Ultracapacitors as sole energy storage device in hybrid electric cars?

Author

Farkas, Alon ; Bonert, Richard

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Toronto Univ., Ont., Canada

fYear

1994

fDate

20-21 Oct 1994

Firstpage

97

Lastpage

101

Abstract

New types of electric capacitors may provide, within several years, power capacitors which could be used as energy storage devices in serial hybrid electric car drives instead of a battery. This paper discusses how to determine the required size of such a capacitor used as the sole energy storage device. The performance requirements and parameters influencing the size of the capacitor are defined and a model of a hybrid car system is proposed to determine the size of the capacitor. Simulation results are presented to demonstrate the choices in selecting the capacitor size and to provide an estimate of the performance of a hybrid vehicle with capacitive energy storage

Keywords

capacitor storage; electric propulsion; electric vehicles; power capacitors; simulation; traction motor drives; capacitive energy storage; capacitor size requirements; electric capacitors; energy storage device; hybrid electric cars; power capacitors; simulation; ultracapacitors; Batteries; Drives; Energy storage; Engines; Fuels; Ice; Power capacitors; Supercapacitors; Vehicles; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics in Transportation, 1994. [Proceedings]

Conference_Location

Dearborn, MI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1839-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PET.1994.572364

Filename

572364