1. A Comparative Analysis on the Lightweighting Effects of Electric Vehicles and Fuel Vehicles.
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Xu Jianquan, Yang Yanping, Tang Jie, Chen Yisong, and Yin Renshu
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COMPARATIVE studies , *AUTOMOBILE batteries , *FUEL cell vehicles , *ELECTRIC vehicles , *ELECTRIC motor buses - Abstract
The lightweighting effects of electric buses and fuel buses are comparatively analyzed. The results show that the energy saving effects of lightweighting for two kinds of buses have no obvious difference, but the lightweighting of electric buses has an additional benefit, i. e. the significant increase in driving range, and hence the reduction of battery replacement times, leading to lower cost of battery use. Therefore providing two kinds of buses spend the same cost in lightweighting and reduce the same amount of mass, the benefit of lightweighting for electric buses is higher than that for fuel buses. In current situation of high battery cost with key technologies remained to be broken through ,the lightweighting demands for electric vehicles are more urgent than fuel vehicles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012