A detailed review on the parameters to be considered for an accurate estimation on the Plug-in Electric Vehicle's final State of Charge

Based on existing studies to estimate Batteries State of Charge (SOC), many published papers have suggested numeric models to express the relationship between the SOC of a battery in Plug-in Electric Vehicle (PEV) and the vehicle travelled distance. Knowing the battery SOC and based on these relations, other studies concentrated on the prediction of the distance range travelled by a PEV. Reversible linear approaches study the prediction of the SOC knowing the travelled distance or vise-versa. Other more realistic non-linear and not reversible models are published involving more parameters like losses in the battery or not homogeneous trajectories. Based on a wide review of the parameters considered in these models, this paper present a more realistic and accurate one for the SOC prediction. A comparative study with existing models could be easily deduced from this paper in order to show how much the accuracy is improved by considering more parameters.