Technical Paper
Modelling and Control of a Fuel Cell + Battery Electric Vehicle for Energy Optimization
2024-06-12
2024-37-0013
The research on the automotive field is focusing in the last years on finding ways for making green mobility available and generating more efficient vehicles. For doing so, the use of an electric motor (EM) seems to be the most suitable solution, because of its high relative efficiency, but also for neglecting the local emissions generated by the Internal combustion engines (ICE). Multiple alternatives have been taken into consideration for supplying the EM with the needed electric energy. Traditional energy storage systems, like Li-Ion batteries, need to be composed by a significant number of cells, for ensuring enough energy storage to reach a working range compatible to the one of traditional ICEs vehicles. For this reason, the paper describes the development of an energetic model to define a hybrid fuel cell – electric vehicle for the performance analysis and the powertrain optimization.