Hybrid pollutants emissions and driving experimental results

One of the way for improving environmental performances of car propulsion system is the adoption of hybrid systems where the internal combustion engine (ICE) is coupled or temporary overtaken by an electric motor.

The reference prototype of this article is the FIAT Multipla Hybrid where are possible three functional modes: Pure Electric mode, Serial Hybrid and Parallel Hybrid.

Particularly it was approached the torque splitting algorithm applied to the parallel hybrid one; the work was first tested in simulation, after implemented in the electronic control units and finally tested on the field using the test bench of the 10 hybrid vehicles that belongs to the Atena Project [1].