Range Extension Opportunities While Heating a Battery Electric Vehicle

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Range Extension Opportunities While Heating a Battery Electric Vehicle

Vespa, Antonio / Titov, Gene / Lustbader, Jason / Rugh, John / Meyer, John J. / Agathocleous, Nicos

The Kia Soul battery electric vehicle (BEV) is available with either a positive temperature coefficient (PTC) heater or an R134a heat pump (HP) with PTC heater combination [1]. The HP uses both ambient air and waste heat from the motor, inverter, and on-board-charger (OBC) for its heat source. Hanon Systems, Hyundai America Technical Center, Inc. (HATCI) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory jointly, with financial support from the U.S. Department of Energy, developed and proved-out technologies that extend the driving range of a Kia Soul BEV while maintaining thermal comfort in cold climates. Improved system configuration concepts that use thermal storage and waste heat more effectively were developed and evaluated. Range extensions of 5%-22% at ambient temperatures ranging from 5 °C to −18 °C were demonstrated. This paper reviews the three-year effort, including test data of the baseline and modified vehicles, resulting range extension, and recommendations for future actions.

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Title :

Range Extension Opportunities While Heating a Battery Electric Vehicle

Additional title:

Sae Technical Papers

Contributors:

Vespa, Antonio (author) / Titov, Gene (author) / Lustbader, Jason (author) / Rugh, John (author) / Meyer, John J. (author) / Agathocleous, Nicos (author)

Conference:

WCX World Congress Experience ; 2018

Published in:

Sae Technical Paper Series

Publication date :

2018-04-03

ISSN :

2688-3627 , 0148-7191

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.4271/2018-01-0066

Type of media :

Conference paper