Fast and accurate battery model applicable for EV and HEV simulation

The need to reduce fuel consumption, minimize emissions, and improve levels of safety, comfort, and reliability is expected to result in a much higher demand for electric power in future cars. In order to develop the needed control algorithms and to optimize the required components some kind of virtual prototype environment is needed. Even so for most components good models already exist, an adequate model for the battery is still missing. However, this is needed since the battery has a large impact on the efficiency of the total system. Therefore this work presents a battery model applicable for EV and HEV simulations.