ABSTRACT
Being a green and sustainable transportation alternative to traditional auto-rickshaws powered by fossil fuels, e-rickshaws have attracted a lot of interest in altering the rural and urban mobility of India and most Asian nations. This chapter examines a cost-effective e-rickshaw design that uses a permanent magnet brushless direct current motor. The system consists of a 300W photovoltaic system, two converter circuits, and a 48V lithium-ion battery storage integrated with DC bus and a 1kW brushless direct current (BLDC) motor. The rickshaw is powered by a BLDC motor. With the goal of creating an environmentally friendly transportation model, regenerative braking technology is used. Regardless of climatic factors such as solar radiation and temperature, both the battery and solar energy ensure that the vehicle never runs out of energy. A 1kW BLDC motor driven by a voltage source inverter (VSI) provides the necessary counter-current generation. In this chapter, a solar-power-based battery-integrated e-rickshaw driven by a BLDC motor with regenerating technique is proposed. The simulation results created using MATLAB/Simulink tools show the performance of the photovoltaic array and BLDC motor. The validity of the proposed system is determined using a real-time digital simulator.
