A General-Purpose Control Strategy for Multi-Motor EV Equipped with Fuel Cell and Battery

In recent years, due to de-carbonization necessities, many interesting innovations and solutions emerged, deeply impacting the mobility sector. From hybrid to full electric vehicles, from solar powered and fully electric planes, ships and micro-mobility solutions, electricity is revolutionizing the way through which people and goods move. Lately, the possibility to fit multiple energy storage systems in a road vehicle gained widespread interest among the research community and the mobility industry. This paper presents an online energy management strategy for a hybrid battery-fuel cell multi-motor electric vehicle for the context of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Motor Vehicle Challenge 2023. The adopted solution mainly focuses on the handling of the two energy storage systems of the car, aiming for efficiency and vehicle range maximization.