Author : Aaron Brooker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (56 download)
Book Synopsis Technology Improvement Pathways to Cost-Effective Vehicle Electrification by : Aaron Brooker
Download or read book Technology Improvement Pathways to Cost-Effective Vehicle Electrification written by Aaron Brooker and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper evaluates several approaches aimed at making plug-in electric vehicles (EV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) cost-effective including opportunity charging, replacing the battery over the vehicle life, improving battery life, reducing battery cost, and providing electric power directly to the vehicle during a portion of its travel. Many combinations of PHEV electric range and battery power are included. For each case, the model accounts for battery cycle life and the national distribution of driving distances to size the battery optimally. Using the current estimates of battery life and cost, only the dynamically plugged-in pathway was cost-effective to the consumer. Significant improvements in battery life and battery cost also made PHEVs more cost-effective than today's hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and conventional internal combustion engine vehicles (CVs).