Increasing Adoption of Electric and Electric Hybrid Vehicles through Consumer Relevant Powertrain Improvements and Characterization

混合动力汽车(HEV)、插电式HEV(PHEV)和电池或纯电动汽车(BEV)等形式的汽车日益电气化有许多积极的原因。不幸的是，出于实用、政策和行为上的原因，电动汽车的销量通常处于较低至中等水平。电动汽车的所有优点和缺点的核心是汽车电池。许多电池研究已经存在并仍在继续，但主要是在细胞和实验室层面。在模块(多个电池)和封装(多个模块)层面上的研究要少得多，而且由于商业竞争的原因，许多现有的东西往往在行业内保密。文献中一个明显不足的领域是关于车辆电池组的内部温度和寿命退化行为，以及它对基于电动汽车模型的设计的影响。第二个文献的不足是有效的方法来说服汽车消费者相信电动汽车的好处。*该研究计划的总体目标是在技术和消费者意愿方面推动混合动力汽车(HEV)、插电式混合动力汽车(PHEV)、纯电动或电池电动汽车(BEV)的动力总成，以推动社会更接近可持续的交通未来。具体地说，这项研究计划专注于(I)通过了解汽车电池的热特性和退化来了解和提高汽车电池的寿命和利用率，以及(Ii)开发一种方法，通过开发移动有毒排放多路径人体健康风险评估框架来增加公众对增加车辆电气化的支持。*为探索基金提出的研究计划主要面临三个挑战：第一个挑战填补了文献和研究工具中的空白，因为它试图将申请人最近基于物理的三维多层电池袋热模拟扩展到包括退化，并扩大到车用电池模块和电池组。第二个挑战解决了消费者电池保修后的需求，通过通过实验更好地了解汽车电池的退化，并将这种理解转化为旨在延长电池寿命的PHEV控制优化策略，从而支持新兴的汽车电池二次使用行业。第三个挑战将帮助车辆购买消费者、城市交通规划者和政府决策者，通过创建一种新颖的、范式转换的、移动的有毒排放人类健康风险评估，寻求通过个性化的方式向下提供车辆排放的信息，包括驾驶的车辆、驾驶路线以及生活和工作地点。

There are many positive reasons for the ever increasing electrification of vehicles in the form of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), plug-in HEVs (PHEVs), and battery or pure electric vehicles (BEVs). Unfortunately, for pragmatic, policy, and behavioural reasons electrified vehicles sales are generally low to moderate. At the centre of all electrified vehicle benefits and drawbacks is the vehicle battery. Much battery research exists and continues but mostly at the cell and lab level. At the module (multiple cells) and pack (multiple modules) level the research is far less, and much of what does exists tends to remain confidential within industry for business competition reasons. One clearly deficient area in the literature is with regards to vehicle battery pack' internal temperature and lifetime degradation behaviour, and its impact on electrified vehicle model-based design. A second literature deficiency is effective approaches to convincing the vehicle consumer on the benefits of electrified vehicles.******The overall objective of this research program is to advance, both technically and consumer desirability wise, hybrid electric vehicle's (HEVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicle's (PHEVs), pure electric or battery electric vehicle's (BEVs) powertrains in order to move society closer to a sustainable transportation future. Specifically, this research program focusses (i) on understanding and improving vehicle battery life and utilization through understanding vehicle battery thermal characteristics and degradation, and (ii) on developing a method to increase public support for increasing the electrification of vehicles through the development of a mobile toxic emissions multi-pathway human health risk assessment framework.******There are three research program main challenges proposed for Discovery Grant funding: The first challenge fills a void in the literature and research tools as it seeks to extend the applicant's recently productive physics-based 3-D multi-layered battery pouch thermal modelling to include degradation, and up-sized to vehicle battery modules and packs. The second challenge addresses post battery warranty needs of the consumer and supports the emerging vehicle battery second-use industry by better understanding vehicle battery degradation through experiments and transferring this understanding to PHEV control optimization strategies geared towards extending battery life, and correspondingly second-use value. The third challenge will assist vehicle purchasing consumers, city traffic planners, and government decision makers by creating a novel, paradigm shifting, mobile toxic emissions human health risk assessment that seeks to inform, by personalizing, vehicle emissions down to the vehicle one drives, the driving routes one takes, and where one lives and works.