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Everything about Powertrain
System that powers a motor vehicle
In a motor vehicle, the powertrain comprises the main components that generate power and deliver that power to the road surface, rails, water, or air. This includes the engine, transmission, drive shafts, differentials, and the final drive. Hybrid powertrains also include one or more electric traction motors that operate to drive the vehicle wheels. All-electric vehicles eliminate the engine altogether, relying solely on electric motors for propulsion. Occasionally the term powerplant is casually used to refer to the engine or, less often, the entire powertrain. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: PowertrainA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Flying Cars and eVTOLs—Technology Advancements, Powertrain Architectures, and DesignInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Sport Compact Car Engine & Driveline HandbookThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: ADVISOR 2.1: a user-friendly advanced powertrain simulation using a combined backward/forward approachCited 561 times
- Go sideways: DrivetrainA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Hybrid vehicle drivetrainA closely related topic
đź“– Definitions
Noun The group of components in a vehicle that generate power and deliver it to the road surface, water, or air.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
ADVISOR 2.1: a user-friendly advanced powertrain simulation using a combined backward/forward approach
A comprehensive overview of hybrid electric vehicle: Powertrain configurations, powertrain control techniques and electronic control units
Creep Resistant Magnesium Alloys for Powertrain Applications
A Review of Heavy-Duty Vehicle Powertrain Technologies: Diesel Engine Vehicles, Battery Electric Vehicles, and Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles
Control of a Parallel Hybrid Powertrain: Optimal Control
Quantifying EV battery end-of-life through analysis of travel needs with vehicle powertrain models
A survey of powertrain configuration studies on hybrid electric vehicles
Automotive Powertrain Modeling for Control
🆕 Influential since 2022
Flying Cars and eVTOLs—Technology Advancements, Powertrain Architectures, and Design
A review of architectures and control strategies of dual-motor coupling powertrain systems for battery electric vehicles
Battery Optimal Sizing Under a Synergistic Framework With DQN-Based Power Managements for the Fuel Cell Hybrid Powertrain
Twin delayed deep deterministic policy gradient-based deep reinforcement learning for energy management of fuel cell vehicle integrating durability information of powertrain
Energy management strategy for fuel cell vehicles via soft actor-critic-based deep reinforcement learning considering powertrain thermal and durability characteristics
đź“š Books worth reading
Sport Compact Car Engine & Driveline HandbookThe Editors of Sport Compact Car Magazine · 2003
Hillier's fundamentals of automotive electronicsV. A. W. Hillier, Peter Coombes · 2006
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