Electric go-kart with battery-ultracapacitor hybrid energy storage system

Author

Avelino, W.O. ; Garcia, F.S. ; Ferreira, Aida A. ; Pomilio, J.A.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

fYear

2013

fDate

16-19 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

An electric go-kart was designed and built. It uses a hybrid energy storage system composed of a battery and an ultracapacitor. To integrate the two energy storage devices, a multiple-input DC-DC converter was used to implement a control strategy that divides the power between them. The main objectives of using ultracapacitors in complement to batteries are: improving performance (i.e. acceleration), increase the system efficiency (including through the use of more regenerative braking) and extend the battery life. This paper presents the design of the electric go-kart and the experimental results obtained with the prototype.

Keywords

DC-DC power convertors; electric vehicles; secondary cells; supercapacitors; battery-ultracapacitor hybrid energy storage system; electric go-kart; energy storage device; multiple-input DC-DC converter; Acceleration; Batteries; Integrated circuit modeling; Power demand; Supercapacitors; Voltage control; Batteries; DC-DC Power Converters; Electric Vehicles; Supercapacitors; Ultracapacitors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Detroit, MI

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0146-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITEC.2013.6573499

Filename

6573499