Volume 9: Sustainable Energy Solutions for Changing the World: Part I

Application of a new type of Lithium-Sulfur battery in plug-in hybrid electric vehicle cruise control Yiming Ye, Jiangfeng Zhang, Srikanth Pilla, and Apparao M Rao

Abstract

This paper analyzes the application of a novel Lithium-Sulfur (Li-S) battery with the bilateral solid electrolyte interface to the cruise control of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). An optimal cruise control strategy based on the dynamic programming algorithm is modified to include battery degradation cost during energy management. The degradation cost of a Lithium-ion Battery is used as a benchmark to analyze the degradation cost of Li-S battery of PHEVs. The comparison results demonstrated that the application of the new Li-S battery significantly reduces the cost of PHEVs.

Keywords Li-S battery, Plug-in hybrid vehicle, Battery degradation, Energy management strategy