Renewable energy based automatic recharging mechanism for full electric vehicle

Abstract

This paper describes the hybrid renewable sources, for instance, the wind generator and the photovoltaic modules utilized to produce power to recharge the electric vehicles (EVs) storage system automatically. The current recharging mechanism of EVs requires recharging stations and it will affect the travelling distance for a long travel. This paper presents an automated charging mechanism (ACM) automatically recharges the battery packs, therefore, no need to wait for recharging EVs thereby increases the traveling distance. The proposed ACM is developed using MATLAB-Simulink model. The output voltage of the wind turbine is measured for three dissimilar speed scenarios. The performance of the solar photovoltaic had undergone different irradiance levels in the analysis. A series of studies have been carried out for the developed model of ACM under different load conditions. The total harmonic distortion (THD) of both the output current and voltage, efficiency, and the coverage distance of the vehicle has been studied. For illustrating the capability of ACM it is compared with commercial charging mechanism including different EV brands. The simulation result indicates that the performance of ACM is satisfactory for recharging the batteries of EVs without involving recharging stations. Automatic recharging of EV increases the usage of EVs thereby immensely reduce the fossil fuel vehicles as a result greatly reduced CO2 and CO-related emissions. Therefore the authors strongly believe that the method proposed decreases the complete travel time and as well as in increased EVs usage.

Keywords

• Full electric vehicle
• Renewable energy sources
• Solar power
• Wind energy
• Recharging station