Design of power management control strategy for reducing fuel consumption in a single seated electric hybrid vehicle

Abstract

The intent of this study is the design, modeling, simulation and testing of power management control strategy for increasing fuel efficiency over regulated driving cycles for a single seated post transmission parallel hybrid electric vehicle. A post transmission parallel hybrid power train has been studied, with the electric motive power coming after the transmission, utilizing a belt driven coupling. A control strategy has been developed for the operation of the powertrain, Simulink models of the power train were built to obtain the results, which were validated against experimental data obtained from test carried out on a single seat HEV. The result shows that fuel consumption as well as the exhaust gas emissions of the hybrid vehicles are less than that of the comparable conventional vehicles.