Electrified road transport through plug-in hybrid powertrains: Compliance by simulation of CO2 specific emission targets with real driving cycles

Worldwide targets on specific CO2 emissions (g/km) seem to make the use of internal combustion engines (ICE) prohibitive when adopting conventional driving cycles concerning road transport.This research comes therefore from the necessity of an accurate analysis of the real driving habits in order to...

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Main Authors: Marcello Marabete, Bruno Dalla Chiara, Claudio Maino, Ezio Spessa
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-09-01
Series:Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590198222001129
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description Worldwide targets on specific CO2 emissions (g/km) seem to make the use of internal combustion engines (ICE) prohibitive when adopting conventional driving cycles concerning road transport.This research comes therefore from the necessity of an accurate analysis of the real driving habits in order to evaluate whether its implementation on an alternative powertrain, suitable to differentiate urban (local zero emissions) and extra-urban travels (highest performances of ICEs, even better than electric motors when contemplating the entire energy chain), can guarantee the compliance with specific CO2 emissions reduction legislation; this last has been introduced with the aim of containing or even erasing global emissions from the transport sector in next years.After an overview of all the main available technological alternatives, as regards powertrains, the Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV) solution has been analysed.An experimental driving cycle is proposed by combining representative cycles obtained from a previous study, based on data provided by FCA, now Stellantis, where a clustering procedure has been applied to a sample of over two-thousand real journeys made in 2015 and 2016 in all Europe with conventional automobiles; appropriate ranges of distance, time, average speed in urban and extra urban conditions, idle times and stops have been identified thanks to a statistical analysis and the cycle has been created with all of these requirements to be as similar as possible to most of daily trips by road transport.PHEV market has been examined in order to identify the components and architectures that characterize the most registered automobiles; a realistic model has therefore been created and used for the experimental cycle simulation.Simulation results show that PHEV technology has the potential to consume 69% less fuel than a conventional vehicle counterpart with a consequent reduction of 71% in emitted tank-to-wheel (TTW) tons of CO2 and significant reductions in fuel expenditure, in one year, because of the different source of energy.
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spelling doaj.art-81ec4eac69c64370817e41822cade10c2022-12-22T01:52:31ZengElsevierTransportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives2590-19822022-09-0115100651Electrified road transport through plug-in hybrid powertrains: Compliance by simulation of CO2 specific emission targets with real driving cyclesMarcello Marabete0Bruno Dalla Chiara1Claudio Maino2Ezio Spessa3Politecnico di Torino, Dept. DIATI - Transport Systems, Italy; Politecnico di Torino, Dept. DENERG, Italy; Corresponding author at: Politecnico di Torino, Dept. DIATI - Transport Systems, Italy.Politecnico di Torino, Dept. DIATI - Transport Systems, ItalyPolitecnico di Torino, Dept. DENERG, ItalyPolitecnico di Torino, Dept. DENERG, ItalyWorldwide targets on specific CO2 emissions (g/km) seem to make the use of internal combustion engines (ICE) prohibitive when adopting conventional driving cycles concerning road transport.This research comes therefore from the necessity of an accurate analysis of the real driving habits in order to evaluate whether its implementation on an alternative powertrain, suitable to differentiate urban (local zero emissions) and extra-urban travels (highest performances of ICEs, even better than electric motors when contemplating the entire energy chain), can guarantee the compliance with specific CO2 emissions reduction legislation; this last has been introduced with the aim of containing or even erasing global emissions from the transport sector in next years.After an overview of all the main available technological alternatives, as regards powertrains, the Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV) solution has been analysed.An experimental driving cycle is proposed by combining representative cycles obtained from a previous study, based on data provided by FCA, now Stellantis, where a clustering procedure has been applied to a sample of over two-thousand real journeys made in 2015 and 2016 in all Europe with conventional automobiles; appropriate ranges of distance, time, average speed in urban and extra urban conditions, idle times and stops have been identified thanks to a statistical analysis and the cycle has been created with all of these requirements to be as similar as possible to most of daily trips by road transport.PHEV market has been examined in order to identify the components and architectures that characterize the most registered automobiles; a realistic model has therefore been created and used for the experimental cycle simulation.Simulation results show that PHEV technology has the potential to consume 69% less fuel than a conventional vehicle counterpart with a consequent reduction of 71% in emitted tank-to-wheel (TTW) tons of CO2 and significant reductions in fuel expenditure, in one year, because of the different source of energy.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590198222001129Electrified road transportPlug-in hybrid electric vehiclesAutomobiles and light-duty vehiclesData analysisState of chargeDriving habits
spellingShingle Marcello Marabete
Bruno Dalla Chiara
Claudio Maino
Ezio Spessa
Electrified road transport through plug-in hybrid powertrains: Compliance by simulation of CO2 specific emission targets with real driving cycles
Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Electrified road transport
Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles
Automobiles and light-duty vehicles
Data analysis
State of charge
Driving habits
title Electrified road transport through plug-in hybrid powertrains: Compliance by simulation of CO2 specific emission targets with real driving cycles
title_full Electrified road transport through plug-in hybrid powertrains: Compliance by simulation of CO2 specific emission targets with real driving cycles
title_fullStr Electrified road transport through plug-in hybrid powertrains: Compliance by simulation of CO2 specific emission targets with real driving cycles
title_full_unstemmed Electrified road transport through plug-in hybrid powertrains: Compliance by simulation of CO2 specific emission targets with real driving cycles
title_short Electrified road transport through plug-in hybrid powertrains: Compliance by simulation of CO2 specific emission targets with real driving cycles
title_sort electrified road transport through plug in hybrid powertrains compliance by simulation of co2 specific emission targets with real driving cycles
topic Electrified road transport
Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles
Automobiles and light-duty vehicles
Data analysis
State of charge
Driving habits
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590198222001129
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