Energy Effectiveness of Advanced Vehicle for Urban Transportation

Advanced vehicles are an alternative solution to reduce environmental pollution due to the use of fossil fuels. It can be pure electric vehicles or hybrid vehicles. The Hybrid vehicles combine internal combustion engines and electric motors to move. The use of resources on hybrid vehicles can be either series or parallel. A series hybrid model uses an electric motor as a driving force and combustion engine as a generator drive when a parallel hybrid vehicles use both resources as drivers simultaneously. Electrical energy can be obtained from renewable energy or waste utilization. This paper discuss the effectiveness of the use of advanced vehicles to reduce the use of fossil fuels. In this study compared some types of advanced vehicles with travel routes in Surakarta as represent urban area in Indonesia. The test is done using vehicle modeling with MATLAB software simulation. The research was done by using drive cycle data from previous research. The shows hybrid vehicle series need more fuel than parallel type. The size of the combustion engine in the vehicle series is very influential on the performance of the vehicle. With the increasing use of advanced vehicles in urban areas, the use of non-renewable fuels can be suppressed and the impact on the environment can be reduced.