Technical Paper
The Use of Vehicle Navigation Information and Prediction of Journey Characteristics for the Optimal Control of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles
2011-04-12
2011-01-1025
With the current concerns over vehicle emissions, oil availability and pricing there is a lot of interest in environmentally friendly vehicles such as electric and hybrid electric as ways of reducing costs and CO₂ emissions. In the case of a pure electric vehicle it is important to optimize the electric vehicle range so that it can travel as far as possible and ultimately does not leave the user of the vehicle stranded without enough charge in the battery to complete the journey. For hybrid electric vehicles there is a lot of scope to optimize its control so that the optimal use of electricity and internal combustion engine is maintained, for example, maximization of the use of plug-in charging opportunities. For both vehicle types, optimal battery management is important.
