Battery Electric Buses (BEB) driving range is one of the main challenges limiting their adoption at a massive scale. Heating and air conditioning of the bus cabin is an energy-intensive process that results in additional ...

This study assesses the tank-to-wheel savings in fuel consumption and CO2 emissions as well as vehicle ownership and operating costs of electrified versus conventional midsize passenger vehicles in real-world driving ...

The drive to ban diesel vehicles is well underway in several major European cities with the aim of improving air quality and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and similar plans have been announced by authorities around ...

Energy consumption of Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV) strongly depends on the adopted energy management strategy (EMS). Rule-Based (RB) controllers are the most commonly used for their ability of integration in real-time ...

Reviewing past and current mobility assessments for the Lebanese road transport sector, road mobility demand has experienced a real explosion since 1990, and the trend is strongly upward over the decade to come. This growth ...

Investigations on alternative fuels and new hybrid powertrain architectures have recently undergone significant efforts in the automotive industry, in attempt to reduce carbon emissions from passenger cars. The use of these ...

Considerable efforts have been invested in the automotive industry on electrified powertrains in order to reduce passenger cars’ dependence on fossil fuels. Powertrains electrification resulted in a wide range of mass-production ...

The energy management strategy is one of the key technologies for the design and development of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). In order to investigate the maximum potentials of various powertrain architectures and ...

L'objectif de cette thèse est d'évaluer le potentiel d'amélioration de l'économie de carburant des véhicules, par l'hybridation thermique/électrique du groupe motopropulseur (GMP). Plusieurs configurations sont d'abord ...

In the global attempt to increase the powertrain overall efficiency of hybrid vehicles while reducing the battery size, engine waste heat recovery (WHR) systems are nowadays promising technologies. This is in particular ...