Development of a linear alternator-engine for hybrid electric vehicle applications

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1797-1802

  Cawthorne, William R ^a   Famouri, Parviz ^a   Chen, Jingdong ^b   Clark, Nigel N ^a   McDaniel, Thomas I ^a   Atkinson, Richard J ^b   Nandkumar, Subhash ^a   Atkinson, Christopher M ^a   Petreanu, Sorin ^b  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

^b CATERPILLAR INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; SYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS;

AUXILIARY POWER UNIT (APU); HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLES (HEV); LINEAR ALTERNATORS; LINEAR ENGINES;

ELECTRIC VEHICLES;

EID: 0033340773     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/25.806772     Document Type: Article

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