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    Honda and Hybrid Electric Vehicles Honda was founded in Hamamatsu, Japan, by Soichiro Honda in 1946 as the Honda Technical Research Institute. The company began as a developer of engines for bicycles, but by 1949 it had produced its first motorcycle, called the Dream. In 1959, Honda entered the U.S. automobile and motorcycle market by opening the American Honda Motor Company. A few years later, in 1963, Honda released its first sports car, the S500, in Japan. Honda Motor Co. Inc. grew rapidly

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    Review of Motors used in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Ujjwal Singh Department of Electrical Engineering University of Texas at Dallas 800 W Campbell Rd, Richardson, Dallas (TX), 75080, USA uxs151330@utdallas.edu Abstract- This paper deals with the different motors used in the hybrid electric vehicles. The performance like the efficiency of induction motor, internal permanent magnet motor and switched reluctance motor is studied. In recent years permanent motors are often used for driving HEV. This paper

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    2 i. Briefly describe the difference between a “Hybrid Electric Vehicle” and an Electric Vehicle. 2 ii. With the aid of diagrams explain the difference between a Series and Parallel Hybrid Electric Vehicles. 2 iii. Research and outline the function, engineering principles and operation of the following parts of a Hybrid Electric Vehicle. Include suitable diagrams to aid your explanations. 3 • Regenerative braking 3 • Battery types used 3 • Electric motors 4 5 • Internal combustion engine (Relate

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    “e-tron,” its nascent line of hybrid electric vehicles. The Audi A3 Sportback e-tron name is a mouthful. Once you get beyond the lengthy moniker for this unusual plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), calling it “e-tron” or “A3 e-tron” seems entirely appropriate. The “e-tron” designation is an Audi registered trademark, representing this brand’s electric and hybrid vehicle efforts, much in the same way Ford uses “Energi” to describe its own line of electrified vehicles. The 2016 Audi A3 Sportback

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    Hybrid and electric vehicles are the future of our world. They won’t be replacing every single gas vehicle in the United States, but hybrids and electric vehicles will certainly become more prevalent in everyday life. Electric and hybrid vehicles have actually been around for a quite a while with electric cars dating all the way back to 1828. Hybrid vehicles have evolved a tremendous amount in the past 100 years leading to improved fuel economy and lower cost of the vehicle itself. Hybrid and electric

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    I am assessing a journal article entitled: Energy efficiency comparison between hydraulic hybrid and hybrid electric vehicles. The journal article was published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, on May 26, 2015. Author Jia-Shiun Chen from the Department of Vehicle Engineering at National Taipei University of Technology, submitted the journal on March 4, 2015.

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    third car manufacturing company and the first in Japan has introduced a new era in the vehicles history. Initial hydrogen, fuel cell and pure electric vehicles were not much successful as they were all very expensive and not very efficient. The true electric vehicles did not have the required standards of an American car buyer because they cost a lot, around US$

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    Abstract-Increased the numbers of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) can have a significant impact on distribution system performance, such as reduction in power quality and efficiency, increase in power losses and voltage variations, as well as an adverse impact on the customers’ energy price. This paper proposed approach evaluates the effect of integrating a large number of PHEV on power system operation as well as appropriate operation of PHEVs can improve the voltage profile in the network

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    INVITED PAPER Modeling and Simulation of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles Tools that can model embedded software as well as components, and can automate the details of electric and hybrid vehicle design, need to be developed. By David Wenzhong Gao, Senior Member IEEE, Chris Mi, Senior Member IEEE, and Ali Emadi, Senior Member IEEE ABSTRACT | This paper discusses the need for modeling and simulation of electric and hybrid vehicles. Different modeling methods such as physics-based Resistive

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    OPPORTUNITIES FOR VOLKSWAGEN • The growing demand for hybrid electric vehicles In recent years, the interest for eco-accommodating cars and electric vehicles has been quickly expanding as environment has turned into a noteworthy sympathy toward numerous administrations and numerous individuals around the globe. As indicated by Rising vitality costs and expanded discharges controls are liable to build the interest for mixture electric vehicles (HEVs), as crossover motors are more fuel proficient and

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