Regenerative Braking System- charge and storage (Huyen-Tran Nguyen, EE Department, SJSU)

This video clip shows how an electric charge and storage system of an RBS works. The two parallel branches of the ultracapacitor system, through two current limiters, will charge 12V from the alternator of the brake system until full and then stack together in series to double the voltage to 24V. This doubled voltage will be boosted up to 48V to help accelerate the vehicle, or boosted up to 50V to charge to the battery bank of the vehicle if the brake is still applied when all the ultracaps are full. The charge and discharge processes are managed by a switching circuit which consists of power MOSFETs switches controlled by either a microcontroller or a hardware controller.

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Science & Technology

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• Regenerative
• Braking
• system
• San
• Jose
• State
• University
• SJSU
• Senior
• Project
• Charge
• and
• Storage
• System
• Huyen-Tran
• Nguyen

[kokopelli314]

Very well done! Will you be marketing these?

[heartlessvietboy]

Only using re-generative braking instead of an on-board electric generator to charge the vehicle is degress to human advancement.  However good to see re-generative braking also applied in modern cars.