Energy optimization of hybrid vehicles: A general, suboptimal analysis

In the last few decades a lot of good papers have been published proposing techniques for optimizing energy management on-board hybrid vehicles. However the large majority of them focused on specific architectures, and suggested algorithms valid just for them. This paper, on the contrary, performs a very basic analysis, in which hybrid vehicles are modelled in idealized way and the effects of the various characteristics affecting consumption are analyzed one at a time: efficiency map shape, ON/OFF strategy, battery and converter losses, driving cycle versus engine power.