Hybrid vehicle nomenclature and plug-in hybrid vehicle fuel economy
by Jeffrey Wishart, Marc Secanell, Yuliang (Leon) Zhou
International Journal of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles (IJEHV), Vol. 2, No. 3, 2010

Abstract: The purposes of this paper are to improve on the nomenclature of Hybrid Vehicles (HVs), and to present an enhanced methodology to report the Fuel Economy (FE) of emerging Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles (PHVs). New definitions for HVs and PHVs are presented that include some powertrain configurations that were excluded by the previous definitions, such as the parallel micro-hybrid configuration. The methodology presented to calculate the FE for PHVs involves independently reporting fuel and electrical consumption and eliminates the usage of US driving and owner-charging statistics used in previous methods.

Online publication date: Fri, 18-Jun-2010

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