Increased use of electric and hybrid electric vehicles (EVs/HEVs) is one of the most promising ways to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. To develop more competitive solutions, one of the trends in the development of drive systems for EVs/HEVs is to integrate the power electronic converter and the electric motor. This thesis aims to investigate the performance and the operation of modular convert...

This paper reviews and improves a recently proposed model of road network dynamics. The model is also adapted and generalised to represent the patterns of battery consumption of electric vehicles traveling in the road network. Simulations from the mobility simulator SUMO are given to support and to illustrate the efficacy of the proposed approach. Applications relevant in the field of electric ...

Full Electrical Vehicles (FEVs) and Hybrid Electrical Vehicles (HEVs) are vehicles with many electric components compared to conventional ones. In fact the power train consists of electrical machines, power electronics and electric energy storage system (battery, super capacitors) connected to mechanical components (transmissions, gear boxes and wheels) and, for HEV, to an Internal Combustion E...

Ximing Cheng 1,2,*, Liguang Yao 1, Yinjiao Xing 2 and Michael Pecht 2 1 Collaborative Innovation Center for Electric Vehicles in Beijing, National Engineering Laboratory for Electric Vehicles, School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China; [email protected] 2 Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE), University of Maryland, College Park, ...

Electric and hybrid electric vehicles are attractive candidates for sustainable transportation due to its higher efficiency and low emission. The critical choice on the electric motors is its capability of motoring and regenerative braking characteristics. Switched reluctance machines are viable candidate as with proper control and extended constant power range operation replacing the multi-gea...

This paper presents a smart DC micro-grid system for plug-in electric vehicle charging and discharging. This DC microgrid integrates the plug-in battery electric vehicles (BEVs) & plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) together with the AC supply module, storage energy module, and intelligent control module. By connecting with the AC power source and the storage energy module, this grid can of...

As electric vehicles become promising alternatives for sustainable and cleaner energy emissions in transportation, the modeling and simulation of electric vehicles has attracted increasing attention from researchers. This paper presents a simulation model of a full electric vehicle on the Matlab-Simulink platform to examine power flow during motoring and regeneration. The drive train components...

The limited driving range of electric vehicles (EV) is one of the biggest deployment challenges for electromobility. We use GPS driving data from a fleet of about 1,000 conventional private vehicles collected over two years to simulate energy consumption of electric cars. We estimate how much energy is required for EV charging at home and at a secondary parking location (e.g., at work) and to w...