Design and Comparison of Vehicle Mounted Wind Turbines

Abstract

Electric vehicles (EVs) are gradually taking place of the conventional fossil fuel-based vehicles. However, popularity of EVs is hindered due to longer charging time and lower mileage. To address the mileage issue, in this paper we have proposed to use wind turbines to be mounted on vehicle, so that it can harness the wind energy to charge the batteries while the vehicle is in motion. We have designed two types of wind turbines: horizontal axis and vertical axis turbines and our analysis showed that vertical axis turbines provide better solution in extracting maximum wind power.