Simulation battery cooling system for small scale electric vehicle (light EV).

Abstract

The Battery Thermal Management System (BTMS) has widely used for Electric Vehicle (EV) as cooling system to reduce high temperature occurred from batteries source during discharge and charge process. Since the performance and cycle life of batterie is very sensitive to temperature, it is important to maintain the proper temperature range in order to avoid the thermal issues and improve the performance. Therefore, the purpose of this project is to study the effectiveness of different type of cooling system for small scale Electric Vehicle (EV). The study is conducted by using two main types of cooling system available which is airand liquid cooling. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of those cooling system, an analysis is conducted by developing an EV model using MATLAB/Simulink software and simulated at different speed of the vehicle from the few driving cycle that commonly used in researcher paper.