Advanced Simulation Tool to Develop Efficient Thermal Management Systems for Electric Vehicles

The worldwide concerns on air pollution and oil depletion in resources have pushed more automotive industry attention toward electric vehicles (EVs) as a long-term solution. However, the driving range of EV s are still less than the traditional combustion engine vehicles. Development of an efficient thermal management system for EV s is of significant importance to improve the overall vehicle performance whilst prolonging the driving range. To accelerate this development target, this paper introduces an advanced simulation tool based on an internet-distributed hardware-in-the-loop simulation (ID-HILS) concept. The ID-HILS platform therefore offer a high flexibility in configuring the simulation which combines both virtual and/or physical vehicle sub-systems distributed at different environment and/or locations. This helps to reduce the efforts and costs to build an entire vehicle simulation tool for the generation of thermal management systems.