RF Controlled Wind Energy Powered Vehicle

Abstract

Abstract: An electric powered vehicle has a bank of batteries that runs the entire vehicle. This work focuses on charging the batteries of the vehicle on the run. This is done by capturing the wind that acts opposite of a moving car. There is always the flow of wind as long the cars moves with a speed. A wind turbine is mounted on the front of the vehicle to receive wind. The generator produces electricity from the wind and stores them in another battery. The vehicle moves with the pre-charged battery and a voltage sensing circuit is placed on one or more batteries of the vehicle to detect the drop in voltage. In such case the reservoir battery that gets charged through wind switches the position with the low voltage battery and continues to run the vehicle while the other battery gets charged. This process can go on until the vehicle comes to stationary. While one of the limitations of the electric vehicles is their short travel range compared to their excessive charging time. The travel range can be extended by charging the battery on the motion. This paper mainly focuses on the design of the wind powered car and to determine the power required for driving the system.