Week-3 Challenge: ADVISOR Tool

1. For EV_defaults_in file, if cargo mass is 500 kg with all other default conditions, can the vehicle travel for 45 km with FTP drive cycle? Conclude your observations.

Sol:

In below screenshot I have seleted EV_defaults_in file and change the wight to 500kg, All others parameters are as it is in default condition.

Here below 2nd screenshot in which I have seleted a drive cycle which is FTP and keeping all other condition as it is.

So, after all changes I have run the Model and below are the result.

As we have result screenshot above, its show the distance travel is 17.8Km. We are not able to travel 45Km of distance in single charge. We can observe SOC graph its comes to near about zero on 2500 sec.

2. In the above case, try changing the battery capacity and repeat the simulation.

Sol:

In above model I am going to do one change, In same above model I am changing battery capacity. I amtaking battery which is "ESS_PB65_FocusEV"

Keeking the same drive cycle as previous one, Below is the result which I have received,

Now above we can see the result, The distance convered is 17.8Km as same as the previous one but we can see SOC grpah, here after 2500s the SOC is not zero it is approximitly 0.82-0.83. So its mean in one drive cycle we can cover 17.8Km of distannce. Now lets see how many kilometers of distance we can cover in single charge. So now I am increasing our drive cycle so we can check how many distance we can cover in single charge.

I have aaplied 4 , 5 and 6 driving cycle. As I have observe that at 6 drive cycle the totle distance covered is 96km and the as we can see the above SOC graph, its come to zero at 13000s. Its mean with this configuration, In single charge we can cover 96Km distance.

3. Perform gradeability test with PRIUS_Jpn_defaults_in file

Compare your results in table and conclude.

Sol:

I have seleted a PRIUS_Jpn_defaults_in model.

I kept all other parameter same and click continue. In below screen shot I have click on Grability test below is thescreen shot.

In below screen I kept speed 55mps as it is.

Below Screenshot shows the result in at speed 55mps the gradibility is 1.7%

In below screenshot result shown for the speed 50mps. The grability when speed is 50mps is 2%

In below screenshot result shown for the speed 40mps. The grability when speed is 40mps is 2.5%

So As we can see the above result for 3 different speed, We can conclud that with increase speed the gradibility decreases and vice-versa.

	VEHICLE 1	VEHICLE 2	VEHICLE 3
Speed	55mps	50mps	40mps
Gradibilitiy	1.7%	2.00%	2.5%