Electric vehicle (EV) appears to be one of the viable solutions for the growing concerns for environmental protection and the fast rate of depletion of world fuel oil supply. EV can become a viable alternative to the internal combustion engine only if they are able to meet certain reliability, safety, performance, and cost criteria. In addition, electrical vehicles have serious disadvantages be...

As discussed in the previous chapter, electrification is the most viable way to achieve clean and efficient transportation that is crucial to the sustainable development of the whole world. In the near future, electric vehicles (EVs) including hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), and pure battery electric vehicles (BEVs) will dominate the clean vehicle mark...

PUMA Mind is a co-funded project aimed at enhancing the understanding of the behavior of fuel cell systems in vehicles taking advantage of the new freedoms in design that electric powertrains provide. Within this project, IDIADA focused on the integration of fuel cell systems in the automotive sector and the resulting fuel cell power demand profiles were used as base line to develop the fuel ce...

Recently electric vehicles are becoming popular as an alternative of conventional fossil fuel vehicles. Conventional Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicle uses fossil fuel which contributing a major part of overall carbon emission in the environment. Carbon and other green house gas emission are responsible for global warming and resulting climate change. It becomes vital to evaluate perform...

This paper describes a power electronic system that, among other possibilities, can be used to charge electric vehicle batteries. A large-signal linear multirate digital controller for the charging current permits the charger to track and deliver a desired current trajectory for a wide range of loads. This controller simultaneously ensures that the charger draws power from the electric utility ...

The paper gives an economic assessment of Plug-In Hybrid cars. It analyses the impact of fuel prices and battery cost on their economic competitiveness and on the optimal electric driving range. To determine the proportion of electric driven kilometers to the overall kilometrage of the PHEV, data on average driving behavior of passenger car drivers in Austria is used. In a first step the total ...

(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...

P ERSONAL transportation offers people freedom, but this choice of freedom creates a conflict with growing environmental concerns and the sustainability of humanity's use of natural resources. Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) improve fuel efficiency by optimizing powertrain operation and recovering kinetic energy during braking, hence reducing liquid fuel consumption in the transportation sector...

A major barrier in consumer adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is ‘range anxiety,’ the concern that the vehicle will run out of power at an inopportune time. Range anxiety is caused by the current relatively low electric-only operational range and sparse public charging station infrastructure. Range anxiety may be significantly mitigated if EV manufacturers and charging station operators work ...