Performance Study Of Different Types Of Battery Of Electric Vehicles.

Abstract

Fossil fuel and internal combustion engines are the backbone of our transportation and energy need since the industrial revolution. However, this extreme usage of fossil fuel over the period of last 200 years comes back to us with some extreme consequences of global warming, drastic change of environment, melt of glacier, rise in sea level, draut and many more. Scientists are looking for solutions to replace fossil fuel based transportation system for a long time now. In this path, electric vehicle (EV) was an important introduction to solve the problems of current transportation system. Although the concept of EV is old enough but the mass production and use of complete EV cars was delayed due to not having suitable battery or energy storage system for the EV up until the beginning of 21st century. Energy storage system playsthe vital role in EV. Currently there are three main stream EVs - hybrid electric vehicle (HEV), fuel cell vehicle (FCV) and battery electric vehicle (BEV or EV). In this work, we have analyzed differenttypes of battery performance of battery electric vehicles. We have thoroughly studied various types of batteries such as Nickel metal-hydrate, Zinc hybrid-cathode, lead acid, lithium ion and so on. A MATLAB Simulink based electric vehicle has been designed to evaluate the performance of the batteries. The performance parameters have been evaluated for all the batteries