WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development
Print ISSN: 1790-5079, E-ISSN: 2224-3496
Volume 9, 2013
CO2 Impact of Intelligent Plug-in Vehicles
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Abstract: Information and Communication Technologies can play a very important role in order to optimize the energy usage of hybrid and electrical vehicles and, thus, to reduce their environmental impact. In particular, vehicular communications can be exploited to spread information useful to predict future driving conditions and, then, future load power demand of vehicles. In the present investigation, the potentiality of ICT to reach this goal has been analyzed numerically with respect to a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle and a battery electric vehicle. The simulation of the driving scenario and the prediction of future speed profile on board of a vehicle have been obtained with the use of a vehicular traffic simulator (SUMO). CO2 emissions were calculated with at Well-To-Wheel approach with respect to realistic urban driving patterns.