Ehv 01 - 5
Ehv 01 - 5
VEHICLE - U19EET72
UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO EV
History of hybrid and electric vehicles - social and environmental
importance - impact of modern drive - trains on energy supplies -
Fundamentals of vehicle propulsion and Braking: Dynamic Equation -
Power train tractive effort - Vehicle Power Plant and Transmission
Characteristics - Vehicle Performance.
Tire–Ground Adhesion and Maximum
Tractive Effort
• When the tractive effort of a vehicle exceeds the limitation of the
maximum tractive effort due to the adhesive capability between
the tire and the ground, the drive wheels will spin on the ground.
• This is especially true when the vehicle drives in wet, icy, snow-
covered, or soft soil roads.
• In this case, a tractive torque on the drive wheel would cause the
wheel to slip significantly on the ground.
• The maximum tractive effort on the drive wheel depends on the
longitudinal force that the adhesive capability between the tire and
the ground can supply, rather than the maximum torque that an
engine can supply.
• The slip, s, of a tire is defined in traction as
where
V is the translational speed of the tire center,
ω is the angular speed of the tire, and
r is the rolling radius of the free rolling tire.
In traction, the speed, V, is less than rω; therefore, the slip of a tire has a positive
value between 0 and 1.0.
• During braking, however, the slip of a tire can be defined as
Power sources delivers torque to the driven wheels. Thus the vehicle
performance is completely determined by the torque-speed
characteristics of the traction motor.
Power Source in Vehicle
Overall Performance
Transmission Characteristics
A clutch in a manual transmission or a torque converter in an automatic. (couple or
decouple the gear box)
The torque and rotating speed from the output shaft of the power plant are
transmitted to the drive wheels through the clutch or torque converter, gearbox, final
drive, differential, and drive shaft.
The gearbox supplies a few gear ratios from its input shaft to its output shaft for the power
plant torque–speed profile to match the requirements of the load.
The final drive is usually a pair of gears that supply a further speed reduction and distribute
the torque to each wheel through the differential.
The torque on the drive wheels, transmitted from the power plant, is expressed as
where
ig is the gear ratio of the transmission
ig = Nin/Nout (Nin—input rotating speed, Nout—output rotating speed),
i0 is the gear ratio of the final drive,
ηt is the efficiency of the driveline from the power plant to the drive wheels
Tp is the torque output from the power plant.
The tractive effort on the drive wheels
The friction in the gear teeth and bearings creates losses in the mechanical gear
transmission
Under loaded condition. The commonly used motors in EVs are
• AC Motors