Summary of Major Accomplishments: Chrysler developed a PHEV minivan as part of a DOE contract to develop a production-ready PHEV prototype. Although conventional certification tests were conducted by Chrysler during their development, Argonne was brought in at the end of the development project to run their research-oriented benchmark testing on one of the prototype vehicles. Here are the accomplishments: Prototype vehicle was instrumented by removing some panels and installing voltage and current probes
Other signals such as temperature and setting up CAN network data collection
42 drive cycle tests were run on the 4WD chassis dynamometer, in both CD and CS modes over UDDS, US06, HWY, SC03 cycles, and research cycles including steady-state