Today, we had a meeting with our technical advisor Prabhat Chand to present the idea for our project. Our concept is to design a regenerative charging system which harnesses the kinetic energy created by suspension oscillations to effectively charge a 12v auxiliary battery for an electric vehicle. This battery will be independent from the main drive module and will be used to power all of the auxiliaries of an electric vehicle. The system will also feature a AC generator and a converter. As result we expect to increase the main battery module capacity, therefore increasing vehicle mileage. We felt that this was an important topic seeing as the main issue with electric vehicles is their limited mileage, due to the limited battery capacity.
After discussing the topic, Prabhat suggested that we generalise our concept idea and target all types of vehicles rather than limiting the application to just electric vehicles. Furthermore he encouraged us to think critically and to approach this topic from an energy harnessing perspective rather than just generating electricity. We also went on to discuss the construction of the generator, the charging circuit, its components and various tests that may need to be conducted to back up our research and findings.
Generally, we are happy with the new concept and approach that we have gained from the discussion. Now, we need to research a bit more about energy harnessing and rewrite our contract. So far, our progress is going well as planned and we hope to get the contract signed by next week.
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