中国电气工程学报(英文) ›› 2022, Vol. 8 ›› Issue (3): 57-75.doi: 10.23919/CJEE.2022.000026

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  • 收稿日期:2021-05-29 修回日期:2021-07-14 接受日期:2021-08-30 出版日期:2022-09-25 发布日期:2022-10-21

Route Towards Road Freight Electrification in India: Examining Battery Electric Truck Powertrain and Energy Consumption

Sreedhar Madichetty1*, Avram John Neroth1, Sukumar Mishra2, B. Chitti Babu3   

  1. 1. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Mahindra University Ecole Centrale, Hyderabad 500043, India;
    2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi 110016, India;
    3. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Kanchipuram 600127, India
  • Received:2021-05-29 Revised:2021-07-14 Accepted:2021-08-30 Online:2022-09-25 Published:2022-10-21
  • Contact: * E-mail: sreedhar. iitd@gmail.com
  • About author:Sreedhar Madichetty (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Tech. degree from the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Anantapur, Anantapuramu, India, in 2010, and the M.Tech (Topper and Gold Medal) and the Ph.D. degrees from the KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India, in 2012 and 2015, respectively. In 2014, he joined the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, as a Lecturer. In 2017, he joined as SERB sponsored NPDF at IIT Delhi and moved to Trinity College- Dublin in 2019 as a Senior Research Fellow. He is currently working as Associate Professor in Department of EEE at Ecole Centrale School of Engineering, Mahindra University, India. He has authored more than 30 research articles (including papers in international journals, conferences, and book chapters). His research interests include power electronics, cyber physical systems and renewable energy systems. Dr. Madichetty is a senior member of IEEE.
    Avram John Neroth graduated from the Lawrence School, Lovedale, Tamil Nadu, India in 2020. He was a recipient of the KC Mahindra Search for Talent Scholarship, Science stream (2019). In 2021, he joined the Ecole Centrale School of Engineering, Mahindra University as a research scholar. He is currently studying at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His current research interests include electric vehicles and power electronics in solar photovoltaic systems.
    Sukumar Mishra (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India, in 1992 and 2000, respectively. He is currently a Professor with the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India, and has been its part for the past 17 years. He is the founder of SILOV SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED, a company that specifically deals in products related to renewable energy sources utilizable at household scale as well as at commercial setups. Since March 2020, he has been the Associate Dean Research and Development with IIT Delhi. He has been granted fellowships from academies like NASI (India), INAE (India), and professional societies like IET (UK), IETE (India), and IE (India). He has also been recognized as the INAE Industry Academic Distinguished Professor.
    B. Chitti Babu (M’08-SM’15) received Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India in 2012. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India from 2007 to 2013. He had Post-Doctoral research appointments with the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland, during 2013-2014, and with the VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, during 2014-2015. Both of these appointments were sponsored by the European Commission, UK. He was an Assistant Professor in Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham (UK) Malaysia Campus, Malaysia, from Sep. 2016- June 2018. Since June 2018, he has been an Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Kancheepuram, Chennai, India. He was a recipient of prestigious Young Systems Scientist Award 2019 sponsored by Systems Society of India. B. Chitti Babu serves as an editorial board member/associate editor of many peer reviewed impact factor journals, including IET Renewable Power Generation, IET Power Electronics, IET Energy Systems Integration, Control Engineering Practice, International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, Electrical Engineering, and Energy Sources-Part A. His current research interests include power electronics applications in smart distribution grids containing renewable energy sources, design of low power photovoltaic (PV) system including MPPT algorithm, control and grid integration of renewable energy systems. He is a senior member of IEEE, IEEE Power & Energy Society, IEEE Industrial Application Society, IEEE Smart Grid Community.

Abstract: Medium-duty/heavy-duty trucks (MD/HDTs) are yet to be included in India’s electric mobility plans. With the improvement of electric vehicle (EV) technologies, there is a growing interest in battery-electric trucks (BETs) from original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The time is opportune to consider electrification as a future direction for road freight in India. Accordingly, this article presents the results of an energy consumption simulation study of a BET under Indian conditions. This study specifically considered an MDBET over a domestic drive cycle. These energy consumption figures can facilitate future studies that analyze the technical and practical feasibility of BETs in the country. In addition, the article provides the requisite groundwork for BET modeling for a simulation study by reviewing available EV powertrain systems and components. Appropriate powertrain considerations are thereby obtained for a typical medium-duty/heavy-duty battery-electric truck (MD/HDBET) in the Indian context.

Key words: Electric truck, heavy-duty battery electric truck, medium-duty battery electric truck, energy consumption, vehicle powertrain