Modeling and simulation of electric and hybrid vehicles for recreational vehicle

This paper presents a modeling and simulation of three different vehicles topologies (electric vehicle, series hybrid electric vehicle and parallel hybrid electric vehicle) using the ADVISOR (ADvanced VehIcle SimulatOR). An accurate evaluation of the performance of a hybrid electric vehicle, as well as of its consumption and pollution level, requires a dynamic analysis of its behavior. Two kinds of simulation tools for electric and hybrid electric vehicles exist: steady state and dynamic tools. Tools using steady-state models are appropriate for system-level analysis, whereas tools that use dynamic models allow for information about the sublevel components behavior. An accurate evaluation of the vehicle performance requires a dynamic model that includes many components such as its electric motor, its batteries, its generator, and its combustion engine. In a first step, the vehicle components are sized, using a power flow analysis, to meet the requirements of energy and power of a typical “recreational vehicle”. In a second step, simulation results are presented and discussed to evaluate complexity, emission and consumption.