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1770 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY, VOL. 48, NO. 6, NOVEMBER 1999 A Matlab-Based Modeling and Simulation Package for Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicle Design Karen L. Butler, Member, IEEE, Mehrdad Ehsani, Fellow, IEEE, Preyas Kamath, Member, IEEE Abstract— This paper discusses a simulation and modeling used to improve energy efficiency and vehicle emissions while package developed at Texas AM University, V-Elph 2.01. V- the ICE provides extended range capability. Though many Elph facilitates in-depth studies of electric vehicle (EV) and different arrangements of power sources and converters are hybrid EV (HEV) configurations or energy management strate- gies through visual programming by creating components as possible in a hybrid power plant, the two generally accepted hierarchical subsystems that can be used interchangeably as classifications are series and parallel [3]. embedded systems. V-Elph is composed of detailed models of four Computer modeling and simulation can be used to reduce major types of components: electric motors, internal combustion the expense and length of the design cycle of hybrid vehicles engines, batteries, and support components that can be integrated by testing configurations and energy management strategies to model and simulate drive trains having all electric, series hybrid, and parallel hybrid configurations. V-Elph was written before prototype construction begins. Interest in hybrid vehicle in the Matlab/Simulink graphical simulation language and is simulation grew in the 1970’s with the development of several portable to most computer platforms. prototypes that we