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As more renewables step in, the ongoing change will be drastic for the electrical grid. The energy sector must find new ways to balance energy production and consumption. Electric vehicle (EV) batteries are by far the most cost-efficient form of energy storage since they require no additional investments in hardware. A bidirectional EV charger is a new technology that enables energy to be pushed back to the power grid and auxiliary loads from the battery. The electrical requirements of the EV charger are examined in detail to find an appropriate power electronics converter to meet all the requirements. The CLLC resonant converter is a promising candidate for high efficient, bidirectional... 

Constantly rising fuel prices and environmental consciousness have caused alternative transport solutions to be considered.Recently, batteries and electric vehicle industries have developed to become a reasonable alternative for gasoline powered cars. Plug-In hybrid electric vehicles could be connected to the electrical grid to be recharged. To ease the charging process, one solution could use an on-board charger to charge the electric vehicle. This charger should be able to be connected to a conventional outlet for convenience reasons and moreover, it should be a grid friendly charger in order not to pollute the electrical network. After studying the introduced structures for electric... 

Due to the growing oil price and environmental considerations, tendency to use local and environmentally friendly energy sources has increased.Bidirectional transmission can be one of the key features of the smart grid,so the use of car battery connected to the grid as local energy sources makes sense. This can provide network stability, especially during peak load times. Vehicles connected to grid (V2G) is an electric vehicle or a plug-in hybrid electric vehicles can delivered the electricity to the grid. These systems require either two separate power electronic converters can be used for transmission in either directions or a two-way transfer charger. The aim of this project is to design... 

Over the last few years, several economical and environmental reasons have caused many countries throughout the world to plan to replace conventional gasoline vehicles with different types of electric vehicles, and hence, it is anticipated that using these vehicles will quickly be developed in near future. Widespread use of electric vehicles calls for a comprehensive network of easily accessible charging stations being capable of replenishing their batteries. In this regard, municipal public parking decks, because of their characteristics, can be considered as proper candidates for installing charging equipment. However, as a large number of electric vehicles can be parked at a public... 

As far as reliable supply and cost-effective methods of power delivery to end-users are concerned, new advancements in smart grids and, in particular, smart pricing are of high significance to grid operators. In the recent decade, there has been a considerable raise in penetration of renewable energy resources and also the number of hybrid electric vehicles which can act as a huge mobile storage in the network. Hence, finding a practical and cost-effective method of management of all these new resources and avoiding potential problems associated with them seems to be of high importance. In this study, first, the response of demand to pricing signals has been modeledAfterwards, the response... 

The final target of this research is to design an appropriate intelligent control strategy for energy management purposes in a well designed parallel hybrid electric vehicle. In the first step, the conventional “Samand” vehicle has been simulated using real data for vehicle parameters and power train components, has been simulated. Using experimental results, simulation results are validated. In the second step due to the primarily defined parallel electric assist control strategy (PEACS) for the hybrid electric vehicle and performance requirements, components such as engine, electric machine and battery pack were selected and sized. In the final step a Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) has been... 

Nonstop growth of environmental concerns regarding ordinary vehicles detrimental effects have led to increasing use of Electrical Vehicles which require more researches in different fields of study. The main purpose of this study is solving the problem of Electrical Vehicles' traffic assignment considering recharging time as a function of amount of charge. Existing EVs have limited driving range, and these cars' drivers usually have to spend a considerable amount of time on recharging in order to complete a path. As a result, their corresponding optimum route choice differs from that of gasoline-based vehicles' drivers. In more detail, this study proposes an algorithm to solve the shortest... 

Constantly rising fossil fuel consumption and the resulting air pollutants have caused hybrid electric vehicles to be considered as the most efficient mid-term solution for decreasing problems resulting from environmental pollutions and rising fuel prices. Various types of hybrid electric vehicles and power transmission schemes are studied in this thesis. Electric motors utilized in electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles such as induction motor, brushless permanent magnet motor, DC motor and switched reluctance motors are investigated based on previous studies and researches, and are compared for all basic criteria. For completing the comparison procedure and selecting the most... 

The inevitable emergence of electric vehicles into the transportation industry in the near future can be a potential challenge or an opportunity for the power system. Vehicle-to-Grid can provide services for microgrids and the electricity market. The players of the game for participation of electric vehicles in microgrid or electricity market are vehicle owners, microgrid operators, and the aggregators. The formation and continuation of this interaction requires the interests of all institutions involved in the subject to be considered. Since there has not yet been an established conceptual or executive framework for the utilization of these vehicles in Vehicle-to-Grid idea considering... 

Energy management in vehicles is ann important issue, because it can significantly influence the performance of the vehicles and component sizing., Although the bbatteries have been widely used in electric vehicles (EVs), However the large current impact of battery cycle life is still a difficult problem that remains to be resolved and because of that, Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) areis the way that allows to to achievinge the advantages of both engines.Hybrid cars uses both an electric motor and internal combustion engine (ICE) used together, so, itwhich can benefit from the advantages of both engine types. ImprovImprovement ofing energy management in (HEVs) can providedeliver important... 

Large penetration of electric vehicles and distributed generation (DG) resources in upcoming years will change the future vision of distribution networks from some passive load points into active ones. The imposed load of electric vehicles charging has caused many new challenges in operation and planning studies of distribution network. In contrast, the abilities of electric vehicles in feeding back power into the network (V2G programs) has attracted attention from grid operators and also vehicles owners. So, the problem of managing charging and discharging behaviors of electric vehicles has been introduced as a hot research topic in recent year. This dissertation as the first effort in this... 

Many studies on hybrid vehicles have been done in the past few years. The Full hybrid vehicles need a large number of batteries creating up to 300V to meet the required voltage of electric motor. The size and weight of the batteries cause some problems. This research investigates the mild hybrid vehicle. This vehicle includes a small electric motor and a high power internal combustion engine. In most cases the car’s driving force is created by internal combustion part. A small electric motor, which can operate as engine starter, generator and traction motor, is located between the engine and automatically shifted multi-gear transmission (gearbox). The clutch is used to disconnect the gearbox... 

In the recent years, increasing concerns about the environmental issues necessitatecientists and industrial people to introduce clean and zero emissions vehicles to the global market. Relying on this acute demand,Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) are knownas one potential solution to lessen the negative effects of transportation industry on ecological systems.HEVs combine an Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) with an Electric Motor/Generator (EMG) and an Energy Storage System (ESS) to produce a fuel efficient and low or zero pollutant powertrain. Increasing the number of components in the powertrain requires a sophisticated strategy to control all drive-line components suitably. Surely, the best... 

Limited oil resources, increasing rate of oil consumption, and environmental concerns related to burning fossil fuels promote the use of alternative fuel vehicles. Electric vehicles are common among alternative fuel vehicles which decrease greenhouse gases emission and fossil fuel dependence. To increase electric vehicle market share, some challenges need to be overcome including range anxiety. Limited driving range is one of the main challenges for battery-powered electric vehicles. The distance limit inevitably changes electric vehicle drivers’ travel behavior. Given the scarcity of charging stations, consumers perceive this driving range limit to be a potential worry. Therefore,... 

Wireless power transfer has been found to be a practical replacement for cable power transfer in a wide range of applications. For instance, this technology offers significant solutions for medical and industrial applications as well as electrical home appliances and electric vehicle chargers. All over the world, researchers are investigating and implementing experimental prototypes to simplify power transfer in applications in which the use of cables is impossible, troublesome, or hazardous. There are different issues in each of the mentioned applications which should be solved in order to use wireless power transfer systems more beneficially. These issues include power transfer efficiency,... 

Battery Electric vehicles (BEVs) are turning into a more well known type of transportation because of their energy effectiveness, further sustainability, and the arrangement of government support through motivation programs. However, BEVs have a constrained driving range due to their limited battery capacity. This limited battery capacity leads to a fear of exhausting energy in the middle of route which is referred to as range anxiety. The range anxiety affects BEV users’ travel choices such as route choice. Hence, BEV users should consider their vehicles’ remaining range while trying to minimize their travel times. This concern consequently changes the equilibrium flow on the transportation... 

Gasoline is the major fuel used in transportation sector, even though it's environmental associated concerns and energy security problems receive, and continue to receive, much debate. On the other hand, growth in Iran's population and economy might cause an increase in the amount of cars in the market, consequently, in the transportation sector. The proposed phenomenon will bring a degree of rising in consumption of gasoline together with air pollution, especially in the big cities. Energy policy has acknowledged to be significant step in developing long-term plans across the globe. In this regard, developing policy-based methods and models are of a great importance toward forecasting the... 

Due to pollution and destructive effects on the environment, while consuming a large amount of fossil fuels that can be converted into high value-added products, gasoline cars are gradually replaced by electric cars. Modern electric vehicles are generally designed and manufactured on the platform of gasoline vehicles. In the present study, it is tried to design three models of electric vehicles based on the SAINA vehicle. Initially, for the first model, an electric motor instead of the SAINA gasoline engine is employed to provide the power required for the vehicle. Then, for the second model, two electric motors are used namely one in the rear axle and one in the front. The third model uses... 

Battery thermal management system is the indispensable part of the electric vehicles working with Lithium-ion batteries. Accordingly, Lithium-ion batteries modelling, battery heat generation and thermal management is the main focus of researchers and car manufacturers. While Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has been used quite successfully for battery thermal management, CFD models can be too large and too slow for assembling in battery pack level models or vehicle models. In this research a much smaller reduced order model is developed, which is in the core is based on CFD models. Thus, without losing the accuracy, this model can be implemented in the vehicle model. The developed model... 

In recent years passenger cars have been known as the main source of air pollution in urban areas. Despite all the research and efforts in minimizing the fuel consumption and emissions of internal combustion engines (ICE), this is merely a temporary solution. The permanent solution to overcome these disavantages is the use of electric vehicles (EV). The main downside of using electric vehicles is their short driving range. Multi-speed transmissions can be adopted to overcome this problem. Continuously variable transmissions (CVT) and infinitely variable transmissions (IVT) have been proven to enhance fuel economy in ICE vehicles and a great deal of research is being conducted to maximize...