Electric Vehicle Machines and Drives Design, Analysis and Application [Hardcover]

A timely comprehensive reference consolidates the research and development of electric vehicle machines and drives for electric and hybrid propulsions

• Focuses on electric vehicle machines and drives
• Covers the major technologies in the area including fundamental concepts and applications
• Emphasis the design criteria, performance analyses and application examples or potentials of various motor drives and machine systems 
• Accompanying website includes the simulation models and outcomes as supplementary material

Preface xiii

Organization of This Book xv

Acknowledgments xvii

About the Author xix

1 Introduction 1

1.1 What Is an Electric Vehicle? 1

1.2 Overview of EV Challenges 3

1.2.1 Pure Electric Vehicle 4

1.2.2 Hybrid Electric Vehicle 4

1.2.3 Gridable Hybrid Electric Vehicle 5

1.2.4 Fuel-Cell Electric Vehicle 5

1.3 Overview of EV Technologies 6

1.3.1 Motor Drive Technology 6

1.3.2 Energy Source Technology 9

1.3.3 Battery Charging Technology 11

1.3.4 Vehicle-to-Grid Technology 14

References 16

2 DC Motor Drives 19

2.1 System Configurations 19

2.2 DC Machines 20

2.2.1 Structure of DC Machines 20

2.2.2 Principle of DC Machines 22

2.2.3 Modeling of DC Machines 22

2.3 DC-DC Converters 24

2.3.1 DC-DC Converter Topologies 24

2.3.2 Soft-Switching DC-DC Converter Topologies 27

2.4 DC Motor Control 28

2.4.1 Speed Control l�8