DocumentCode
802935
Title
Hybrids: then and now
Author
Wouk, Victor
Author_Institution
Victor Wouk Associates, New York City, NY, USA
Volume
32
Issue
7
fYear
1995
fDate
7/1/1995 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
16
Lastpage
21
Abstract
Very different from their turn-of-the-century forebears, modern hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) are almost as clean as pure EVs and have the range of conventional cars. The author discusses the advantages of HEV and describes the two basic types of HEV, parallel and serial. The serial type has a downsized engine on board that drives a generator that supplements the batteries and can charge them when they run low. In the parallel type the ICE and the electric motor can both deliver propulsion power to the wheels. The advantages of these two types of HEV are discussed. The parallel HEV is then discussed in more detail
Keywords
automobiles; electric propulsion; electric vehicles; internal combustion engines; battery charging; downsized engine; generator; hybrid electric vehicles; parallel hybrid electric vehicles; propulsion power; serial hybrid electric vehicles; Acceleration; Automobiles; Batteries; Heat engines; Hybrid electric vehicles; Ice; Internal combustion engines; Road vehicles; Testing; Thermal pollution;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Spectrum, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9235
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/6.392796
Filename
392796
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