New Hybrid Powertrain architectures for European Passenger Car Market

The present paper describes a comparative analysis of different hybrid architectures and optimization of the total energy efficiency on passenger car applications. The first part of the study is devoted to providing simulation results of different type of hybrid architecture, highlighting their advantages and disadvantages with numerical simulation on different type of use cases, not only on legislated cycles but also on RDE use cases representative of customer behavior. The outputs of the usage of Passenger cars for the EU market highlights interesting results not yet published. The above mentioned analysis opens the window to (1) study new control strategies for optimizing the total energy consumption in different scenarios and (2) investigate options for maximizing the efficiency of the overall powertrain system.