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Vol. 21 No. 1 (2025)

Published: September 19, 2025

Pages: 117-125

Original Article

Design and Validation of Super-Capacitor Assisted Photovoltaic Array for Roof-Top Solar Powered Electric Vehicle Applications

Karunanithi K. 1 S. Saravanan 2 Ramesh S. S. P. Raja 3 S. Kannan 4 S. C. Vijayakumar
1Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology, Avadi, Chennai, India
2B V Raju Institute of Technology, Telangana
3Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India
4Ramco Institute of Technology, Rajapalayam, Tamil Nadu
History
  • Received: June 22, 2023
  • Revised: August 9, 2023
  • Accepted: December 22, 2023
  • Available Online: December 5, 2024
DOI

https://doi.org/10.37917/ijeee.21.1.11

Abstract

Upkeeping the Battery State-Of-Charge (SoC) and its life are of great significance in Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) & Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV). This is possible by integrating Solar Photovoltaic Panels (PPs) on the Roof-top of the BEVs & HEVs. However, unlike Solar Powered Vehicle Charging stations and other PV applications where the solar panels are installed in such a way to extract the maximum Photon energy incident on the panel, vehicle Roof-top mount Solar PPs face many challenges in extracting maximum Power due to partial shading issues especially under dynamic conditions when passing under trees, high rise buildings and cloud passages. This paper proposes a new strategy called “Super-capacitor Assisted Photovoltaic Array”. In which Photovoltaic Modules are integrated with Super-capacitors to improve the transient performance of the Photovoltaic Array system. The design of proposed Super-capacitor Assisted PV array is validated & its performance is compared with conventional PV array in Matlab/ Simulink environment.

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