Design and Testing of an Integrated Electric Vehicle Model

Electric vehicles are seen as the cars of the future as they are very efficient, produce less tank-to-wheel emissions, are noiseless, and require less maintenance. To estimate the performances of an electric vehicle, it is very important to have a simulated model of the same. The advantage of Model-Based Design is that large vehicle models can be constructed by integrating each of its subsystems. Different domains are unified and are simulated to evaluate the effectiveness of the model. In this paper, the performances of the vehicle based on acceleration, gradeability, maximum velocity, torque, and power for different drive cycles are estimated with the adoption of integrated design. The proposed model is compared with the BMW i3 vehicle's parameters to evaluate the robustness of the model and to analyze its accuracy with the actual vehicle.