Mechanical Hybrid Control for Heavy-Goods Vehicle

Abstract

As fuel consumption and emissions regulations for heavy goods vehicles (HGV) are getting stringent, it is becoming increasingly important to develop new technologies for next generation of HGVs. A new mechanical hybrid system is developed with Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS) to increase fuel economy. This system is compared with a conventional system by simulating for driving cycles on AVL CRUISE. A mechanical hybrid controller has been developed and its performance assessed by fuel consumption results on driving cycles of VECTO Long-Haul (Vehicle Energy Consumption Calculation Tool) and WHVC (World Harmonized Vehicle Cycle). Driving cycle simulation result provide an insight of target customer of the new technology.