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To fulfil the CO2 emission reduction targets of the European Union (EU), heavy-duty (HD) trucks need to operate 15% more efficiently by 2025 and 30% by 2030. Their electrification is necessary as conventional HD trucks are already optimized for the long-haul application. The resulting hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) truck gains most of the fuel saving potential by the recuperation of potential energy and its consecutive utilization. The key to utilizing the full potential of HEV-HD trucks is to maximize the amount of recuperated energy and ensure its intelligent usage while keeping the operating point of the internal combustion engine as efficient as possible. To achieve this goal, an intelligent energy management strategy (EMS) based on ECMS is developed for a parallel HEV-HD truck which uses predictive discharge of the battery and adaptive operating strategy regarding the height profile and the vehicle mass. The presented EMS can reproduce the global optimal operating strategy over long phases and lead to a fuel saving potential of up to 2% compared with a heuristic strategy. Furthermore, the fuel saving potential is correlated with the investigated boundary conditions to deepen the understanding of the impact of intelligent EMS for HEV-HD trucks.

Aiming at the problems inherent in the traditional fuzzy energy management strategy (F-EMS), such as poor adaptive ability and lack of self-learning, a neural network fuzzy energy management strategy (NNF-EMS) for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) based on driving cycle recognition (DCR) is designed. The DCR was realized by the method of neural network sample learning and characteristic parameter analysis, and the recognition results were considered as the reference input of the fuzzy controller with further optimization of the membership function, resulting in improvement in the poor pertinence of F-EMS driving cycles. The research results show that the proposed NNF-EMS can realize the adaptive optimization of fuzzy membership function and fuzzy rules under different driving cycles. Therefore, the proposed NNF-EMS has strong robustness and practicability under different driving cycles.