Download or read book Design of the Architecture and Supervisory Control Strategy for a Parallel-series Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle written by Katherine Marie Bovee and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Increasingly stringent government regulations and the rising price of oil are causing automotive manufactures to develop vehicles capable of obtaining higher fuel economies and lower emissions. To achieve these goals, automotive manufactures have been developing hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) that use both electricity and petroleum based fuels as their power sources. The additional power the vehicle receives from the high voltage batteries and the electric machines allow automotive manufacturers to downsize the engine inside of the vehicle. Vehicles with smaller engines are able to obtain a higher overall fuel economy because the smaller engine is able to operate at its more efficient high load operating points more frequently.