World Electric Vehicle Journal, Volume 7, Issue 2

As previously reported [1-3], ArcelorMittal has a specific electrical steel product line for core laminations, which optimises the performance for automotive traction electrical machines. This iCARe^® product family consists of Save grades allowing fo...

The mass production of electric vehicles can pressure some specific natural resources that are needed for the production of the motors utilized in such vehicles. In those lines an alternative to the use of rare-earth magnets in the propulsion system...

Axial flux (AF) motors and generators have been used in niche automotive applications for many years. Given their disk like shape they offer distinct advantages for integration into hybrid powertrains where available length is limited. An overview of...

Abnormal electromagnetic noise of traction motor in hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) occurred after the endurance test is experimentally investigated. Theoretical model explains that the abnormal components, which are ±1 orders of the number of slots, c...

This paper presents a new optimization method to design a rotor structure for a permanent magnet motor that can reduce vibration. The optimization problem is formulated with a multi-objective function to minimize the fluctuation of the radial magneti...

Inverters for electric vehicle motor drive systems are essential in converting the battery's direct current into alternating current. Si(Silicon) IGBT that is commonly used in inverter modules have large Vce,sat and turn-off time due to p+ drain and...

The novel Stator Cage Drive marks a paradigm shift in electrical machine design by substituting layers of windings with stator bars that are short-circuited on one end of the machine. Those bars are individually fed from the opposite end of the machi...

This paper proposes a control method robust against the rotor temperature variation for the induction machine used in the xEV traction application. The rotor resistance (or time constant) of the induction machine varies with the rotor temperature so...

Since 2011 the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) is using an in-house developed battery electric vehicle based on a Volkswagen Lupo 3L for educational and research projects. The TU/e Lupo Electric Lightweight (EL) is able to recuperate kineti...

The integrated longitudinal and lateral dynamic motion control is important for four wheel independent drive (4WID) electric vehicles. Under critical driving conditions, direct yaw moment control (DYC) has been proved as effective for vehicle handlin...

An electric vehicle conversion project often faces the problem of a sudden and non-smooth acceleration. From this, we see a great demand in improving the throttle control to have a better human-machine interface and better controllability and safe op...

Since road traffic currently contributes 23% to CO₂ emission, the European Union forces car makers to reduce the average CO₂ emission of their fleet to 95g CO₂/km by 2021. This can only be achieved by electrification of vehicles. It is obvious that t...

This paper shows how a multiobjective problem is formulated and solved in order to size the components of a vehicle with a split hybrid transmission, such as a Toyota Prius. The goal is to explore feasible design options and the trade-offs between fu...

In this paper, control analysis was performed for a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) equipped with a continuously variable transmission (CVT) under various driving conditions. First, a dynamic CVT model was developed by considering hydraulic and mechani...

This study describes method of regenerative breaking control for HEV with multispeed transmission. When a gear is shifted during regenerative breaking, almost all TMED HEVs in the world lose decelerate linearity or reduce regenerative breaking to get...

In a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV), the braking system is composed of friction braking and regenerative braking. When a driver presses the brake pedal, each braking system collaborates and applies braking torque. The friction brake is a hydraulic sys...

Splitting power is a tricky problem for series plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (SPHEVs) for the multi-working modes of powertrain and the hard prediction of future power request of the vehicle. In this work, we present a methodology for splitting po...

In this paper, a novel highly integrated System on Chip (SoC) based control unit concept is presented, which is conceived to combine the functionality of various powertrain ECUs and to additionally enhance their control with predictions based on the...

This paper presents a reliability study of a directly cooled and an indirectly cooled IGBT module after a test drive of 85.000 Km in a fuel cell electric vehicle. In this case, the car was mainly driven on highway, only a minor part of the distance w...

Under hilly road conditions, it is difficult to achieve near-optimal performance of energy management strategy (EMS) of fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle (FCHEV). In order to achieve near-optimality, optimal state reference trajectory is predicted...