A generalized approach to design the electrical power system of a solar electric vehicle

This paper presents the Electric Power System design and development of an electric solar vehicle. The power system extracts energy from solar panels through solar charge controllers with embedded MPPT while controlling the charge of battery. The BLDC motor is connected to the battery bus via power board containing the 6 N-channel MOSFETs whose operations are controlled by the central control unit which takes signal from manual input from driver. The project design proposed shows the general design architecture followed by specific approach which includes the work of Eco-kart team of MANIT and SEV team of different universities [16]. This project design can be implemented to obtain the maximum performance output, which means efficient transmission of the available energy, the central control unit and power generation system are designed accordingly focusing on the fault tolerance mechanism.