State of the Art and Trends in Vehicle Concept Development with Focus on Battery Technology

Kurzfassung

The German Aerospace Center’s (DLR) Institute of Vehicle Concepts (Stuttgart, Germany) is carrying out an in-depth monitoring of key technologies in the field of electric mobility. Besides the state-of-the-art, also international trends in vehicle concept as well as key technology development are part of the analysis. Thus, an extensive vehicle concept database is being designed to investigate all electrified passenger cars and technologies used over the last 10 years. Besides series Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV), Range Extended Electric Vehicles (REEV) and Battery Electric vehicles (BEV), also concept cars, design studies and close-to-production prototype vehicles are investigated, focusing on market- and technology-based parameters.