Sunday, October 25, 2009

Research begins

My research has begun on researching methods to improve efficiency of Electric Vehicles. The idea is simple:

1) Increase efficiency, thus reducing operating costs.
2) Reduction in operating costs creates a more attractable, affordable project
3) Battery Electric Vehicles and Hybrid Electric vehicles increase in popularity, reducing our Country's need for oil imports and also reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions.

I will be researching current methods of power conversion, power switching, power transmission, motor characteristics, current transmission systems, power accessories, charging systems (plug-in, regenerative, and move-and-charge) and motor controllers to find sources of loss in electric vehicles' power output vs. power input.

1 comment:

  1. Hi
    How regenerative braking of the EV can be improved to increase the battery soc during braking?
    Currently many papers on regeneration are published but how to increase the soc or what novelty can be introduced? I need some inputs for my project...

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