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Power Electronics and Motor Drives
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Power Electronics and Motor Drives

by Bogdan M. Wilamowski, J. David Irwin
October 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1015 pages
40h 24m
English
CRC Press
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31.1 Introduction
With an increasing demand for higher fuel economy in vehicles and environment-friendly solutions, the
last decade has seen a growing emphasis on electric vehicles (EVs), hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), and
plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). A hybrid vehicle is dened as a vehicle that uses two or more
on-board energy to power it. ese sources of power could be an internal combustion engine (ICE), fuel
cells, ultracapacitors, battery, ywheel, etc. Hybrid vehicles have proven to save energy and reduce pol-
lution by combining an electric motor and an ICE in such a way that the most desirable characteristics
of each ...
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ISBN: 9781439802861