Lead-free solders for solar and electric vehicles - Reflections on The Bridgestone World Solar Challenge 2013 in “Arrow1”

Author

Nogita, Kazuhiro ; Kennedy, Jessie ; Amsler, John ; Greaves, Mark ; Tuesley, Cameron ; Nishimura, T.

Author_Institution

TeamArrow Solar Car Team, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

fYear

2014

fDate

23-25 April 2014

Firstpage

10

Lastpage

13

Abstract

Solar and electric vehicles offer a sustainable future for the automotive industry and demonstration events offer realistic conditions to test and demonstrate the technology involved. We produced a four wheel solar car “Arrow1” by adopting a variety of appropriate technologies. These include the use of a lead-free solder alloy (Sn-Cu-Ni-Ge) in connections of the electric circuit boards of controllers, terminals of lithium-ion batteries and cable ends for the motor. This paper reports on the team´s participation in the largest solar car race, The Bridgestone World Solar Challenge 2013, from Darwin to Adelaide, Australia in mid October 2013.

Keywords

brushless DC motors; copper alloys; germanium alloys; nickel alloys; printed circuits; solar powered vehicles; solders; tin alloys; Arrow1; Bridgestone World Solar Challenge 2013; Sn-Cu-Ni-Ge; automotive industry; cable ends; controllers; demonstration events; electric circuit boards; electric vehicles; four wheel solar car; lead-free solder alloy; lithium-ion batteries; solar car race; solar vehicles; Australia; Brushless motors; Educational institutions; Induction motors; Lead; Permanent magnet motors; Vehicles; Pb-free solders; electric vehicles; solar car;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics Packaging (ICEP), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Toyama

Print_ISBN

978-4-904090-10-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEP.2014.6826652

Filename

6826652