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Experimental Research of Transmissions on Electric Vehicles’ Energy Consumption

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  • Polychronis Spanoudakis

    (School of Production Engineering & Management, Technical University of Crete, 73100 Chania, Greece)

  • Nikolaos C. Tsourveloudis

    (School of Production Engineering & Management, Technical University of Crete, 73100 Chania, Greece)

  • Lefteris Doitsidis

    (Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Applied Sciences, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, 73133 Chania, Greece)

  • Emmanuel S. Karapidakis

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, 71410 Heraklion, Greece)

Abstract

The growth of electric vehicles share of total passenger-vehicle sales is evident and is expected to be a very big market segment by 2030. Range of travel and pricing are the most influencing factors that affect their gain in market share. As so, powertrain development is a key technology factor researched by the automotive industry. To explore, among others, how the energy consumption of zero emission vehicles is affected by different transmissions, we developed, built and installed a variety of them on a custom hydrogen fuel cell powered urban vehicle. In this work we present a comparison of the effect, on the energy consumption of the proposed testbed, of a prototype custom build 2-speed gearbox and a single stage transmission. Results presented show a reduction of the overall energy consumption with the use of the 2-speed gearbox, compared to single stage, as well as the effect of gear change speed, related to speed, in energy consumption. Finally, a correlation of experimental results using a custom build CVT is conducted compared to single stage transmission. A comparison to simulation results found in literature is performed for all the transmissions tested on road.

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  • Polychronis Spanoudakis & Nikolaos C. Tsourveloudis & Lefteris Doitsidis & Emmanuel S. Karapidakis, 2019. "Experimental Research of Transmissions on Electric Vehicles’ Energy Consumption," Energies, MDPI, vol. 12(3), pages 1-15, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:12:y:2019:i:3:p:388-:d:200926
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    1. Francesco Bottiglione & Stefano De Pinto & Giacomo Mantriota & Aldo Sorniotti, 2014. "Energy Consumption of a Battery Electric Vehicle with Infinitely Variable Transmission," Energies, MDPI, vol. 7(12), pages 1-21, December.
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