Design Approaches and Performance Analysis of Electric Vehicle using MATLAB/Simulink

The advancement in technology increases the challenge for the EV manufacturers to increases the range and reliability. For designing, testing and simulation of EVs, the virtual platform plays an efficient role over real designing and testing. This paper presents the design and simulation approaches of Electric Vehicle (EV) for evaluating virtual performance of the vehicle with the given drive cycle. For efficient design, it should be simulated by using a suitable simulator. There are many simulators like MATLAB/SIMULINK, Proteus, GT-Suite and ANSYS SIMPLORER available for the design and simulation of EVs. From most of the available simulators, MATLAB/SIMULINK is mostly used in many industries and by the researchers for design, simulation and performance evaluation of the EVs. In this article, a detailed analysis of the design and simulation are discussed step-by-step approach. The step-by-step approaches will be very much helpful to the designer and researcher to analyze the characteristic of EV under different operating conditions.