Executive Summary : | Pb-acid batteries (PAB) are not suitable for electric vehicles due to their poor specific energy density. Lithium ion batteries (LIB), although having much higher specific energy density, are not cost effective and thus have not replaced PAB for majority of electric vehicles in India. Also, India will have to totally depend on other countries like China for the raw materials of LIB. Sodium ion batteries (NIB) can have specific energies at par with lithium ion batteries and are significantly cheaper than LIB. Therefore the project aims to run an E-vehicle using indigenously developed NIB-supercapacitor pack. This will be achieved by(1) identification of suitable materials that can be economically manufactured in India, (2) simulation based design of NIB cells(3) fabrication of the prismatic pouch NIB/supercapacitor cells utilizing pilot facility at IIT Kharagpur, (4) design and fabrication of energy management system and (5) pack fabrication and field test. |
Co-PI: | Dr. Venimadhav Adyam, Associate Professor, Cryogenic Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, Dr. Sreeraj Puravankara, Assistant Professor, Energy Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, Dr. Kaushik Biswas, Associate Professor, Metallurgical & Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, Dr. Tarun K. Kundu, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, Dr. Subasish Basu Majumder, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, Dr. Amreesh Chandra, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, Dr. Chandan Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, Dr. Jishnu Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur |