A Study on Parameter Design of Powertrain for Extended-Range Electric Vehicle

The motivation for this development is to establish a new method of powertrain structural analysis and parameters matching of extended-range electric vehicle. For the main drawback of pure electric vehicle, which driving distance is short, the new powertrain will achieve efficient operation of range extender and extend the driving range effectually. The innovative technique is based on a co-simulation platform of AVL-Cruise and Simulink. A thermostat energy management strategy is adopted to verify the parameters of powertrain. Finally, the simulation results demonstrate that the system design and parameters matching of the whole vehicle powertrain are reasonable.