Abstract
Due to most electrical vehicles nowadays are all lack of endurance, the purpose of our investigation is to prevent breakdown of a car when the battery is out, Therefore, a turbo generator will be developed so that a car could be charged when in an urgent situation, and let them get to the nearest charging station to be charged. Turbogenerators has some advantages compared with the piston engine generator. For example, it has high energy density and it can be started up and running in a short time with low vibration. These advantages led them to be used widely in distributed power generation. Nowadays, more and more people drive Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV or Hybrid), Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles (PHEV) or Battery only Electric Vehicles (BEV). Portable electronic products will also be used widely in the future and we estimate the electric power in need will rise at a rate of 15% a year. This will be the main reason why we are developing a Micro-Turbo-Generator. In this study, we are going to use the engine SPT5 manufactured by JETCAT CORP as our main power source. By selecting a power generator that will match our engine, we can develop a Micro-turbo-Generator, to be integrated into an electric vehicle. Two types of micro-turbo-generator will be developed. One is a portable micro-turbo-generator that could be used when our car breaks down in the middle of nowhere with no charging station to be found, we can use it as an emergency backup power supply to charge our car battery. The other one is a fixed micro- turbo-generator that we can place in our house or at a vacation site to provide electrical power for charging our electric vehicle battery. After the two types of micro-turbo-generator are developed, its performance, analysis and testing will be conducted so that we can understand its performance parameters and characteristics. The final task of our study is to combine our study to the “I BIKE”, a personal electric vehicle our University has developed, to act as an emergency backup power supply when riding outdoors.