These days, the trend towards developing electric vehicles technologies, aiming to enlarge the scale of electric vehicles use, is growing rapidly. The catalyst that makes the engineers and researchers motivated to work on this trend is the great concern about the environment, particularly noise and exhaust emissions, in addition to the continuous progress in batteries and fuel cells manufacturing and technology. It is, therefore, essential to understand the principles behind the design of electric vehicles as well as the relevant technological and environmental issues.

Chapter Contents:

• 12.1 Introduction
• 12.2 PEV technologies
• 12.2.1 Operation modes
• 12.2.2 PEV design features
• 12.3 Batteries
• 12.4 Electric motors
• 12.4.1 Brushed DC motors
• 12.4.2 Dynamic and regenerative braking in DC motors
• 12.4.3 Brushless DC motors
• 12.4.3.1 Operational theory
• 12.4.3.2 Switching process
• 12.4.3.3 Equivalent circuit and general equations
• 12.4.4 SR motors
• 12.5 Electric vehicles performance
• 12.6 Battery charging infrastructure
• 12.6.1 Charging stations
• 12.6.2 Chargers
• 12.6.2.1 Level 1 and Level 2 chargers
• 12.6.2.2 Level 3 chargers
• 12.6.3 Charging times
• References

Inspec keywords: energy storage; battery powered vehicles; fuel cell vehicles

Other keywords: energy storage system application; electric vehicles technologies

Subjects: General transportation (energy utilisation); Energy storage; Transportation; Electrochemical conversion and storage