Analysis of Range Extender Electric Vehicle Performance Using Vehicle Simulator

Range Extender Electric Vehicle (REEV) is a complicated multi-domain engineering system. The road ability on a range extender electric vehicle (REEV) is depending on the balance of subsystems. The important drive components, especially battery, electric machine, wheel and range extender unit are modeled. Vehicle simulation model named AVL Cruise has been used to simulate the balance of subsystems to increase road ability. The complex interactions among the components are taken into account in a complete multi-domain model. The power train system models have been developed, the dynamic behavior of REEV's is simulated under selected driving cycles using rule-based energy management strategy. According to the simulation results, the significant benefits of REEVs for performance and fuel consumption are proved.