An appraisal of electric automobile power sources


Autoria(s): Shukla, AK; Aricò, AS; Antonucci, V
Data(s)

01/06/2001

Resumo

Road transportation, as an important requirement of modern society, is presently hindered by restrictions in emission legislations as well as the availability of petroleum fuels, and as a consequence, the fuel cost. For nearly 270 years, we burned our fossil cache and have come to within a generation of exhausting the liquid part of it. Besides, to reduce the greenhouse gases, and to obey the environmental laws of most countries, it would be necessary to replace a significant number of the petroleum-fueled internal-combustion-engine vehicles (ICEVs) with electric cars in the near future. In this article, we briefly describe the merits and demerits of various proposed electrochemical systems for electric cars, namely the storage batteries, fuel cells and electrochemical supercapacitors, and determine the power and energy requirements of a modern car. We conclude that a viable electric car could be operated with a 50 kW polymer-electrolyte fuel cell stack to provide power for cruising and climbing, coupled in parallel with a 30 kW supercapacitor and/or battery bank to deliver additional short-term burst-power during acceleration.

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application/pdf

Identificador

http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/39488/1/An_appraisal_of.pdf

Shukla, AK and Aricò, AS and Antonucci, V (2001) An appraisal of electric automobile power sources. In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 5 (5). pp. 137-155.

Publicador

Elsevier Science

Relação

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1364-0321(00)00011-3

http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/39488/

Palavras-Chave #Solid State & Structural Chemistry Unit
Tipo

Journal Article

PeerReviewed