The charging infrastructure plays a key role in the healthy and rapid development of the electric vehicle industry. This paper presents an energy management and control system of an electric vehicle charging station. The charging station (CS) is integrated to a grid-connected hybrid power system having a wind turbine maximum power point tracking (MPPT) controlled subsystem, photovoltaic (PV) MP...

Both sales of hybrid vehicles and the number of hybrid models have risen steadily in the U.s. since their introduction, with that growth trend accelerating sharply starting in 2003. The forty-five hybrid models available in 2014 captured about 2.75% of the overall U.s. passenger vehicle market, down slightly from 3.19% in 2013. For purposes of comparison, hybrid market share is about 6% of vehi...

A hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) has two types of energy storage units, electricity and fuel. Electricity means that a battery (sometimes assisted by ultracaps) is used to store the energy, and that an electromotor (from now on called motor) will be used as traction motor. Fuel means that a tank is required, and that an Internal Combustion Engine (ICE, from now on called engine) is used to gener...

In hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), the power network takes an ever-important role, which functions to adjust the engine operating region for less emissions, to incorporate the electric machine for higher overall efficiency, and to feed the increasing demand of electric loads with different voltage levels. Furthermore, more and more mechanically, pneumatically or hydraulically driven systems ar...

The quest for more fuel-efficient vehicles is being driven by the increasing price of oil. Hybrid electric powertrains have established a presence in the marketplace primarily based on the promise of fuel savings through the use of an electric motor in place of the internal combustion engine during different stages of driving. However, these fuel savings associated with hybrid vehicle operation...

This paper provides an overview of the latest advances in road vehicle suspension design, dynamics, and control, together with the authors' perspectives, in the context of vehicle ride, handling and stability. The general aspects of road vehicle suspension dynamics and design are discussed, followed by descriptions of road roughness excitations with a particular emphasis on road potholes. Passi...

Hybrid Electrical Vehicle (HEV) fuel economy highly depends on power allocation between the different power sources — engine and fuel cell — and the energy storage system(s). A generic global optimization algorithm has been developed to minimize fuel consumption by optimizing the powertrain power flows. This algorithm was applied on a Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle, and results were generated for sev...

This paper presents a methodology of rapid testing for different control algorithms of electrical drives with inverter-fed induction motors used for the propulsion of hybrid electric vehicles. For analysis, modeling and off-line simulation of the vehicle operations conditions, and also for the testing in real time of the control algorithm performance certain hardware/software products COTS (ADV...