Design and development of Wind Solar Energy Charging System for Electric Vehicle

Abstract

With severity in the emission level on the globe, there has been increase in the demand of methods for reducing the pollution level. Drastic change in the climate and its adverse effect has forced the researchers to explore new forms of energy. Abundant availability of wind and solar energy on globe became one of the alternative source of energy. Harnessing this form of energy as was convenient hence we started developing techniques to exploit the same. This article describes the wind and solar based energy charging system (WSCS) to enable charging the battery bank of electric vehicles (EVs). The charging mechanism comprises of both a wind generator and the solar panel (PV) modules. The WSCS reduces to a great extent the use of fossil fuels to produce electricity; hence reducing COX and NOX emission. As electric vehicle have come up and will be the next generation transportation system hence the emission will also get reduced. To encourage the use of electric vehicles the range of the vehicle has to be more. In order to have greater range there are two ways. One the capacity of the battery can be increased or the charging duration and the charging stations have to increase in number. This paper deals with the development of mechanism to efficiently charge the vehicle with minimizing the emission. The prototype developed in a combination of both solar and wind system i.e. a hybrid system.