Modern Electric, Hybrid Electric, and Fuel Cell Vehicles, Third Edition [Book News]

This book explains the dynamic modeling, simulation, and optimization needed for hybrid electric vehicles. It presents a comprehensive overview of technologies and how they are designed, integrated, and controlled. The book begins with environmental issues and transportation history, before continuing to fundamentals of vehicle propulsion and braking, theoretical bases of internal combustion engines, and explanations about vehicle transmission. Next, the authors explain in a wellstructured, clear, and concise manner, information about electric vehicles (EVs), hybrid EVs (HEVs), fuel cell vehicles (FCVs), and propulsion electric motors together with their controllers. The authors analyze design principles of series, parallel, series–parallel, and soft hybrid electric drive trains, and they explain design and control principles for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, with examples showing simulation results using the overall drive train system, not just the individual components. A good grasp of such principles is essential for understanding the modeling before conducting research on advanced control methods for switching power converters. Storage (batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells) and regenerative braking, together with off-road vehicles and their requirements, are expansively analyzed and discussed in this third edition. The book’s concluding chapters cover optimization of full-size engine HEVs and power-trains and include a guide for a multiobjective optimization toolbox. The authors are known around the world as specialists in power electronics; motor drives; hybrid vehicles and their control systems; architecture, modeling, and design of electric and hybrid electric drive trains; energy management and power-train control; mechatronic systems; and sustainable energy engineering.