The main aim of the project is to design a hybrid electric vehicle using multifunctional power electronic sources to charge EV battery. This system consists of solar, wind, dynamo, mains sources is uses to charge the EV battery. Solar and wind energies are renewable energy is energy derived from natural sources that are replenished at a higher rate than they are consumed.   The project makes use of a wind turbine, a dynamo and solar panels. The combined energy obtained from non renewable resources is stored to a battery through charging circuit. The battery supply is fed to DC motors for vehicle movement controlled by the user through switches. Solar, wind, dynamo and battery are connected to the microcontroller through voltage sensors to measure the voltages. This measured voltage will be display on LCD as well as these values upload into the thingspeak cloud along with date and time using ESP8266 WI-FI module. To achieve this task microcontroller loaded program written in embedded C language.          

Features of this project:  

1. Storing wind, dynamo and solar energy into the rechargeable battery.
2. Stored energy is used for running the EV vehicle.
3. Using THINGSPEAK API for data log.
4. Monitoring measured voltages on LCD display.
5. To achieve this task using PIC Microcontroller.

             

The major building blocks of this project are:  

1. Wind turbine.
2. Solar panel.
3. Dynmo.
4. Charging circuits.
5. Voltage sensors.
6. Buttons.
7. PIC Microcontroller.
8. DC Motors.
9. ESP8266 WI-FI module.
10. Voltage sensors.
11. LCD display.
12. Crystal oscillator.
13. Reset button.
14. LED indicator.
15. Robot chassis.

                 

Software’s used:

• PIC-C compiler for Embedded C programming.
• PIC kit 2 programmer for dumping code into Micro controller.
• Express SCH for Circuit design.

             

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