This paper reviews and improves a recently proposed model of road network dynamics. The model is also adapted and generalised to represent the patterns of battery consumption of electric vehicles traveling in the road network. Simulations from the mobility simulator SUMO are given to support and to illustrate the efficacy of the proposed approach. Applications relevant in the field of electric ...

This paper presents a smart DC micro-grid system for plug-in electric vehicle charging and discharging. This DC microgrid integrates the plug-in battery electric vehicles (BEVs) & plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) together with the AC supply module, storage energy module, and intelligent control module. By connecting with the AC power source and the storage energy module, this grid can of...

Battery thermal management is critical for high-power battery packs commonly used in electric vehicles (EV) and hybrid electric vehicles (HEV). To design battery thermal management systems properly, obtaining accurate heat generation data from battery modules is essential. To measure heat generation from full-size, multiple-cell battery modules, we developed and tested a custom-made calorimeter...

This paper proposes a framework for generating battery test profile that accounts the complex operating conditions of electric vehicles, which is essential ensuring durability and safety system used in these vehicles. Additionally, such could potentially accelerate development To achieve this objective, study utilizes simplified longitudinal dynamics model incorporates various factors as drivet...

Vehicle-to-grid power (V2G) uses electric-drive vehicles (battery, fuel cell, or hybrid) to provide power for specific electric markets. This article examines the systems and processes needed to tap energy in vehicles and implement V2G. It quantitatively compares today’s light vehicle fleet with the electric power system. The vehicle fleet has 20 times the power capacity, less than one-tenth th...

Electric vehicles are able to reduce local and global emissions from the transport sector and thereby could help to slow down global warming if they achieved significant market shares. As all other vehicles, they need a charging or refuelling infrastructure to be built up simultaneously to vehicle market penetration. With the current disability to store energy for long distance trips in batteri...

P ERSONAL transportation offers people freedom, but this choice of freedom creates a conflict with growing environmental concerns and the sustainability of humanity's use of natural resources. Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) improve fuel efficiency by optimizing powertrain operation and recovering kinetic energy during braking, hence reducing liquid fuel consumption in the transportation sector...

As an effective means of displacing fossil fuel consumption and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) have attracted more and more attentions. From the power grid perspective, PHEVs and PEVs equipped with batteries can also be used as energy storage facilities, due to the fact that, these vehicles are parked most of the ...

An upcoming introduction of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and electric vehicles could put power systems’ infrastructure under strain in the absence of charging control. The charging of electric vehicles could be managed centrally by a socalled aggregator, which would take advantage of the flexibility of these loads. To determine optimal charging profiles day-ahead, the aggregator needs infor...

Hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and battery electric vehicles--known collectively as electric drive vehicles (EDVs)--may represent a clean and affordable option to meet growing U.S. light duty vehicle (LDV) demand. The goal of this study is 2-fold: identify the conditions under which EDVs achieve high LDV market penetration in the U.S. and quantify the associated change in CO2, SO2, and NOX emissions t...