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Shell Eco Marathon : Electric Drive for World's Most Fuel Efficient Car

<p>A direct driven permanent magnet synchronous machine with concentrated windings is optimized with respect to system efficiency. The goal is to win the European Shell Eco Marathon Urban Concept group using a hydrogen fuel cell and an electric motor. Considerations such as on-board energy storage, a freewheel for coasting, winding design and connections are taken into account. The result is a machine with higher efficiency at all loads and an optimal operation point at cruising speed, obtaining 93% efficiency. Considerations for further improvements in both power electronics and motor design are presented, along with a new philosophy for making very slow PMSM CW machines with multiple phases, both yielding higher efficiency and smaller requirements to structural stiffness.</p>

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:ntnu-9955
Date January 2009
CreatorsFaleide, Rolv Marius
PublisherNorwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Institutt for elkraftteknikk
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, text

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