A Strategy to Combine Two Battery Packs to Extend the Driving Range of an Electric 2009 Saturn Vue
Open Access
Author:
Srinivasan, Aneesh Kumar
Area of Honors:
Electrical Engineering
Degree:
Bachelor of Science
Document Type:
Thesis
Thesis Supervisors:
Gary Neal, Thesis Supervisor Timothy Joseph Kane, Thesis Honors Advisor
Keywords:
electric vehicle battery extended driving range
Abstract:
There is a large-scale push towards adopting electric vehicles over combustion engine-based vehicles, with the world looking to tackle the climate change problem. Many countries have set a deadline to stop the sale of combustion engine vehicles. Norway is the earliest country to change its vehicle policy; by 2025, Norway will only be selling zero-emission cars. This thesis looks at a hybrid turned electric 2009 Chevrolet Saturn Vue with focusing on the high voltage circuitry to connect two high voltage battery packs, improving the overall driving range of the Vue. The additional battery chosen was an 18-kWh battery pack from a 2018 Chevrolet Volt. I hope future engineers can convert more combustion engine and hybrid-electric cars to electric cars and expand the driving range from this thesis's outcome.
