Plug-in hybrid vehicles

If the battery pack of hybrid vehicles can additionally be charged with electricity from the public electricity grid, the vehicle is called plug-in hybrid. Batteries of plug-in hybrids have to be larger than those of a conventional hybrid vehicle. For short distance trips, plug-in hybrid vehicles can be operated in the electricity-only mode. Plug-in hybrids are not explicitly considered here, but addressed in more detail in Section 7.9. 

The American automobile industry hopes to bring to the market in 2010 a "plug-in" hybrid vehicle that is able to drive many more miles to the gallon (400) than an economy-car (25). Assume the ICE to have an exergetic well (oil) to wheel efficiency of 14% and the electric motor 20% (from oil to electricity). See Chapter 18. How much is the reduction in C02 emission for the hybrid vehicle with respect to the gasoline driven vehicle ... 

Kintner-Meyer, M., K. Schneider and R. Pratt (2007) Impacts assessment of plug-in hybrid vehicles on electric utilities and regional US power grids. Part 1 technical analysis , available at http //www.pnl.gov/energy/eed/etd/pdfs/phev feasibility analysis combined.pdf (accessed March 2008). 

A.F. Burke, M. Miller, Performance Characteristics of Lithium-ion Batteries of Various Chemistries for Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles, E -24, Stavanger, Norway, May 2009 (paper on the CD of the meeting). 

TIAX LLC, Cost /Assessment for Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles (SOW-4656), Report to US DOE Office of Transportation Technology, October 2007. 

Contrary to hybrid vehicles, a full battery electric vehicle relies on the battery for all motive force and is not assisted by an internal combustion engine. But it otherwise shares many of the characteristics of the plug-in hybrid vehicle battery—the need to accept regenerative braking as a charging mechanism, while also charging from a stationary power line. 

BYD is a Chinese manufacturer established in 1995. This company makes 65% of the world s nickel-cadmium batteries and 30% of the world s lithium-ion mobile phone batteries. Beside battery production for mobile phones and notebooks, it develops batteries for EVs. It has released the world s first plug-in hybrid vehicle by the end of 2008. Parameters of selected BYD s battery packs are shown in Table 23.1. 

Emissions from the transportation sector could be reduced by 30 percent by 2050. Major R D areas related to improving the emission intensity of transportation focus on hybrid, electric, and plug-in hybrid vehicles. 

Figure 1.5. Profile of current entering into the battery and evolution of its SOC for a battery in a plug-in hybrid vehicle...

Plug-in hybrid vehicles Wh/kg, W/kg, no maintenance NiMH. Lithium-ion... 

Ah Emadi (hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles). Director, Electric Power and Power Electronics Center and Grainger Laboratories, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago, IE... 

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