Design and Realisation of a Low Cost Solar PV Incorporated Electric Vehicle for Parking Premises

Renewable energy resources are clear, secure, efficient, green, emission free which has greater impact on environmental cleanliness. Electric Vehicles (EVs) plays a very vital role in low carbon society as it has no tail pipe emission and its independency on crude oil. However, EV technology with battery has faced many challenges till date that includes the usage and charging of battery from green-cum-clean resources. The charging cost of the vehicle has also been hiked at a greater pace. In this paper, a domestic PV based prototype charge station has been designed and developed which is found to be reliable and cost effective for a long term basis. A 1kW charge station has been modeled, simulated and validated in MATLAB/Simulink environment and the results are discussed.