Performance study of electric vehicles in Macau

Author

Ching, T.W. ; Xu, Tao

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electromech. Eng., Univ. of Macau, Macau, China

fYear

2014

fDate

4-7 May 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Being a city with small geographical size (29.9 sq.km) limiting the travel range of vehicles, Macau has great potential for EV implementation. Researchers and engineers have concentrated on the improvement of EV performance through the advances in batteries, motors, converters, controllers and relevant auxiliaries, with enormous successes. Now, it comes to the stage of commercialization! Before adapting EVs, it is important to understand their performances in Macau. This paper aims to analyze the performance of EVs and compared with internal combustion engine and hybrid vehicles. Viability of EVs will be simulated using both Federal Urban Driving Schedule and Macau Driving Cycle.

Keywords

electric vehicles; internal combustion engines; EV performance; Macau driving cycle; electric vehicles; federal urban driving schedule; hybrid vehicles; internal combustion engine; Batteries; Cities and towns; Engines; Hybrid electric vehicles; Petroleum; electric vehicles; performance evaluation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2014 IEEE 27th Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Toronto, ON

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3099-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2014.6900957

Filename

6900957