Essay On Solar Bike

The aim of the project is to design a scooter with renewable solar energy. Solar Bike aims to be a small research and development business that develops renewable technology and helps everyone start riding electric bicycles around rather than using their cars. We firmly believe that using solar powered bicycles is one of the best methods of reducing our dependence on fossil fuels and minimizing environmental damage caused by carbon dioxide emissions.

A solar panel is a flat rectangular shaped device, typically somewhere between the size of a radiator and the size of a door, made up of many individual photovoltaic energy collectors called solar cells covered with a sheet of glass on its surface. The cells, each of which is about the size of a palm of an adult, are usually octagonal in shape and colored bluish black. Similar to the cells in a battery, the cells inside a solar panel are designed to generate electricity; but where a battery's cells make electricity from chemicals, a solar panel's cells produce power by capturing sunlight instead. They are sometimes called photovoltaic cells because they use sunlight ("photo" comes from the Greek word for light) to make electricity (the word "voltaic" is a reference to electricity pioneer Alessandro Volta).

In this project we are going to use solar panel and DC hub motor. The voltage generated by the solar panel is stored in battery (48V/20AH) through charging circuit. From the battery, power will be supplied to the DC hub motor (48V/200W) through accelerator followed by gate switch. The purpose of gate switch is when break is applied then automatically it opens the connection between motor and accelerometer.

The wheel hub motor is an electric motor that is incorporated into the hub of...

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The electricity generated by the solar cell panel is stored during the day with the help of storage batteries which give us only DC i.e, Direct Current. But in order to operate our devices we need alternating current. Therefore we need to initiate the conversion from convert before using any appliance using inverter.

Periodic Monitoring and Maintenance is required.

A drastic environmental change cannot be tolerated by the equipment.

The entire process of manufacture is still very expensive as silver is used for interconnection of these cells in the solar panel, which is a very expensive metal.

A practical problem linked with the use of solar cell panels is regarding the storage of electricity general by them.

The conversion of DC to AC uses inverter before using any appliance and thus it increases the cost of such solar panels as the sources of electricity.