Study on the design method of time-variant driving cycles for EV based on Markov Process

Vehicle driving cycles have great effect on the energy consumption. Due to the battery capability of EV and in order to reduce the energy consumption of EV, the study of planning the most energy-saving driving route for EV before its trip will be a prospective and guiding work. It is the obtaining time-variant driving cycles that be the basis of this work. The Markov Process based on stochastic process and probability theory is a new method, which is used to design the time-variant driving cycles in this paper. It is conclude from the design results that the driving cycles are different from each other during both free flow time and peak time and the results is more closed to the real driving cycles.