Hybrid wind/electric powered vehicle

Author

Atieh, Ahmad ; Al Sharif, Samir ; Mohammed, Kadri ; Alnakhli, Mahdi

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng. Dept., Taibah Univ., Medina, Saudi Arabia

fYear

2014

fDate

25-27 March 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Hybrid wind/electric powered vehicle is built and demonstrated. The vehicle uses bank of batteries to drive it. The batteries drive 3-phase brushless DC motor which moves the vehicle. The motor can rotate up to 2900 revolution per minute (RPM) at 3HP. A wind turbine; that is mounted at 1.5m on the vehicle, uses wind energy to generate electricity and charges the battery bank. A smart charging subsystem is proposed to enable efficient charging of the batteries. The minimum required wind speed to enable battery charging is found to be around 200 RPM.

Keywords

battery powered vehicles; brushless DC motors; hybrid electric vehicles; wind power; wind turbines; 3-phase brushless DC motor; battery bank charging; distance 1.5 m; hybrid wind/electric powered vehicle; smart charging subsystem; wind energy; wind speed; wind turbine; Batteries; Blades; DC motors; Vehicles; Wind energy; Wind speed; Wind turbines; DC operated motor; hybrid wind/electric vehicle; smart charging subsystem; wind energy; wind turbine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Renewable Energy Congress (IREC), 2014 5th International

Conference_Location

Hammamet

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2196-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IREC.2014.6826914

Filename

6826914