Week-3 Challenge: ADVISOR Tool

ADVISOR TOOL

Aim

CASE 1:From the EV_defaults_in file, if cargo mass is 500Kg with all other defaults conditions, can the vehicle travel for 45 Km with an FTP drive cycle? conclude your observations.

From the file downloaded we are going to open the advisor.m and run the file. An advisor window will open you and click on start.

The window is shown below

• Here cargo mass is 500Kg
• Then click on the continue button

• As per the given condition here w use the FTP drive cycle.
• On one FTP drive cycle, it can only run up to 17.77 Km.
• There we have only 1 drive cycle.
• Later on, we have to click on the run button.

• From the result, we can see that the state of charge decreased from 100% to almost 0% of battery charge, and the vehicle can run 17.77Km
• The conclusion is that the vehicle cannot travel more than 45Km if it includes more driving cycles.

CASE 2: Try changing the battery capacity and repeat the simulation.

Changing the energy storage to ESS_PB_FOCUSEV and keeping the other parameters similar to the last case.

• Here the cargo weight is 500 Kg

• There we have taken the driving cycle as UDDS
• For one driving cycle it has traveled 11.99Km
• So we have 3 driving cycles which means 11.99Km X 3=35.97 Km

From the above results, we can see that the distance (Km) is 35.99 Km, and also the % of SOC as indicated by the second plot has only consumed 20% of the battery still it has the remaining battery of 80% at the end of 4000 seconds.

CASE 3:

Perform gradeability test with PRIUS_Jpn_defaults_in file. Compare your results in a table and conclude.

In the load, File drop-down menu selects 'PRIUS_JPN_defaults_in and the rest of the parameters are kept default.

All the parameters are same as defaults in the above image.

There we are going to change the gradeability of the vehicle.

We have changed the speed of the vehicle which changed the gradeability of the vehicle.

As we can observe from the above image the gradeability has changed to 30% for 10Kmph.

the table of different test results is shown below

For 10 sec gradeability(%)

Vehicle speed	Hybrid	EV	IC engine
10	30.3	30.3	nil
20	19.8	19.8	nil
30	14.7	14.7	2.5
40	11.7	11.7	2.5

Conclusion

From the above table, we can conclude that if we increase the speed of the vehicle then the gradeability is decreased .