Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Heavy-duty Electric Vehicles presents engineering principles and design approaches for heavy-duty electric vehicles along with real-world operational data from a commercial application of an electric city bus. It provides a detailed methodology for designing the heavy-duty vehicle driveline system - from defining the subsystems required specs based on Vehicle Technical Specification (VTS) and Vehicle Performance Requirement (VPR) to component selection and finally integration and supervisory control system design. This book not only discusses technical aspects of motors, power electronics, batteries and vehicle dynamics, but also how to integrate all these systems to run the vehicle in a real application.
Synopsis
Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicles: From Concept to Reality presents a step-by-step design and development guide for heavy-duty electric vehicles. It also offers practical insights based on the commercial application of an electric city bus.
Heavy-duty electric vehicle design is challenging due to a lack of clear understanding of the government policies, R&D directions and uncertainty around the performance of various subsystems in an electric powertrain. Therefore, this book discusses key technical aspects of motors, power electronics, batteries and vehicle control systems, and outlines the system integration strategies necessary for design and safe operation of electric vehicles in practice.
This comprehensive book serves as a guide to engineers and decision makers involved in electric vehicle development programs and assists them in finding the suitable electric powertrain solution for a given heavy-duty vehicle application.