Micromobility and smart cities: efficiency, energy consumption and range analysis for electric vehicles

Climate change and smart cities are topics where a large number of resources are being invested to avoid it and advance its development respectively. This paper presents a calculation procedure of the car efficiency, energy consumption and range whose efficiency has already been tested for hybrid ve...

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Autores: Alcázar García, Désirée|||0000-0002-9656-8295, Romeral Martínez, José Luis|||0000-0001-8112-8038
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/381206
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/381206
https://dx.doi.org/10.1051/rees/2021052
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:City planning
Electric vehicles
Sustainable development
Consumption
Efficiency
Electric vehicle
Energy
Micromobility
Quadricycle
Range
Smart city
Vehicle category
Urbanisme
Vehicles elèctrics
Desenvolupament sostenible
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Desenvolupament humà i sostenible
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Sumario:Climate change and smart cities are topics where a large number of resources are being invested to avoid it and advance its development respectively. This paper presents a calculation procedure of the car efficiency, energy consumption and range whose efficiency has already been tested for hybrid vehicles (including plug-in) and fuel cell vehicles, as well as pure electric vehicles of category M1. This method has been adapted for quadricycles of category L6e and L7e in order to be able to use it to accelerate the design of this type of vehicles and contribute to its introduction in Smart Cities. The reliability of the system has been verified with commercially available vehicles and prototypes taking into account their technical specifications: electric motor (e.g., permanent magnet motor), technology of energy storage system (e.g., lithium-ion battery), weight and geometry of the car for all types of drive cycles. According to the literature review, there is currently no standardized operating system or hardware abstraction layer for such methodology/application in the automotive sector. This flexible method can be easily extended for different technologies of batteries and electric motors, different standard or customized drive cycles, etc. Besides, it has high reliability for vehicles of category L since in no case does the error reach 5 % and the average value is 2.5 % when real data from vehicle manufacturers and outcomes are compared. Thus, results show the consistency of the system.