ABSTRACT
Electric vehicles (EVs), including battery electric vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), plug-in HEVs (PHEVs), fuel-cell electric vehicles, are becoming more commonplace in the transportation sector in recent times. HEVs employ both an internal combustion engine and an electrical power train to power the vehicle. This chapter discusses the combination of these two that can come in different forms. A detailed description of power electronics converters is provided. Close-coupled inductor and loosely coupled inductor integrated interleaved converters have been proposed. In Richardson et al. showed that a controlled charging rate can make high EV penetration possible in the current residential power network with only a few upgrades in the infrastructure. In an attempt to create an energy management system for a still-not-commercialized PHEV employing a microturbine, Geng et al. used an equivalent consumption minimization strategy in to estimate the optimum driving cost. Systems integration: Enabling wide-scale adoption of mobility solutions through ubiquitous availability and sharing of interoperable transport data.
