Optimizing for efficiency or battery life in a battery/supercapacitor electric vehicle

A novel energy control strategy for a battery/supercapacitor vehicle, which is designed to be tunable to achieve different goals, is described. Two possible goals for adding a pack of supercapacitors are examined for a test vehicle using lead-acid batteries: 1) improving the vehicle's efficienc...

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Main Authors: Carter, Rebecca (Author), Cruden, Andrew (Author), Hall, Peter J. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2012-05.
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