A large scale design space exploration provides invaluable insight into vehicle design tradeoffs. Performing such a search requires designers to: • define appropriate performance criteria by which to judge the vehicles in the design space; • develop vehicle models to calculate the needed criteria; and • determine suitable velocity profiles as well as grade and terrain conditions to feed into the models. This paper presents a methodology for creating and conducting a design space exploration with particular application to heavy duty series hybrid electric-trucks.

Volume Subject Area:
Dynamic Systems and Control
Keywords:
Hybrid electric vehicle, modeling, design space exploration
Topics:
Design, Hybrid electric vehicles, Modeling
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