Design and Fabrication of Solar Assisted Bicycle

Electrical Engineering

There are many types of bicycle in the world such as normal bicycle that people need to paddle for it to move, motorized bicycle that uses fuel as its prime power and electric bicycle that can only be sufficient for an hour. Because of some weaknesses in the existence system, the idea of a solar bicycle came in mind.As we all know the fuel prices especially the petrol is rising steadily day by day. Again the pollution due to vehicles in metro cities & urban areas is increasing continuously.The idea is to make the bicycle last longer and can be automatically recharge when the bicycle is not in use by the renewable solar energy. The concept of the solar energy is that high torque motor will be put on the bicycle which will be generated by the solar energy.Keeping this in mind, a search for some way to cater these economically poor people as well as to provide a solution for environmental pollution was in progress. The solar assisted bicycle developed is driven by DC motor fitted in front or rear axle housing & operated by solar energy. When the bicycle is idle, the solar panel will charge the battery.

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