Concept of intelligent environment-friendly vehicle and its recent development

The concept of intelligent environment-friendly vehicle (i-EFV) and recent research progress were annotated to explore the next generation of vehicle. The i-EFV integrates three main components including intelligent information interaction, clean energy powertrain and electrified chassis while employing key technologies of structure sharing design, data fusion and control coordination to achieve comprehensive performance, in terms of traffic safety, comfortableness, fuel efficiency and environmental protection. Two typical i-EFV applications including intelligent battery electric vehicle and intelligent hybrid electric vehicle were revealed to prove comprehensive i-EFV advantage with two major foundational research problems in vehicle dynamics and control fields being proposed.