Influence of hybridisation on eco-driving habits using realistic driving cycles

This study covers three main aspects. First, it presents a way to create driving cycles using only driver behaviour (acceleration, deceleration and maximum speed) and route data as input parameters. Second, a power-based approach to describe different vehicle architectures from internal combustion engine vehicle, over stop and start to series and parallel hybrid solutions is presented and respective component modelling approaches are introduced. Finally, the fuel consumption on a given cycle in function of eco-driving parameters is evaluated. It can be seen that hybrid solutions show minimum fuel consumption of about 3 L/100 km, whereas eco-driving habits do change slightly when applied to hybrid architectures because of new technologies such as braking energy recovery.