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  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,988 Views
18 Pages

Experimental Research on Regulated and Unregulated Emissions from E20-Fuelled Vehicles and Hybrid Electric Vehicles

  • Tao Qiu,
  • Yakun Zhao,
  • Yan Lei,
  • Zexun Chen,
  • Dongdong Guo,
  • Fulu Shi and
  • Tao Wang

Ethanol as a renewable fuel has been applied in fuel vehicles (FVs), and it is promising in hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). This work aims to investigate the emission characteristics of ethanol applied in both FVs and plug-in hybrid electric vehicle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,979 Views
16 Pages

BEVs (Battery Electric Vehicles) have received widespread attention from various countries for their potential in combating global warming, the energy crisis, and environmental pollution. The driving range and energy consumption of BEVs vary signific...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
14,804 Views
17 Pages

30 August 2024

Regenerative braking technology is essential for reducing energy consumption in electric vehicles (EVs). This study introduces a method for optimizing the distribution of deceleration forces in front-wheel-drive electric vehicles that complies with t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,148 Views
14 Pages

Research on Multifractal Characteristics of Vehicle Driving Cycles

  • Mengting Yuan,
  • Wenguang Luo,
  • Hongli Lan and
  • Yongxin Qin

26 March 2023

Vehicle driving cycles have complex characteristics, but there are few publicly reported methods for their quantitative characterization. This paper innovatively investigates their multifractal characteristics using the fractal theory to characterize...

  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
9,850 Views
12 Pages

Comparison of Portable Emissions Measurement Systems (PEMS) with Laboratory Grade Equipment

  • Roberto Aliandro Varella,
  • Barouch Giechaskiel,
  • Luís Sousa and
  • Gonçalo Duarte

12 September 2018

Real-driving emissions (RDE) testing with portable emissions measurement systems (PEMS) during the type approval and in-service conformity of light-duty vehicles was recently introduced in the European Union legislation. In this paper, three PEMS wer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,679 Views
15 Pages

9 October 2024

The power battery configuration of an extended-range electric vehicle directly affects the overall performance of the vehicle. Optimization of the output voltage of the power battery can improve the overall power and economy of the vehicle to ensure...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
10,957 Views
34 Pages

Regenerative Braking of Electric Vehicles Based on Fuzzy Control Strategy

  • Zongjun Yin,
  • Xuegang Ma,
  • Rong Su,
  • Zicheng Huang and
  • Chunying Zhang

15 October 2023

Regenerative braking technology is a viable solution for mitigating the energy consumption of electric vehicles. Constructing a distribution strategy for regenerative braking force will directly affect the energy saving efficiency of electric vehicle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,695 Views
17 Pages

16 June 2022

Four-wheel-drive electric vehicles with multiple motors have several advantages such as energy saving, environmental protection, and excellent dynamics performance. Therefore, they have become an important development trend in the field of electric v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,527 Views
14 Pages

25 February 2022

A compound energy management strategy is proposed to improve the fuel cell’s durability and the economy of fuel cell hybrid electric vehicles (FCHEV). A control strategy that combines fuzzy control and switching control is proposed, taking into accou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,931 Views
16 Pages

To address the coordinated distribution of motor braking and friction braking for the regenerative braking system, a cooperative braking algorithm based on nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) is proposed, with braking energy recovery power, tir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,975 Views
16 Pages

Compared with batteries, ultracapacitors have higher specific power and longer cycle life. They can act as power buffers to absorb peak power during charging and discharging, playing a role in peak shaving and valley filling, thereby extending the cy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,897 Views
13 Pages

Modeling and Evaluation of SiC Inverters for EV Applications

  • Hui Su,
  • Lijun Zhang,
  • Dejian Meng,
  • Yisu Li,
  • Na Han and
  • Yuxin Xia

24 September 2022

In this paper, the efficiency benefits of adopting Silicon–Carbide devices for electric vehicle applications are studied. A hybrid time and frequency domain-based simulation tool is developed for the Silicon–Carbide (SiC) traction inverte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,665 Views
20 Pages

Assessment of the Effect of Road Load on Energy Consumption and Exhaust Emissions of a Hybrid Vehicle in an Urban Road Driving Cycle—Comparison of Road and Chassis Dynamometer Tests

  • Artur Jaworski,
  • Hubert Kuszewski,
  • Krzysztof Lew,
  • Paweł Wojewoda,
  • Krzysztof Balawender,
  • Paweł Woś,
  • Rafał Longwic and
  • Sergii Boichenko

31 July 2023

Differences between the results obtained in laboratory and road tests of vehicles depend on a number of factors. Among the most important of these are driving cycle and road load. These parameters also affect the hybrid drive control, including the c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,155 Views
15 Pages

1 October 2022

A dual fuzzy control strategy is proposed for the complex energy management problem in a multi-energy-source hybrid power system vehicle with fuel cell + Li-ion battery + super capacitor. According to the efficiency characteristic of each energy sour...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,006 Views
33 Pages

14 December 2023

With increasing global attention to climate change and environmental sustainability, the sustainable development of the automotive industry has become an important issue. This study focuses on the regenerative braking issues in pure electric vehicles...

  • Review
  • Open Access
48 Citations
10,571 Views
24 Pages

Driving Cycles for Estimating Vehicle Emission Levels and Energy Consumption

  • Amanuel Gebisa,
  • Girma Gebresenbet,
  • Rajendiran Gopal and
  • Ramesh Babu Nallamothu

1 November 2021

Standard driving cycles (DCs) and real driving emissions (RDE) legislation developed by the European Commission contains significant gaps with regard to quantifying local area vehicle emission levels and fuel consumption (FC). The aim of this paper w...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
866 Views
24 Pages

6 June 2025

Aiming at the problems of energy utilization efficiency and braking stability in electric vehicles, a high-efficiency and energy-saving control strategy that takes both driving and braking into account is proposed with the distributed hub motor-drive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,451 Views
21 Pages

22 December 2021

To achieve the real-time application of a dynamic programming (DP) control strategy, we propose a predictive energy management strategy (PEMS) based on full-factor trip information, including vehicle speed, slip ratio and slope. Firstly, the predicti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,289 Views
23 Pages

24 February 2023

In this study, a three-dimensional transient simulation model of a liquid cooling thermal management system with flow distributors and spiral channel cooling plates for pouch lithium-ion batteries has been developed. The cooling plates play the role...

  • Article
  • Open Access
214 Views
15 Pages

Emission Characterizations of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) from Light-Duty Gasoline Vehicles in China

  • Chongzhi Zhong,
  • Qiyuan Xie,
  • Weida Ju,
  • Xianquan Huang,
  • Juntao Zhao,
  • Yuhuan Ding,
  • Yuying Liang and
  • Mingjing Luo

11 January 2026

Vehicle emissions are key precursors to near-ground ozone and secondary aerosol formation. While China’s clean air actions have significantly reduced particulate pollution, ozone levels continue to rise in some city clusters, calling for a deep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,636 Views
26 Pages

This study investigates the influence of the considered Electric Equivalent Circuit Model (ECM) parameter dependencies and architectures on the predicted heat generation rate by using the Bernardi equation. For this purpose, the whole workflow, from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,751 Views
27 Pages

20 October 2022

Range-extended Electric Vehicles (REVs) have become popular due to their lack of emissions while driving in urban areas, and the elimination of range anxiety when traveling long distances with a combustion engine as the power source. The fuel consump...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,513 Views
17 Pages

The key to improving the fuel economy of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) lies in the energy management strategy (EMS). Existing EMS often neglects engine operating conditions, leading to frequent start–stop events, which affect fuel ec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,654 Views
22 Pages

Modeling and Integrated Optimization of Power Split and Exhaust Thermal Management on Diesel Hybrid Electric Vehicles

  • Jinghua Zhao,
  • Yunfeng Hu,
  • Fangxi Xie,
  • Xiaoping Li,
  • Yao Sun,
  • Hongyu Sun and
  • Xun Gong

10 November 2021

To simultaneously achieve high fuel efficiency and low emissions in a diesel hybrid electric vehicle (DHEV), it is necessary to optimize not only power split but also exhaust thermal management for emission aftertreatment systems. However, how to coo...