Electric vehicles were first developed way back in 1830s and became quite popular in 1910s. However, with the massive discovery of the crude oil in Texas and with the rapid development of IC engine vehicles, the EV disappeared due to its limited capac...
Electric vehicles were first developed way back in 1830s and became quite popular in 1910s. However, with the massive discovery of the crude oil in Texas and with the rapid development of IC engine vehicles, the EV disappeared due to its limited capacity of electric energy storage. As shown in the history, the main issue with the successful deployment of the EV is heavily related to the battery technology especially for its power and energy densities. In this paper, a battery test system is introduced. The test system is developed from scratch using a LabVIEW from National Instruments with appropriate hardware. The current test system is designed to accomodate electrical discharge and charge power profile derived from a specific driving cycle with a specific vehicle type. In other words, power profile can be chased every second to follow the vehicle driving cycle. With this setup, it is fully expected to evaluate batteries with load profiles under realistic driving conditions. Furthermore, it is also expected to test the battery to investigate the aging characterics under the realistic load conditions.