Abstract:
Series Hybrid vehicles are now a days common in most of the developed
countries. The major idea behind using the Hybrid vehicles and not the conventional
internal combustion engine vehicles is that we have very less efficiency in these cars.
On the other hand, the electric vehicles that were used only electric drive systems had
better efficiency but the distance they could cover was small. Therefore a Hybrid
vehicle was introduced so that we could gain the benefits of both electric and ICE
vehicles.
The project aims at design and implementation of series Hybrid Vehicle. This
project involves extensive modeling and simulation of series hybrid vehicle parts like
Battery Packs, chargers, on-board generator, vehicle dynamics, motors and other drive
line components in various software tools. A complete model of series Hybrid Vehicle
has also been made and tested on MATLAB Simulink® and the circuits used in this
project were simulated in Proteus/Spice®. The project is divided into three major parts
including Vehicle Control Unit, Variable Frequency Drives and Battery charging and
management unit. By the end of this project we shall be able to deliver a mock type
prototype of Series Hybrid Vehicle.
