Research on Control Strategy and Energy Consumption for Electric Vehicles

This paper presents the effect of different control methods on energy consumption of the electric vehicle. The vehicle model was created with Matlab program that has three components; battery model, IM driver model and drivetrain model, respectively. The commonly used drive cycle ECE-15 is adopted for simulation. PI and Fuzzy Logic control methods were applied on electric vehicle and the energy consumption of battery were compared by two different control methods for electric vehicle. Analysis of energy consumption has been intended by selecting the values of 50 km/h, 90 km/h and 120 km/h as reference velocities. Simulations like this will help which FLC method is more useful for performance of electric vehicle.