Modeling and experimental validation of vehicle's electric powertrain

In recent years, the need to reduce CO2 emissions has developed a change in transports. For this reason, E-mobility has been increasingly adopted, causing the need to simulate the behaviour of new vehicles. This paper proposes the assembly of an electric vehicle prototype and the validation of the proposed electric powertrain model. An inverter was used to control a Brushless SPM Motor and the battery pack was designed and assembled to be compatible with the other powertrain elements. Once the components were defined, a powertrain model was developed to simulate the behaviour of the entire vehicle. The global model was validated using the results of properly made experimental tests. A real driving cycle in real-time experiment was performed and subsequently the same driving cycle was simulated on MATLAB/Simulink to validate the model.