·                   Hardcover: 244 pages

·                   Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann (2000)

·                   Language: English

·                   ISBN-10: 0750699167

·                   ISBN-13: 978-0750699167

Book Description
Electric Vehicle Battery Systems provides operational theory and design guidance for engineers and technicians working to design and develop efficient electric vehicle (EV) power sources. As Zero Emission Vehicles become a requirement in more areas of the world, the technology required to design and maintain their complex battery systems is needed not only by the vehicle designers, but by those who will provide recharging and maintenance services, as well as utility infrastructure providers. Includes fuel cell and hybrid vehicle applications.

Written with cost and efficiency foremost in mind, Electric Vehicle Battery Systems offers essential details on failure mode analysis of VRLA, NiMH battery systems, the fast-charging of electric vehicle battery systems based on Pb-acid, NiMH, Li-ion technologies, and much more. Key coverage includes issues that can affect electric vehicle performance, such as total battery capacity, battery charging and discharging, and battery temperature constraints. The author also explores electric vehicle performance, battery testing (15 core performance tests provided), lithium-ion batteries, fuel cells and hybrid vehicles. In order to make a practical electric vehicle, a thorough understanding of the operation of a set of batteries in a pack is necessary. Expertly written and researched, Electric Vehicle Battery Systems will prove invaluable to automotive engineers, electronics and integrated circuit design engineers, and anyone whose interests involve electric vehicles and battery systems.

Electric Vehicle Technology Explained

·                   Hardcover: 314 pages

·                   Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (December 19, 2003)

·                   Language: English

·                   ISBN-10: 0470851635

·                   ISBN-13: 978-0470851630

Book Description
While the classic battery electric car continues to make only a small impact on the automobile market, other types of electric vehicle, especially hybrids, have made significant and promising improvements. Moreover, small battery electric vehicles such as bicycles and mobility aids are also developing well. Presenting more than 160 diagrams and pictures, this book explains the science and technology behind these important developments, and also introduces the issues that underpin the design and performance modelling of electric vehicles.

Electric Vehicle Technology Explained:

·         Encompasses a full range of electric vehicles: bicycles, mobility aids, delivery vehicles and buses – not just cars.

·         Covers all the basic technology relating to electric road vehicles – batteries, super capacitors, flywheels, fuel cells, electric motors and their controllers, and system design.

·         Considers the environmental benefits and disadvantages of electric vehicles and their component devices.

·         Includes case studies of a range of batteries, hybrids and fuel cell powered vehicles, from bicycles to buses.

·         Offers many MATLAB^® examples explaining the design of appropriate computer prediction models.

Professionals, researchers and engineers in the electric vehicle industry as well as advanced students in electrical and mechanical engineering will benefit from this comprehensive coverage of electric vehicle technology.

Lightweight Electric Hybrid Vehicle Design

·                   Hardcover: 320 pages

·                   Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann (June 2001)

·                   Language: English

·                   ISBN-10: 0750650923

The Motor Vehicle 13 Edition

·                   Hardcover: 1214 pages

·                   Publisher: SAE International; 13Rev Ed edition (June 2001)

·                   Language: English

·                   ISBN-10: 0768006392

·                   ISBN-13: 978-0768006391

Book Description
The thirteenth edition of The Motor Vehicle features up-to-date information on vehicle technology. Completely updated, the book is organized into three major sections focusing on:

The Engine

The Transmission

The Carriage Unit

The new edition features three new chapters devoted to electric propulsion, static and dynamic safety, and wheel and tires. The book also contains expanded information on: the compression ignition engine; automatic, semi-automatic and continuously variable transmissions; braking and traction; and steering.

The Motor Vehicle provides practicing engineers, students, and car enthusiasts with a comprehensive reference to the car as we know it today. It is written in simple terms so that, despite the complexity of certain topics, readers will easily understand the concepts presented.

Tyre Vehicle Dynamics

·                   Paperback: 621 pages

·                   Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann; 2Rev Ed edition (2002)

·                   Language: English

·                   ISBN-10: 0750669187

·                   ISBN-13: 978-0750669184

Book Description
In Tyre and Vehicle Dynamics Professor Hans Pacejka provides both basic and more advanced explanations of the pneumatic tyre and its impact on vehicle dynamic performance.

Tyre and Vehicle Dynamics is the definitive book in tyre mechanics by the acknowledged leading world authority Hans Pacejka.

The author provides both basic and advanced knowledge of the mechanical behaviour of the pneumatic tyre and its impact on vehicle dynamic performance. The theoretical treatment given to the subject is supported throughout by practical experimental observations, and the book also focuses on developing an understanding upon which mathematical models of tyre behaviour can be developed and used. The text then acquaints the reader with the way in which the tyre models are incorporated in vehicle models and how the tyre influences vehicle behaviour. Those working in any industry involving equipment with tyres, such as aircraft undercarriage designers, will find this book both extremely useful and relevant.

Understanding Automotive Electronics 5 edition

·                   Paperback: 446 pages

·                   Publisher: Newnes; 5 edition (1997)

·                   Language: English

·                   ISBN-10: 0750675993

·                   ISBN-13: 978-0750675994

Book Description
In addition, the new edition explains new electronically controlled vehicle motion control systems including advanced suspension, electronically controlled electric power steering, 4-wheel steering and electronically controlled electric brakes. The braking systems are part of an integrated motion control system that couples ABS brakes; traction control and variable vehicle dynamics for enhanced stability are also described. The development of hybrid/electric vehicles and their associated electronic control/monitoring systems as well as the new technologies incorporated into conventional gasoline and diesel-fueled engines are also discussed.

vehicle stability

·                   Hardcover: 264 pages

·                   Publisher: Marcel Dekker (March 1, 2004)

·                   Language: English

·                   ISBN-10: 0824757114

·                   ISBN-13: 978-0824757113

Book Description

This reference offers a systematic approach to the dynamics and stability of vehicles such as cars, bicycles, trailers, motorcycles, and trains and shows how mathematical models of varying degrees of complexity can be used to suggest design guidelines for assurance of vehicle stability. Based on more than 30 years of teaching experience from a renowned authority in mechanical systems modeling, this volume illustrates the derivations of equations of motion using Newton's laws, Lagrange's equations, and bond graphs through a series of examples dispersed throughout the text and describes the similarities and differences in the stability properties of various vehicle types.