Solar Charger for Electric Vehicles

Our dependence on fossil fuels is drastically reduced by the combined use of solar energy and Electric Vehicle (EV) charging. In this paper, a solar charger for electric vehicle is designed and developed. A dc-dc boost converter is employed to boost the solar panel voltage to station battery voltage and Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) is done to optimize the output from solar panel. A buck converter is used to step down the station battery voltage to electric vehicle battery voltage. The constant voltage and constant current methods of charging are used to charge the vehicle battery. A complete simulation study of the system is carried out in the SIMULINK environment of MATLAB.