{"id":11990,"date":"2025-03-10T11:17:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T15:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/student-lounge\/?p=11990"},"modified":"2025-03-10T11:17:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T15:17:54","slug":"pure-electric-or-hybrid-which-will-revolutionize-formula-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/student-lounge\/2025\/03\/10\/pure-electric-or-hybrid-which-will-revolutionize-formula-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Pure Electric or Hybrid: Which Will Revolutionize Formula Student?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Is pure electric or hybrid the future? This has been a topic of debate in the industry. Today, we invite Hao Zheng, a technical officer from the China Society of Automotive Engineers and the Formula Student China<\/a>, to share his insights on the design and simulation of hybrid electric cars for Formula Student competitions.<\/div>\n
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Hao Zheng (second from right in the above photo) graduated from Wuhan University of Technology. As a freshman, he joined the university’s formula student team and was responsible for designing the transmission and steering systems. For his undergraduate thesis, he researched energy management and vehicle power control strategies based on parallel hybrid systems, achieving excellent results at the university level. After graduation, he joined the China Society of Automotive Engineers as a technical officer for Formula Student China, responsible for team organization, technical document review, and international exchanges. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Table of Contents<\/span><\/div>\n
Pure Electric or Hybrid?
\n<\/a>Design and Simulation of Hybrid Formula Student Racing Cars
\n<\/a> Electric Drive and Transmission Design
\n<\/a> Control Strategy Design and Simulation
\n<\/a>Summary and Outlook<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Pure Electric or Hybrid?<\/h2>\n
The year 2024 is significant for China’s passenger cars. With advancements in electric drive technology, energy storage technology, and vehicle energy efficiency management, many automakers have launched new hybrid models and key technologies, marking a surge in hybrid technology development.<\/div>\n
Some view hybrid vehicles as a “compromise” technology representing “backwardness,” while pure electric vehicles are seen as the “future” of clean energy. However, current pure electric technology still faces significant challenges, such as charging speed, urban electricity capacity, and usage scenarios under all conditions. China’s energy strategy requires a diversified energy structure while achieving carbon peaking and carbon neutrality. It’s foreseeable that internal combustion engine technology will not disappear for a long time. Making internal combustion engines great again involves sustainable power solutions like hybrid technology and zero-carbon internal combustion engines.<\/div>\n
In various Formula Student competitions, hybrid rules have been gradually introduced:<\/div>\n