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...

This report summarizes the studies done during the fall 2007 semester. It includes the literature review, and research done on the subject of the Ph.D. dissertation. Since the oil crises of the 1970's, fuel economy has been one of the dominant issues in automotive industry. Therefore, a lot of research work has been focused on finding more efficient methods for transportation. One approach is p...

Complies with the regulations of the University and meets the accepted standards with respect to originality and quality. Batteries, ultra capacitors (UCs), and fuel cells (FCs) are widely being proposed for electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (EVs/PHEVs) as energy sources. The increasing popularity of EVs and PHEVs can be attributed to the savings in fuel costs, compared to conventio...

Nowadays, energy efficiency is a top priority, boosted by a major concern with climatic changes and by the soaring oil prices in countries that have a large dependency on imported fossil fuels. A great part of the oil consumption is currently allocated to the transportation sector and a large portion of that is used by road vehicles. According to the international energy outlook report, the tra...

The contribution of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid (PHEVs) to mitigating/reducing fine particulate matter (PM2.5) emissions was researched through a panel 29 European countries from 2010 2019, using the econometric technique method moments quantile regression (MM-QR). This research is innovative by connecting increasing use with PM2.5 MM-QR explore this relationship. Two mo...

Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles are a promising alternative to gas-only vehicles and offer the potential to greatly reduce fuel use in transportation. Their potential energy consumption is highly linked to the size of components. This study focuses on the impact of the electric system energy and power on control and energy consumption. Based on a parallel pre-transmission architecture, several...

This paper proposes an Energy Management Strategy (EMS) for a plug-in parallel Hybrid Electric Vehicle (pHEV) with the goal of minimising fuel consumption while fulfilling constraint on terminal battery State-of-Charge (SoC). The proposed strategy assumes that route was previously covered several times by vehicle, in order to extract information about feasible operating conditions driving cycle...