Influence of gear number design on energy consumption for an electric bus

Wei Gao, Yuan Zou*

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Abstract

In order to analyze the effect of gear number on the energy consumption of electric bus and the gearbox configurations, a power-train model of an electric bus was build, the AMT gear number was configured to be 4, 3 and 2 respectively. Dynamic programming was applied to find out the optimal gear shifting trajectory for the 3 gearbox configurations under 4 different driving cycles, then the two-parameter gear shifting strategies were extracted from the optimal results, and the minimum energy consumptions for the 3 gearbox configurations were achieved from simulation. The result shows that: compared to 4 speed gearbox, using 3 speed gearbox bring 1% extra energy consumption, while 2 speed gearbox bring about 5% extra energy consumption.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)441-445
Number of pages5
JournalBeijing Ligong Daxue Xuebao/Transaction of Beijing Institute of Technology
Volume36
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 May 2016

Keywords

  • Dynamic programming (DP)
  • Electric bus
  • Gear number
  • Two-parameter shifting

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Gao, W., & Zou, Y. (2016). Influence of gear number design on energy consumption for an electric bus. Beijing Ligong Daxue Xuebao/Transaction of Beijing Institute of Technology, 36(5), 441-445. https://doi.org/10.15918/j.tbit1001-0645.2016.05.001