Study and analysis of series parallel hybrid electric vehicle

Abstract

With growing oil prices and escalating environment worries, cleaner and supportable energy solutions is demanded. Present transportation contributes large amount of energy consumption and emission of pollutants. In this work, hybrid vehicle technology has been analyzed, with Power split configuration having internal combustion engine and battery as the power source. Initially the analysis of SPHEV performance is done with battery of higher amp-hr capacity .In advanced state the converter circuit is implemented to reduce the battery rating. Different cases has been observed with different charging and discharging circuitry of battery. To improve modeling accuracy, MATLAB (Simscape/Simdriveline/Simulink) tool is used for simulation, discovering the possibilities of advanced hybrid powertrain architectures and energy storage system designs. The study forms the foundation of the proposed work. Hybrid electric vehicles are admired because of their ability to achieve related performance to a standard automobile while prominently improving fuel efficiency and tailpipe emissions. SPHEV is combination of the series and parallel Hybrid electric vehicle configuration. Though having complex architecture SPHEV are preferred over simple power trains because of its advances and advantages. The work can be analyzed with different sources like Fuel cell, as the energy source to the vehicle, making the less use of fossil fuel.