Customise Electrical Cars

The project is exploring how electric vehicles can be customized to cost-effectively meet an individual's specific commuting needs and how an electric vehicle's efficiency can be boosted and its battery life extended by using artificial intelligence to manage power.

Our first steps into doing this is to first analyze the needs, conditions and habits of the daily commutes of actual people and then using this information to develop electric vehicles suited to each unique commute.

Artificial intelligence which is called a supercapacitor is use to manage the flow of power between conventional electric car batteries. It has unusually high energy density and it can store and rapidly release large amounts of electrical power, a supercapacitor can serve as a buffer between the battery pack and the vehicle's electric motors, improving the vehicle's responsiveness while reducing the charge/discharge cycling that shortens battery life.

Based on a driver's route and habits, the smart power management system will decide whether to draw power for the electric motors from the batteries or the supercapacitor and decide where to store electricity produced by the regenerative braking system as the car slows down or goes down a hill."

The new car will learn to Determine the optimal means of managing. The number one cost of electric vehicle ownership is the batteries," Nourbakhsh said. "Smart power management will save money initially because it pairs a low-cost battery pack with a small supercapacitor. And it will continue to save money by increasing efficiency and extending battery life." By customizing each vehicle to the owner's specific commute, ChargeCar will save money for some owners by allowing them to purchase the minimum number of batteries necessary.

Article reference http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091116103451.htm

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