Improving Electric Vehicle Performance Using Photovoltaic Cells

Abstract

Nowadays, the new trend in automotive industry is the transfer to electric vehicles due to many advantages such as no noise, no pollution, saving energy and reducing carbon dioxide emissions and it is a power-driven vehicle with a motor drive wheels moving. Solar electric vehicle reduces the green-house gas emissions and other pollutants. This paper presents the results of measuring the range and performance of the Electric vehicles as an alternative solution for fossil fuels based on previous work. It also presents the same measured parameters for the photovoltaic cells. A comparison between the two models has been done. It demonstrates a dynamic model of an electric vehicle and photovoltaic cell using the SIMULINK in MATLAB program. It explains the method of changing the hybrid car model to electric car model. However, the second model was for the photovoltaic cell. It shows the behavior of the two models separately and combined together. The experimental work has been performed through a single seated vehicle equipped with an electric and photovoltaic cell also separately and combined together. A verification of the two models was made. The results showed that the performance of the photovoltaic model is better than the electric model. The working time of the vehicle equipped with a photovoltaic cell is enhanced by 25% of the electric vehicle.