Title: Hybrid vehicle nomenclature and plug-in hybrid vehicle fuel economy

Authors: Jeffrey Wishart, Marc Secanell, Yuliang (Leon) Zhou

Addresses: Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation (eTec), Phoenix, AZ, USA. ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

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.

Keywords: hybrid vehicle nomenclature; plug-in hybrid vehicles; PHV; fuel economy; vehicle modelling; vehicle simulation; powertrain configurations; parallel micro-hybrid powertrains; fuel consumption; electrical consumption.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEHV.2010.033696

International Journal of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles, 2010 Vol.2 No.3, pp.177 - 201

Published online: 18 Jun 2010 *

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