WSEAS Transactions on Advances in Engineering Education
Print ISSN: 1790-1979, E-ISSN: 2224-3410
Volume 12, 2015
Pedagogical Study of Electric Go-Karts: Technological Choices, Instrumentations, Characteristics, Challenge
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Abstract: Electric vehicles are very good educational aids because they can be used by every student with lower costs compared to building a classic car. The International Pedagogical electric go-kart Meeting that take place in France motivates students and help them to implement different technological choices. These choices are often difficult because they mean saving the energy aboard, in accordance with new technologies. Indeed, these future vehicles represent a difficult compromise between weight, volume, power, autonomy, and price. The evolution of electric go-karts was made possible thanks to motors running on low voltage and new Lithium batteries. This article will outline the resisting power depending on the vehicle speed, accelerating torque, types of motors and controllers used, energy sources and chargers. Finally, one educational application will be pre-sented as this kind of vehicles uses many aspects of electrical engineering: power converter, battery, motor, controller, control, electronics, lights, instrumentation, sensor, mathematics, mechanics…
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Keywords: go-kart challenge, motor electric control, Lithium battery, project-based teaching, battery charger, super capacity, instrumentation
Pages: 95-104
WSEAS Transactions on Advances in Engineering Education, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1790-1979 / 2224-3410, Volume 12, 2015, Art. #10