Electric Car Voltage Monitoring System

Najmi Azfar, Mohd Rosli (2009) Electric Car Voltage Monitoring System. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

The automobile industry continues to grow by leaps and bounds, and due to the increase in the number of vehicles worldwide, air-pollution continues to increase. Though the automobile manufacturers have reduced the emission of greenhouse gases such as hydro-carbons, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide etc., from the vehicles, they cannot produce a zero-emission friendly vehicle unless they produce an electric vehicle (EV). Furthermore, because of the short of fuel resources, people have been thinking to use an electric car as an alternative vehicle. An electric car needs an efficient and reliable voltage monitoring system to prevent breakdown and flat battery. The monitoring system should be user-friendly and able to do precise monitoring. A main objective of this project is to design and develop the low cost digital voltmeter by using Microchip PIC Microcontroller. There are 4 phases of methodology to complete this project which are literature review, PIC source code development, hardware development and write thesis. The expected result of this project is the circuit will be able to measure and display the remaining voltage of the battery pack of the electric vehicle and automatically activate the charging circuit. Alarm will also be activated to warn user of the battery condition. Hopefully, this project also can be implemented in automotive industry especially in our national car.

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