Abstract:

Battery-powered electric vehicles (EVs) are starting to play a significant role in today's automotive industry. There are many different types of batteries used in today's electric vehicles, making it difficult to determine which one best meets all of the most important characteristics from various perspectives, such as energy storage efficiency, structural characteristics, cost price, safety, and utilisation life. This study presents the autonomy of an Electric Vehicle that utilizes four different types of batteries: Lithium Ion (Li-Ion), Molten Salt (Na-NiCl2), Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni-MH) and Lithium Sulphur (Li-S), all of them having the same electric energy storage capacity. The novelty of this scientific work is the implementation of four different types of batteries for Electric Vehicles on the same model to evaluate the vehicle's autonomy and the efficiency of these battery types on a driving cycle, in real time, digitized by computer simulation.