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ELECTRICAL VEHICLES
1. Electric Motors as Automotive Prime Movers
P M V Subbarao
Professor
Mechanical Engineering Department
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4. Vehicle speed and acceleration/deceleration in an FTP
urban drive cycle
5. Energy Loss : Urban Driving : 3000 CC Engine Vehicle
Engine Loss
76%
Engine
Standby
8%
Driveline
Losses
3%
Driveline
Aero
3%
Rolling
4%
Braking
6%
Fuel Tank
100%
16% 13%
POWERTRAIN VEHICLE-Related
6. Energy Loss : Highway Driving : 300 CC Engine Vehicle
Engine Loss
77%
Engine
Standby
0%
Driveline
Losses
4%
Driveline
Aero
10%
Rolling
7%
Braking
2%
Fuel Tank:
100%
23% 19%
POWERTRAIN
VEHICLE-Related
7. Low Irreversibility Prime Movers
Fuel
Transmission
Engine
Battery
Transmission
Motor/
Generator
Battery Electric
Combustion
Engines
8. Energy Loss : City Driving – Electric Vehicle
Motor Loss
10%
Motor
Driveline
Losses
14%
Driveline
Aero
29%
Rolling
35%
Braking
11%
Batteries
100%
90% 76%
POWERTRAIN VEHICLE-Related
11. Resistance & Power Requirement at Wheels : City
Driving
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12. Characteristics of A Typical variable-speed electric motor
The range of the constant power operation
depends primarily on the particular motor
type and its control strategy.
13. Speed Ratio of Typical variable-speed electric motor
• At the low-speed region the
motor has a constant torque.
• The maximum speed at
which a motor generates a
constant (maximum) torque
is known as base speed.
• In the high-speed region the
motor has a constant
(maximum) power.
• The highest speed at which
the motor generates constant
maximum power is known
as maximum speed.
This characteristic is usually
represented by a speed ratio x,
defined as the ratio of its maximum
speed to its base speed.
14. Speed ratio & Speed–torque profile of a 60 kW electric
motor
18. Electric Vehicles for the 21st Century
Tesla Motors is a Silicon Valley automobile startup company, which
unveiled the 185 kW Tesla Roadster on July 20, 2006.
As of March 2008, Tesla has begun regular production of the Roadster.
Peak torque begins at 0 rpm and stays powerful at 13,000 rpm.
This makes the Tesla Roadster six times as efficient as the best sports
cars while producing one-tenth of the pollution with a range of 220
miles.
19. The eBox is the purest and greatest example of building your own
electric vehicle using an existing vehicle platform.
This urban utility vehicle, shown in Figure, has a range of 120–
150 miles, 0–60 mph in 7.5 seconds with a top speed of 95 mph.
It has a 30-minute charge for 20–50 miles and a full charge in two
hours.
It has regenerative braking, lithium-ion batteries, and all the bells
and whistles of a regular internal combustion engine vehicle.
eBox
25. Battery Technologies
• The viable EV batteries consist of
• the lead-acid battery,
• nickel based batteries such as nickel/iron, nickel/cadmium, and
nickel–metal hydride batteries, and
• lithium-based batteries such as lithium polymer and lithium-
ion batteries.
• The energy or power losses during battery discharging and
charging appear in the form of voltage loss.
• Thus, the efficiency of the battery during discharging and
charging can be defined at any operating point as the ratio of
the cell operating voltage to the thermodynamic voltage.
26. Energy Efficiency of A battery
The efficiency of the battery during
discharging:
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The efficiency of the battery during
charging:
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28. Energy and Power Needs
• Rate is a problem.
• Example: refill a gas tank with 15 gal in 5 min.
• The energy rate is roughly that of 20 major campus buildings!
• It is costly and problematic to fill batteries quickly.