Nonconventional three-wheel electric vehicle for urban mobility

Author

Solero, Luca ; Honorati, Onorato ; Caricchi, Federico ; Crescimbini, Fabio

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. & Ind. Eng., Univ. Roma Tre, Rome, Italy

Volume

50

Issue

4

fYear

2001

fDate

7/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1085

Lastpage

1091

Abstract

This paper outlines the original solutions adopted for powering a nonconventional three-wheel electric vehicle. This is a lightweight vehicle for use in urban mobility with mission tasks such as 50 km/h cruising speed and 80 km range of autonomy. The propulsion system is based on a lead-acid battery-fed wheel direct drive. This is arranged with a 4.5 kW prototype of a slotless axial-flux permanent magnet machine, which has a total weight of 15 kg and is capable of 85 Nm continuous torque and 120 Nm peak torque over 2 min. The motor is totally enclosed in the single front wheel of the vehicle and fed through an IGBT bidirectional power converter, which allows the control of both motoring and regenerative braking operations. Design characteristics and experimental data taken from the prototype of wheel direct drive are given

Keywords

AC motor drives; DC-DC power convertors; PWM invertors; electric vehicles; insulated gate bipolar transistors; permanent magnet motors; secondary cells; 15 kg; 4.5 kW; IGBT bidirectional power converter; PWM inverter; bidirectional boost DC-DC converter; continuous torque; lead-acid battery-fed wheel direct drive; lightweight vehicle; motoring operation control; peak torque; propulsion system; regenerative braking operation control; slotless axial-flux permanent magnet machine; three-wheel electric vehicle; urban mobility; Batteries; Cities and towns; Electric vehicles; Propulsion; Prototypes; Rotors; Stators; Topology; Torque; Wheels;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9545

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/25.938582

Filename

938582