We investigate the impact of road gradient on the electricity consumption of electric vehicles
(EVs) by combining long-term GPS tracking data with digital elevation map (DEM) data for …

The deployment of Electric Vehicles (EVs) needs an optimized and cost-effective
implementation of charging stations. As a decision support tool for network design, we …

Electro-mobility is increasing significantly in the urban public transport and continues to face
important challenges. Electric bus fleets require high performance and extended longevity of …

To reduce fuel consumption in the transportation sector research focuses mainly on the
development of more efficient drive train technologies and alternative drive train designs …

Hybrid vehicle control strategies are algorithms devoted to the energy management. At each
sampling time they choose the powertrain operating point in order to minimize a criterion …

Real-time energy management of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) is a key point for
performing effective fuel economy optimization. Offline methods have been developed for …

Energy, the environment, and global climate have been placed under great pressure
recently by the rapid growth of gasoline-and diesel-powered vehicles. Battery-powered …

For hybrid vehicles, it is difficult to obtain realistic component models and actual interaction
between subsystems without carrying out experiments. INRETS has performed a coupled …

Smart charging is becoming an important and indispensable asset for electric bus fleet to
become economically competitive. This paper proposes an innovative approach for setting …

Certain difficulties arise when attempting to model a clutch in a power train transmission due
to its nonlinear behavior. Two different states have to be taken into account—the first being …