Dynamic Contactless Power Transfer On Go-karts

Dynamic Contactless Power Transfer On Go-karts

de Leeuw, Vincent (TU Delft Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering)

Dong, Jianning (mentor)
Babuska, Robert (graduation committee)
Batista Soeiro, Thiago (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

2019-04-17

Wireless power transfer is getting more attention than ever before but seems to be lagging in the go-kart industry. Manufacturers are designing more electric powered go-karts, but haven’t found a proper solution for most of its major drawbacks. The added weight from the battery pack and the required time to recharge are just two of these major drawbacks. These drawbacks make electric go-karts less desired in the rental industry, where turn-around-time is required to be as short as possible; in order to maximize profit. An Inductive Power Transfer System can be used to charge the battery pack of an electric go-kart statically in the pit-lane, but also dynamically on the track. Both of which are shown to reduce the required size of the battery-pack of electric cars and busses. This study determined the feasibility of an IPTS on go-karts, considering the current state of the art, in order to solve these drawbacks. The design of the charger was optimized for a go-kart while keeping its most important features the same. A safety analysis was performed using a FEM-program to see whether the system can be used by the public. The go-kart with the charger was modeled and simulations were used to determine the required size of the battery pack in a case-study. The results of this case-study were used to evaluate the financial viability of an IPTS on go-karts.

Go-kart
Wireless power transfer
Inductive power transfer
Coupling
Electromagnetic

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Student theses

master thesis

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