Reduced Min-max Optimization for a Long Haulage Battery Powered Truck

This paper analyses the performance of long-haulage battery-powered trucks. The analysis is characterized as a special class of an optimal control problem with battery capacity as the main constraint and maximizing traveling distance as the desired goal. This multi-varied parameter problem is simplified systematically to solve a reduced form min-max optimization problem. Key results are the stalling conditions for uphill haulage and a methodology for maximum haulage formulation as well as reduction of the optimal control problem to a performance optimization under constraints problem.