How competitive forces sustain electric vehicle development

How competitive forces shape strategy

Some managers concentrate so single-mindedly on their direct rivals in the fight for market share that they fail to notice other elements in the competitive environment — often with disastrous results. The author of this McKinsey Awardwinning article describes the five "competitive forces" that aflfect the market arena and shows how important it is for a company to consider them all, so as to b...

development and implementation of an optimized control strategy for induction machine in an electric vehicle

in the area of automotive engineering there is a tendency to more electrification of power train. in this work control of an induction machine for the application of electric vehicle is investigated. through the changing operating point of the machine, adapting the rotor magnetization current seems to be useful to increase the machines efficiency. in the literature there are many approaches wh...

Endurance Electric Vehicle Design and Development Considerations

This paper provides a preliminary battery assessment mechanism to address the hypothetical ECO-America EV Challenge. Several battery parameters are discussed in relation to pack needs, in addition to vehicle and environmental considerations. An evaluation method is provided, with a vision based on success and a metric for battery evaluation for the ECO-America Challenge. Five in-house testing p...

Current status and future development of electric vehicle in China

The problem of energy saving and environment protection has become more and more crucial in China. China's energy development process shows that the development of pure electric vehicle to China's energy structure optimization and the construction of the ecological environment. New promising technology that makes the problem solved is reviewed in this paper, including current status of electric...

Development of a CAN Based Electric Vehicle Control System