Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Dicle Üniversitesi Mühendislik Fakültesi Mühendislik Dergisi, cilt.16, sa.4, ss.889-900, 2025 (TRDizin)
The transition from internal combustion engine vehicles to electric alternatives has become essential to reduce carbon emissions, improve air quality, and mitigate noise pollution, particularly in urban environments. Heavy-duty vehicles, and especially garbage trucks, exhibit highly inefficient operation under low-speed driving cycles, making electrification an urgent requirement. In this context, sodium-ion batteries are investigated as an alternative to lithium-ion batteries for electric heavy-duty vehicle applications. Owing to their advantages in terms of cost, resource availability, environmental sustainability, safety, and thermal stability, sodium-ion batteries have gained growing attention in recent years. This study focuses on the design and performance evaluation of modular sodium-ion battery packs for an electric garbage truck operating at an 800 V voltage level. Within the scope of the research, battery pack configurations were analyzed with respect to energy and power requirements, module topology, equivalent resistance, and system efficiency. The proposed design framework demonstrates the technical feasibility of integrating sodium-ion batteries into heavy-duty electric vehicles and provides a comparative perspective on their potential to complement or replace lithium-ion chemistry in future transportation systems.