Solar Powered Integrated Electric Vehicle

This paper presents software and hardware development of controller for solar powered electric vehicle. The proposed system consists of solar panel, battery bank, charge controller, ultra capacitor, bi-directional DC/DC converter and DC series motor. Here PWM technique is used to control speed of the DC series motor. The DC source is a set of lead-acid batteries and ultra capacitor which are charged by solar PV panels. The solar charge controller charges the lead acid battery (with rated voltage of 12V) and Ultracapacitors (UC) for Integrated Electric Vehicle applications. Using the Integrated energy source UC and battery and with a proper energy management improves the INTEGRATED performances. The battery and Ultra capacitors are coupled to DC-bus using buck-boost converters. Ultra capacitors have low energy density but it’s have property of quick charge, large power density, and long cycle life. MATLAB Simulation result and practical hardware results are discussed.