Technology Improvement Pathways to Cost-effective Vehicle Electrification

2010-01-0824

04/12/2010

Event
SAE 2010 World Congress & Exhibition
Authors Abstract
Content
Electrifying transportation can reduce or eliminate dependence on foreign fuels, emission of green house gases, and emission of pollutants. One challenge is finding a pathway for vehicles that gains wide market acceptance to achieve a meaningful benefit. This paper evaluates several approaches aimed at making plug-in electric vehicles (EV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) cost-effective including opportunity charging, replacing the battery over the vehicle life, improving battery life, reducing battery cost, and providing electric power directly to the vehicle during a portion of its travel. Many combinations of PHEV electric range and battery power are included. For each case, the model accounts for battery cycle life and the national distribution of driving distances to size the battery optimally. Using the current estimates of battery life and cost, only the dynamically plugged-in pathway was cost-effective to the consumer. Significant improvements in battery life and battery cost also made PHEVs more cost-effective than today's hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and conventional internal combustion engine vehicles (CVs).
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2010-01-0824
Pages
13
Citation
Brooker, A., Thornton, M., and Rugh, J., "Technology Improvement Pathways to Cost-effective Vehicle Electrification," SAE Technical Paper 2010-01-0824, 2010, https://doi.org/10.4271/2010-01-0824.
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Published
Apr 12, 2010
Product Code
2010-01-0824
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English