scholarly journals Adaptive Driving Cycles of EVs for Reducing Energy Consumption

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 2592
Author(s):  
Iwona Komorska ◽  
Andrzej Puchalski ◽  
Andrzej Niewczas ◽  
Marcin Ślęzak ◽  
Tomasz Szczepański
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Electric Vehicle ◽  
Traffic Engineering ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
Gaussian Process Regression ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Driving Cycle ◽  
Virtual Design ◽  
Driving Cycles ◽  
Drive Systems

A driving cycle is a time series of a vehicle’s speed, reflecting its movement in real road conditions. In addition to certification and comparative research, driving cycles are used in the virtual design of drive systems and embedded control algorithms, traffic management and intelligent road transport (traffic engineering). This study aimed to develop an adaptive driving cycle for a known route to optimize the energy consumption of an electric vehicle and improve the driving range. A novel distance-based adaptive driving cycle method was developed. The proposed algorithm uses the segmentation and iterative synthesis procedures of Markov chains. Energy consumption during driving is monitored on an ongoing basis using Gaussian process regression, and speed and acceleration are corrected adaptively to maintain the planned energy consumption. This paper presents the results of studies of simulated driving cycles and the performance of the algorithm when applied to the real recorded driving cycles of an electric vehicle.

Developing an electric vehicle urban driving cycle to study differences in energy consumption

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (14) ◽  
pp. 13839-13853 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuan Zhao ◽  
Jian Ma ◽  
Shu Wang ◽  
Yiming Ye ◽  
Yan Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Electric Vehicle ◽  
Driving Cycle

scholarly journals Human factor and traffic safety

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 49-52
Author(s):  
Ewa Brożyna
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Traffic Engineering ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Road User ◽  
Road Design

This article deals with issues in the field of traffic engineering. According to its assumptions, traffic is a system consisting of three inseparable elements which are man, vehicle and road. In this article, the author focuses on the relationship between two of these elements: human as a road user and a path that should be a subordinate of the user’s capabilities and convenience. The first part of the article is an introduction to the topic of the article. There are presented the data on the amount of road traffic accidents caused by human factors and the categories of errors committed by drivers. In the further part there were analyzed the biological factors which have influence on driver’s actions such as sight, attention and reaction time with particular emphasis on the imperfections of those factors which should be taken into account when designing roads and organizing traffic because it lets to provide a higher level of road safety. The purpose of this article is to develop practical conclusions for road design and traffic management that will help to better adjust the road transport infrastructure to the capabilities and natural limitations of the human person. These conclusions are included in the summary.

scholarly journals Annual Variation in Energy Consumption of an Electric Vehicle Used for Commuting

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (18) ◽  
pp. 4639 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anatole Desreveaux ◽  
Alain Bouscayrol ◽  
Elodie Castex ◽  
Rochdi Trigui ◽  
Eric Hittinger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Electric Vehicle ◽  
Experimental Measurement ◽  
Air Conditioning ◽  
Annual Variation ◽  
Accurate Determination ◽  
Driving Cycle ◽  
Simulation Tool ◽  
Real Vehicle

The energy consumption of an electric vehicle is primarily due to the traction subsystem and the comfort subsystem. For a regular trip, the traction energy can be relatively constant but the comfort energy has variation depending on seasonal temperatures. In order to plan the annual charging operation of an eco-campus, a simulation tool is developed for an accurate determination of the consumption of an electric vehicle throughout year. The developed model has been validated by comparison with experimental measurement of a real vehicle on a real driving cycle. Different commuting trips are analyzed over a complete year. For the considered city in France (Lille), the comfort energy consumption has an overconsumption up to 33% in winter due to heating, and only 15% in summer due to air conditioning. The urban commuting driving cycle is more affected by the comfort subsystem than extra-urban trips.

scholarly journals Review on Construction Procedures of Driving Cycles

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-285
Author(s):  
Levente Czégé ◽  
Attila Vámosi ◽  
Imre Kocsis
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Dynamic Simulation ◽  
Statistical Evaluation ◽  
Driving Cycle ◽  
Driving Cycles ◽  
Construction Techniques ◽  
The Future ◽  
Evaluation Of Data

The goal of this paper is to give an overview of the literature of construction techniques of driving cycles. Our motivation for the overview is the future goal of constructing our own driving cycles for various types of vehicles and routes. This activity is part of a larger project focusing on determination of fuel and energy consumption by dynamic simulation of vehicles. Accordingly, the papers dealing with sample route determination, data collection and processing, driving cycle construction procedures, statistical evaluation of data are in our focus.

scholarly journals Torque Optimal Allocation Strategy of All-Wheel Drive Electric Vehicle Based on Difference of Efficiency Characteristics between Axis Motors

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 1122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaogang Wu ◽  
Dianyu Zheng ◽  
Tianze Wang ◽  
Jiuyu Du
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Power System ◽  
Electric Vehicle ◽  
Driving Cycle ◽  
Drive Power ◽  
Distribution Method ◽  
Torque Distribution ◽  
Wheel Drive ◽  
Average Distribution ◽  
The Difference

All-wheel drive is an important technical direction for the future development of pure electric vehicles. The difference in the efficiency distribution of the shaft motor caused by the optimal load matching and motor manufacturing process, the traditional torque average distribution strategy is not applicable to the torque distribution of the all-wheel drive power system. Aiming at the above problems, this paper takes the energy efficiency of power system as the optimization goal, proposes a dynamic allocation method to realize the torque distribution of electric vehicle all-wheel drive power system, and analyzes and verifies the adaptability of this optimization algorithm in different urban passenger vehicle working cycles. The simulation results show that, compared with the torque average distribution method, the proposed method can effectively solve the problem that the difference of the efficiency distribution of the two shaft motors in the power system affects the energy consumption of the power system. The energy consumption rate of the proposed method is reduced by 5.96% and 5.69%, respectively, compared with the average distribution method under the China urban passenger driving cycle and the Harbin urban passenger driving cycle.

scholarly journals Research into the Impacts of Driving Cycles and Load Weight on the Operation of a Light Commercial Electric Vehicle

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 13872
Author(s):  
Tomáš Settey ◽  
Jozef Gnap ◽  
František Synák ◽  
Tomáš Skrúcaný ◽  
Marek Dočkalik
Keyword(s):  
Electric Vehicle ◽  
Environmentally Friendly ◽  
Driving Cycle ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Driving Cycles ◽  
Sustainable Logistics ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Load Weight

The European Parliament has adopted Directive 2019/1161 on the promotion of environmentally friendly and energy-efficient road transport vehicles, which also defines the obligations and forms of support for the procurement of environmentally friendly vehicles in urban logistics. The increase in the number of shipments delivered within e-commerce, which is also the result of the COVID-19 pandemic, requires a transition to a sustainable logistics system. New research questions are being raised in the preparation of new projects for the introduction of small electric commercial vehicles in particular. One of the main research questions about deployment itself is whether light commercial electric vehicles are able to fully replace conventionally powered vehicles. What operating conditions are optimal for the operation of them? How does load weight affect the energy efficiency of operating a light commercial electric vehicle? The authors decided to carry out research into the impacts of weight and the nature of a driving cycle under laboratory conditions to eliminate all external factors that could distort individual measurements and their results. In order to simulate driving cycles, an urban driving cycle was designed on the basis of the course of speed, acceleration, deceleration and slope conditions of roads in the selected regional city of Žilina (Slovakia). In the case of the operation of an electrically powered light commercial vehicle, the impact of load weight on the range of the vehicle is low, and is below the level of the theoretical maximum range of the vehicle in urban logistics applications. The operation of electrically powered vehicles in hilly terrains with relatively longer gradients and steeper slopes increases electricity consumption and, thereby, reduces their range.

Effect of Geared Transmissions on Electric Vehicle Drivetrains

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qinglian Ren ◽  
David A. Crolla ◽  
Adrian Morris
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Electric Vehicle ◽  
Transmission System ◽  
Improve Performance ◽  
Performance Improvements ◽  
Driving Cycles ◽  
Direct Benefits ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Potential Benefits

The paper describes some simple modelling to investigate whether there are potential benefits to incorporating a geared transmission in electric vehicle driveline. The overall conclusion is that considerable benefits in energy consumption are available if a continuously variable gearbox system is incorporated; performance improvements of 6 to 19.2% are predicted over a range of European, USA and Japanese driving cycles. Furthermore, the use of a much simpler, two speed gearbox an improve performance significantly — by for example 9.2% over the NEDC cycle — although similar improvements are not predicted over other driving cycles. Overall, the results suggest not only that direct benefits in terms of energy reductions are obtainable, but also that significant reductions in motor and driveline sizing may be an alternative approach to exploiting the introduction of a transmission system.

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