Achieving Efficient Designs for Energy and Power Systems of Electric Vehicles

Abstract

With the advent of the electric car as a new transport model for the twenty-first century, this paper attempts to give an analysis of this technology and justify the need for efficient energetic designs for this kind of vehicles. It is necessary to reach the best compromise of performance with the least waste energy possible. This is the reason why private demand studies based on the type of vehicle and where the vehicle is going to be used are indespensable. In order to be aware of the magnitude of the obtained results, also a comparison of benefits over a conventional diesel drive vehicle, sized under the same constraints, is made. The analysis has been done through ADVISOR (Advanced Vehicle Simulator), a software which vehicles are modelled conceptually in the environment of Matlab / Simulink. This study is a step towards the implementation of a smart management energy system in electric logistic vehicles.