Electric Vehicles (EVs) are continuing to grow their share of total vehicle sales as consumers, companies, and governments prioritize automotive electrification. Types EVs include hybrid electric, plug-in battery fuel cell vehicles. Today, commonly use an ac permanent magnet or induction motor. A traction inverter is a critical drivetrain element required convert the dc current available from p...

Smart homes can offer significant benefits to residents. Specifically, their combination with electric vehicles (EVs) can support environmental sustainability, as they can use part of their battery to cover household consumption needs. We present a Mobility Integrated Energy Management IS artifact that supports a smart home owner’s decisions with regard to using household appliances and chargin...

Electric vehicles (EV) can become integral parts of a smart grid, since they are capable of providing valuable services to power systems other than just consuming power. As an important solution to balance the intermittent renewable energy resources, such as wind power and PVs, EVs can absorb the energy during the period of high electricity penetration and feed the electricity back into the gri...

The UK government has set the ambitious targets of 20 and 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and 2050 respectively. The transport sector accounts for 21% of total CO2 emissions in the UK and can, therefore, be important for achieving the emissions reduction targets. Within the transport sector, electric vehicles (EV) are considered as one of the important mitigation options. Howe...

The Theme: Due to environmental and energy concerns, electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) are gaining increased attention. At the heart of the drive system of these vehicles is the electric machine and drive. For these applications, high power density, high torque density, wide speed range, and efficiency are of primary importance. To meet these demands, interior permanen...

Electric vehicles (EVs) need highly optimized thermal management systems to improve range. Climate control can reduce vehicle efficiency and range by more than 50%. Due to the relative shortage of waste heat, heating the passenger cabin in EVs is difficult. Cabin cooling can take a high portion of the energy available in the battery. Compared to internal combustion engine-driven vehicles, diffe...

Abstract. Simulation tools are of great assistance to engineers and researchers to reduce productdevelopment cycle time, improve the quality of the design, and simplify the analysis without costly and timeconsuming experiments. In this paper, a model of Electric Vehicles (EVs) propulsion system has been constructed with the simulation platform SABER. It was chosen because of the robust modeling...

New transportation systems have to be developed to face the increase of pollution and the depletion of petroleum resources. Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) and Electric Vehicles (EVs) are developed as short term solutions. MEGEVH is a French scientific network which aims to propose generic methodology for efficient energy management of different EVs and HEVs, independently of the kind of vehicl...

The standard solution for the traction system in battery powered electric vehicles (EVs) is a two-level (2L) inverter feeding a three-phase motor. A simple and effective way to achieve a three-level (3L) inverter in battery-supplied electric vehicles consists of using two standard three-phase 2L inverters with the open-end winding connection of standard three-phase ac motors. The 3L inverter so...

Electric or hybrid electric vehicles (EVs/HEVs) have the advantages that they make lesser noise compared to conventional engine vehicles. This quietness is, however, a matter of concern for pedestrians because the sound of EVs/HEVs may be inaudible in urban backgrounds. Hence, the application of additional soundemitting device has been studied. Gathering wide range of acoustic knowledge on feas...