Battery design of an electric go-Kart

For some years now, the transportation industry, especially automotive, is experiencing a transition from fossil fuels towards more sustainable alternatives. While there are different technologies emerging progressively, electric vehicles are the main focus in the present, with efforts being put int...

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Autor: Salinas Barangé, Santiago
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/422955
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/422955
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Energy storage
Lithium ion batteries
Electric charge and distribution
Energy storage, Lithium-ion battery, Energy density, Thermal management, Battery Management System, Energy efficiency, Electric performance
Energia--Emmagatzematge
Bateries d'ió liti
Càrrega i distribució elèctriques
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Energies
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Sumario:For some years now, the transportation industry, especially automotive, is experiencing a transition from fossil fuels towards more sustainable alternatives. While there are different technologies emerging progressively, electric vehicles are the main focus in the present, with efforts being put into increasing energy and power density. In this sense, motorsport serves as the perfect platform for innovation, research and development while providing entertainment to numerous fans all over the world. As one of the lowest levels of motorsport, karting is considerably behind in terms of electrification, mainly due to the limited budget. However, electric go-kart is starting to gather some enthusiast among young drivers and different competitions and organisations are emerging worldwide. The aim of this project is to contribute to the growth of the sport and demonstrate the possibilities of electric powertrains in a low budget competition as it is karting. In addition, this battery concept is intended to be built in the future for the electric go-Kart owned by Cranfield University, which is used by students and researchers as a tool to learn and develop new projects. The design of this concept will consider all the aforementioned factors and establish a list of requirements that will guide every design choice that is made. A literature review of both existing and state-of-art technology will be done and evaluated for this particular application by means of simulation or hand calculations. Next, the concept will be refined to a lower-level design and manufacturing and mounting instructions, as well as some component options, will be further detailed. The proposed solution consists of a high-capacity pouch cell battery passively cooled with fins on its aluminium casing. The result of this project showcases how a comparable level of performance to conventional karting can be obtained with electric powertrains despite the limited amount of budget of the series.