Energy Savings by Essential System Integration in the Forthcoming E-Mobility
Pietro Perlo, Fiat
Abstract:
The electrical power-train is superior to the direct combustion based propulsion from several points of view: better overall energy efficiency, lower emissions, better fun to drive and reduced use of primary materials. The power-train of a full Electric Vehicle (EV) is conceptually the simplest and the most economic; there are no technical, economical, social or environmental reasons against its adoption.
Full Electric Vehicles require high efficiency power electronics to connect the various stages including the e-grid (or local renewable energy sources), accumulators, high power-energy switches, in the vehicle high power lines, high power converters, drivers and e-motors. Rather than more electronics or more computational power the development of higher efficiency electronic subsystems and, even more important, the engineering of their globally optimized integration-management, will be the factors to speed-up towards this new exciting era of mobility.