Electric Multipurpose Vehicle Power Take-Off: Overview, Load Cycles and Actuation via Synchronous Reluctance Machine

While electric vehicle (EV) technology has been established in passenger vehicle sector, commercial multipurpose vehicle (MPV) penetration is strictly related to the niche end-markets, like medium-duty, short-haul and last mile applications. Some of the examples of short-haul applications are electric multipurpose vehicles (eMPV) like refuse, hook-loader or vacuum trucks. This paper will concentrate on eMPVs, which apart from electric traction, have to actuate additional body systems by the means of electric power take-off (ePTO). This paper provides load cycle approximations of ePTO load cycles (refuse, concrete mixer, hook-loader and vacuum trucks). These can be used for continuous and peak requirement calculation and optimal ePTO machine sizing. Taking into consideration that the machine needs to be affordable and reliable, synchronous reluctance machine (SyRM) ePTO is proposed for future evaluation.