the torque distribution fuzzy controller which has been designed for the hybrid vehicle which is optimized by genetic...
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