Title :
Design of an innovative 2-by-2 hybrid electric vehicle
Author :
He, Xiaolai ; Mendez, Mario ; Sami, Oludare ; Maxwell, Tim ; Parten, Micheal
Author_Institution :
Adv. Vehicle Eng. Lab., Texas Tech. Univ., Lubbock, TX, USA
Abstract :
An innovative vehicle powertrain architecture is proposed to decrease overall well-to-wheels emissions and increase fuel economy. The vehicle provides 4-wheel drive through the use of an electric motor driving the rear wheels in conjunction with an IC engine driving the front wheels. The engine is powered by hydrogen and E85 mixture fuels and a fuel cell is used to charge the battery pack. To verify the design, vehicle models and control strategy were developed in Matlab/Simulink environment. Simulation results prove that this design can increase fuel efficiency by 50%.
Keywords :
CAD; design engineering; hybrid electric vehicles; mathematics computing; 2-by-2 hybrid electric vehicle; 4-wheel drive; E85 mixture fuel; IC engine; Matlab-Simulink; battery pack charging; control strategy; electric motor; front wheel; fuel cell; fuel economy; hydrogen fuel; powertrain architecture; rear wheel; well-to-wheels emission; Batteries; Electric motors; Engines; Fuel cells; Fuel economy; Hybrid electric vehicles; Hydrogen; Mechanical power transmission; Vehicle driving; Wheels;
Conference_Titel :
Vehicle Power and Propulsion, 2005 IEEE Conference
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9280-9
DOI :
10.1109/VPPC.2005.1554528
