The priority of the automotive industry is to reduce the energy consumption and the emissions of the future passenger cars and to deliver an efficient mobility service for the customers. The improvement of the efficiency of vehicle energy systems promotes an active search to find innovative solutions during the design process. Engineers can use computer-aided processes to find automatically the best design solutions. This kind of approach named “multi-objective optimization” is based on genetic algorithms. The idea is to obtain simultaneously a population of possible design solutions corresponding to the most efficient energy system definition for a vehicle. These solutions will be optimal from technical, economic and environmental point of view. The “genetic intelligence” is tested for the holistic design of the environomic vehicle powertrain solutions. The environomic methodology for design is applied on D-class hybrid electric vehicles, in order to explore the techno-economic and environmental trade-off for different hybridization level of the vehicles powertrains. For powertrain efficiencies between 0.25 and 0.35 the electrification of the powertrain reduces the global CO2 emissions. Hybrid electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles are reaching these levels. The break point of the electrification effect on the GWP occurs on 0.35 % of powertrain efficiency.For battery capacity value higher than 13 kWh the global reduction of the CO2 emissions is not obvious. The method gives also an overview of the evolution of environmental categories indicators as a function of the cost of the vehicles. A direct relation links the economic and the environmental performances of the solutions.


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    Title :

    Optimal designs for efficient mobility service for hybrid electric vehicles



    Publication date :

    2019-06-20


    Remarks:

    doi:10.5278/ijsepm.2473
    International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management; Vol. 22 (2019) ; 2246-2929



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    DDC:    629 / 670



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