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Electric vehicles are spreading across the world as a promising solution for the creation of a clean and sustainable fleet as part of the mobility for the future. Mainly at emerging markets, such as the Brazil, an introductory step for this electrification process can be expected, where the Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV) play an important role as an enabler to this transition. This first electrification phase already contributes to the current mobility environmental challenges and provides a larger adaptation period for the industry and the infrastructure. Further studies are required to explore the battery pack dimensioning processes and its influences on the main characteristics of the powertrain. This work presents a dimensioning optimization process of single-cell battery packs for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) considering the impact of that over the vehicle performance and efficiency characteristics on the ABNT driving cycle.