Future personal transportation should provide enhanced freedom, sustainable mobility, and sustainable economic growth and prosperity for society. Both conventional cars and hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) are not sustainable. Unfortunately, the electric vehicle (EV) market collapsed in the late 1990s. The reasons were mixed, depending on how one looks at it, but the following were the main contributors to the collapse of EVs in the 1990s: limitations of EVs, cheap gasoline, consumers, car companies, gas companies, battery technology and so on. HEVs and plug‐in HEVs (PHEVs) can have either the series‐parallel configuration or a more complex configuration which usually contains more than one electric machine. This chapter summarizes the interdisciplinary nature of HEV systems. HEVs can overcome some of the disadvantages of battery‐powered pure EVs and gasoline‐powered conventional vehicles. Without the government support, the HEV and PHEV may take a longer time to succeed in the marketplace due to their high cost and other limitations.
Introduction
Hybrid Electric Vehicles ; 1-29
2017-10-26
29 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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