Design and Simulation of On-board Solar PV powered Electric Vehicle integrated with Battery Energy Storage System

Electric Vehicles are becoming world’s primary modes of transportation for minimizing operating costs, reducing reliance on fossil fuels, lowering carbon emissions, and enhancing public health and urban air quality. Electric Vehicles are facing the major problems of limited battery range, battery life, charging stations and long charging times. This research work proposes an installation of Solar PV array on EV’s rooftop integrating with Battery Energy Storage System to power the drive of an Electric Vehicle to reduce the charging and discharging cycles of the battery and enhancing the battery life. The solar PV panels are fixed onto the body of vehicle so as to be exposed to the Sun light. The electric power generated by PV cells is directly fed to the DC drive during daytime while the vehicle is moving and batteries are charged during daytime while the vehicle is parked.