Author: Apollin N Chaazou

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Published: 2020-03-29

Total Pages: 149

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Electric vehicles have become very popular in the past few years and are now the exciting and future trend in the automotive industry. The manufacturing production strategy of cars across the world is changing with several vehicles manufacturers preparing to move away from producing vehicles propelled only by an internal combustion engine (ICE) and committing only to manufacture cars with electrified powertrains.So much information about electric cars can be found on the internet; however, much of it, is misleading, false and not supported by reliable sources. This book provides a platform with essential information to help people understand electric vehicle technologies easily. This book has been written to provide reliable data that will answer many questions on electric vehicles. The main objective behind putting the hard work to write this book is to improve the understanding of people around the world on the fast evolution of electric vehicles technologies and provide insight on the motivation behind it, its benefits and disadvantages. Furthermore, this book can help raise awareness on some of the considerations of automotive electrification concerning technical and practical aspects. This book is therefore recommended for you if you fall into any of the below-listed categories:You are keen to learn and better your understanding of electric vehicles.You own an electric vehicle and would like to know more about what to do to prolong its life.You are a potential buyer of an electric vehicle and would like to enrich or complement your knowledge with all the essential information on their technology.You are a potential stakeholder or investor in electric vehicles and would like to further your overall knowledge at many levels of electric vehicles (EVs) design, including pros and cons.You may want to know some critical details that electric vehicles manufacturers are not always willing to release on batteries.It is recommended that you familiarise yourself with the acronyms and terminologies used, and take notes if necessary while reading to help assimilate the contents quickly. Every effort has been made to ensure that the contents of this book were up to date at the time of writing (2019). However, it is encouraged that you carry out your research on some details that may have slightly changed since then given the rapid evolution of everything related to vehicles electrification. This book series consists of ten chapters covering automotive electrification on all aspects with detailed information on different powertrain architectures. Its publication will be done by chapter.In Chapter 1, the notion of automotive electrification is introduced, with consideration on the motivation behind it, the different types of electric vehicles with the associated technologies and the advantages and disadvantages. There is also a consideration for charging methods and regenerative braking system.Chapter 2 introduces energy storage and high voltage systems for hybrid and electric vehicle applications. The topic is developed and considered with in-depth analysis of the critical components of an energy storage system (ESS). The basic understanding of batteries for electric vehicles is introduced with detailed consideration of all characteristics. Chapter 3 introduces the various types of electric machines used on electric vehicles. It also considers the design of a permanent magnet motor for a premium plug-in electric vehicle, using two permanent magnet electric motors. In Chapter 4, the outline design for a range extender electric vehicle (REEV) for the UK market is considered with details on powertrain and component-level requirements, supervisory control, driving modes, vehicle integration and all other aspects.