With the rapid development of Formula Student competitions, higher demands are being placed on the vehicle performance of race cars. To further enhance vehicle performance, this study investigates the optimization of three key indicators: maximum speed, 0–100 km/h acceleration time, and energy consumption under the NEDC driving cycle. First, a vehicle physical model was established on the AVL CRUISE 2019 R2 platform based on the vehicle parameters, and corresponding simulation tasks were configured. Meanwhile, a numerical model was developed in MATLAB R2022a and validated by comparing the predicted maximum speed, acceleration time, and energy consumption with the CRUISE simulation results. On this basis, a genetic algorithm was employed to optimize the battery pack parallel number and the total reduction ratio so as to improve the vehicle performance. The optimized parameters were then re-imported into the CRUISE model for further simulation verification. The results indicate that, compared with the original configuration, the optimized scheme leads to a slight increase in acceleration time, while significantly improving the maximum speed and reducing the energy consumption under the NEDC cycle. Overall, the proposed optimization method effectively enhances the vehicle performance of the Formula Student electric race car.
Ren et al. (2026) studied this question.