In this work the fuel consumption of two vehicles is compared. For investigating the fuel consumption a whole vehicle simulation is developed with the SmartPowerTrains library and the SmartElectricDrives library. Both librarys are written in Modelica language. As a reference vehicle a conventional vehicle with manual transmission is modeled. A parallel hybrid electric vehicle with a starter/gen...

Using an Electric Differential (ED) in electric vehicle has many advantages such as flexibility and direct torque control of the wheels during cornering and risky maneuvers. Despite its reported successes and advantages, the ED has several problems limits its applicability, for instance, an increment of control loops and an increase of computational effort. In this paper, an electric differenti...

The transport sector in Greece has the largest share in the final energy consumption and the resulting emissions are one of the main sources of atmospheric pollution. This situation is worse in the region of Attica, where nearly half of the country’s private cars circulate in an area equal to 3 % of the total country area; the region’s climatic and geomorphological characteristics further aggra...

Environmental issues and consumer concerns have paved the way for governments to legislate and help usher into operation alternativefueled vehicles and pertinent infrastructures. In the last decade, batterypowered electric vehicles have been introduced and the service industry has followed suit and deployed such trucks in their distribution networks. However, electric vehicles do impose limitat...

In this work the effect of weight reduction using advanced lightweight materials on the mass, energy use, and cost of conventional and battery electric passenger vehicles is compared. Analytic vehicle simulation is coupled with cost assessment to find the optimal degree of weight reduction minimizing manufacturing and total costs. The results show a strong secondary weight and cost saving poten...

One promising technology to interface battery packs in electric and hybrid electric vehicles is the multilevel converter. In the work presented here, it is shown how the switching times (angles) in a multilevel inverter can be chosen to achieve a required fundamental voltage and not generate specific higher order harmonics. The method gives a complete solution to the problem in that all possibl...

The dwindling energy resources and the compliance of international climate protection goals lead to a rethink in the automobile sector. One result of this rethink is the increasing distribution of electric vehicles in the last years. This development includes a new challenge for the training sector. For example, the implementation of a highvoltage system into automobiles involves a new hazard p...

We study whether taxi companies can simultaneously save petroleum and money by transitioning to electric vehicles. We propose a process to compute the return on investment (ROI) of transitioning a taxi corporation’s fleet to electric vehicles. We use Bayesian data analysis to infer the revenue changes associated with the transition. We do not make any assumptions about the vehicles’ mobility pa...

Zhenpo Wang 1, Yachao Wang 1, Lei Zhang 1,* and Mingchun Liu 2 1 Collaborative Innovation Center for Electric Vehicles in Beijing & National Engineering Laboratory for Electric Vehicles, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China; [email protected] (Z.W.); [email protected] (Y.W.) 2 School of Mechatronics Engineering, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China; liumingchun@nc...