Design and Assessment of Electric Vehicle Performance Parameters based on Drive Cycle

Abstract

Electric vehicle plays a significant role, in the future transportation across the world. EV has the potential to reduce air pollution and emission of Greenhouse gasses significantly compared to the existing fossil-fuel-based vehicles. Even though substantial progress can be expected in the area of embarked energy storage technologies, charging infrastructure, customer acceptance of Electric Vehicles is still limited due to the problems of Driving range anxiety and long battery charging time. We can solve most of these problems with the infrastructure development ,optimum sizing and design of the vehicle components and extensive study on vehicle dynamics under various real-time driving conditions. This research focuses on the Matlab software based co-simulation of Electric Vehicle system, including the battery pack and motor, to predict the vehicle performance parameters like driving range, efficiency, power requirement, and energy characteristics under different driving scenarios. The vehicle’s acceleration performance, energy consumption, and efficiency are determined by simulation and verified analytically. Using ADVISOR software the fuel economies and tail pipe emission for various vehicle models are determined by simulation and results are compared with Hybrid Electric vehicle models.

Repercussion of effect of different drive cycles on evaluation of electrical consumption for electric four‐wheeler to achieve optimal performance of electric vehicle

“…Primary focus of NEDC drive cycle was petrol and diesel vehicle but now it can be used for EV for calculating EC and range. 26 The total test cycle time is 1180 s with 11 km total distance of cycle and average speed of 33.6 km/h. Figure 5 shows the speed profile of NEDC drive cycle.…”

“…It is constructed of an urban part called ECE, which is repeated four times, and an extra‐urban part, the EUDC. Primary focus of NEDC drive cycle was petrol and diesel vehicle but now it can be used for EV for calculating EC and range 26 . The total test cycle time is 1180 s with 11 km total distance of cycle and average speed of 33.6 km/h.…”