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Journal Of Automotive Safety And Energy ›› 2015, Vol. 6 ›› Issue (03): 201-207.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8484.2015.03.001

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Hybrid Electric Vehicles – Current Status and Future Trend

Huei PENG   

  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2350 Hayward Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
  • Received:2015-09-03 Online:2015-09-25 Published:2015-10-12
  • About author:Prof. Huei PENG,He is a professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the executive director of interdisciplinary and professional engineering with the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the US director of the USChina Clean Energy Research Center-Clean Vehicle Consortium and the associate director of the Michigan Mobility Transformation Center. Dr. Peng is an American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) fellow, and a Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) fellow. His research areas include adaptive and optimal control, fuel cell modeling and control, Li-ion battery modeling and management, Vehicle to Grid (V2G) system optimization, vehicle active safety systems, driver models, design/ analysis/evaluation of vehicle chassis control systems, automated vehicles, advanced powertrain modeling and control.

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Abstract:

The first hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) was built more than 100 years ago. Over the last 15 years,
the technologies have matured and many hybrid passenger cars are offered in US, Japan and China. However
their market shares are still very small in both China and in the US. To make HEVs more successful, they must
become more affordable, and have better performance, so that they can become more competitive compared
with the traditional powertrain vehicles that only run on international combustion engines. This paper reviews
the current status, and discusses several technology concepts to enable multi-planetary gear, multi-mode and
all-wheel drive operations. These concepts likely will help to achieve the needed performance breakthrough.
These concepts are especially important to extend the HEV technologies beyond passenger cars, to light trucks
(LTs) and Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs).

Key words: hybrid electric vehicles (HEV), optimal design, all-wheel-drive, multi-planetary gear, multi-mode