Investigation of powertrains in hybrid vehicles 2020-36-0137

Emerging technologies are making hybrid vehicles more popular in today’s world, in which sustainability and reduced carbon emissions are primary development requisites. These vehicles satisfy these demands by combining an internal combustion engine with an electric motor, together providing the power needed for movement to happen. Understanding how the power from each source is combined and used is the basis to select the combustion engine and the electric motor. Moreover, its advantages relative to a combustion-only vehicle can be compared. In this paper we investigate the powertrain of different types of hybrid vehicles. They are compared to combustion-only vehicles regarding engine size and transmission systems, as well as fuel consumption. This study provides an understanding of how hybridization affects the design parameters of the powertrain and its impacts on the future of mobility.