Battery Electric Vehicle Model in Simscape

A Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) model in Simscape for longitudinal powertrain analysis

This is a MATLAB Project containing a Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) model and its components such as motor, high voltage battery, and longitudinal vehicle. This project demonstrates Simscape's modular and multi-fidelity modeling technology.

FTP-75 drive cycle simulation

Use BEV Project Navigator App to quickly access some key files and tools.

Use Vehicle1D Performance Design App to design the basic performance parameters of a road vehicle.

Use Motor Drive Unit Efficiency App for System Thermal Model to understand how the model parameters are affecting the motor efficiency.

Use Motor Drive Unit App to select model and run simulation for the Motor Drive Unit.

The BEV model is built in a simple and modular fashion, and it can run faster than real-time. It is suitable as a baseline model for drive cycle simulation to estimate vehicle's electrical efficiency and other vehicle-level information.

This project also contains the model of a detailed permanent magnet synchronous motor and controller. It runs slower than real-time, but it captures the detailed behaviors of the AC motor drive unit and can estimate the electrical efficiency at the unit level.

A Live Script for a detailed motor drive unit demonstrates how to obtain the electrical efficiency from the detailed motor drive unit and use the result as the block parameter of the abstract motor drive block in the BEV model.

Use the Download button to get the latest version for MATLAB R2025a

Zip archive of version 2.5.1 for MATLAB R2024b

Zip archive of version 2.3.3 for MATLAB R2024a

Zip archive of version 2.2.2 for MATLAB R2023b

Zip archive of version 2.1.2 for MATLAB R2023a

Zip archive of version 2.0.1 for MATLAB R2022b

Zip archive of version 1.2.2 for MATLAB R2022a (and R2022b)

Zip archive of version 1.1.1 for MATLAB R2020b, R2021a, and R2021b

Main Live Script for BEV model

This script shows an example workflow to programmatically open model, run simulation, collect simulation data, visualize result, save data to text-format file, read saved data file, and analyze.

• View the HTML version of the Live Script

Try with Git Source Control

If you download a zip file of this project, the project does not include Git Source Control data. To add Git to it, read Using MATLAB Project page.

Try in MATLAB Online

You can use this project in MATLAB Online.

Go to MATLAB Online page: https://matlab.mathworks.com/

Click "Open MATLAB Online" to start a MATLAB session in the browser.

In MATLAB Online, select the HOME tab and click "Add-Ons" in the toolstrip. Add-On Explorer window will open. In Add-On Explorer, search "Battery Electric Vehicle in Simscape" and follow navigations. If it is already installed, you will see the "Installed" badge in the search result.

Once you installed, the project can be found in MATLAB at

• /MATLAB Add-Ons/Collections/Battery Electric Vehicle Model in Simscape

To open the project, in the Files window of MATLAB Online, click the BatteryElectricVehicle.prj file.