The Impact of Real Driving on Electric Vehicle Energy Consumption

On-road driving of an electric vehicle is characterized by a diversity of driving styles, ambient conditions, and altitude variations, consequently, is expected to have a different energy consumption, in respect to that obtained when using usual test cycles. The aim of this paper is to investigate the influence of on-road (real) driving on the energy consumption of an electric driven passenger car. The research is done by means of modelling and simulation in LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim software environment. On-road recordings were made on a C-class passenger car to obtain the model inputs. The recorded trips are first postprocessed using MATLAB to implement the EU real driving calculation procedures to separate the urban, rural and motorway driving segments and to compute the driving dynamics indicators that are used to check the cycles dispersion.