Energy management in vehicles is an important issue because it can significantly influence the performances of the vehicles. Improving energy management in vehicles can deliver important benefits such as reducing fuel consumption, decreasing emission, lower running cost, reducing noise pollution, and improving driving performance and ease of use. According to Mainins (Manins, 2000), each year m...

Battery operated electric vehicles (BEVs) offer the opportunity of running a zero-emission car fleet. However, due to their current range constraints, electric vehicle operations are mainly attractive for inner-city transport, such as the taxi business. This paper is bringing together facts and assumptions about Berlin’s taxi transport and the current conditions of BEVs in Germany to provide th...

Policymakers, consumers and manufacturers are all agreed – the auto industry needs to adopt electrification to address climate change and dwindling natural resources – yet we still see very few hybrid and electric vehicles on the road today. Given the will is there, why the lack of adoption? In reality the main reason is not the technology, but rather the cost of developing the technology in th...

The paper present’s a survey of the wheel vehicles drives with electric and hybrid drive system. For electric and hybrid vehicle applications, wheels motor and magnetic circuits cutting motor drives, represented a new attractive solution for their lightness and compactness. The wheels are directly driven by the electric motor, and the gears are not necessary anymore. An alternating solution of ...

(HEVs) have existed since before 1900 (Figure 1), interest in these vehicles has grown substantially only in the last 15–20 years. The main reason for this interest is the expectation that HEVs represent a short-term approach to improving fuel efficiency and reducing pollutant emissions of automobiles. In internal-combustion-engine (ICE) systems, the mechanical power needed to drive the vehicle...

The main contributions of this paper are the development of a forward-looking hybrid vehicle simulation tool, and its application to the design of a power management control algorithm. The hybrid electric vehicle simulation tool (HE-VESIM) was developed at the Automotive Research Center of the University of Michigan to study the potential fuel economy and emission benefits of the parallel hybri...

Hybrid electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and battery electric vehicles offer the potential to reduce both oil imports and greenhouse gases, as well as to offer a financial benefit to the driver. However, assessing these potential benefits is complicated by several factors, including the driving habits of the operator. We focus on driver aggression, i.e., the level of accelera...