The first INDIAN “RAMESH” who was awarded with "SIR HENRY ROYCE AWARD "for the year of 2008. by IET (UK). He was awarded with this non-valuable award for the project design "solarised secured electric vehicle".
India is a developing nation in the world. The main disadvantage in India is the petrol hike. The petrol hike increases with much unbearable price in day to day life. This sparked the need to find a solution: to design & engineer a non polluting vehicle, cost effective, environ friendly and uses non conventional and Renewable energy - source.
Description of the project:

•A vision with concern environment •A vision with confidence on our future

The concept being approached is an electric car, which has a battery that can charge using solar power. Dc motor is used for traction purpose and controlled by toroidal transformer. Security system used in the car to detect the unauthorized person by alarm and emergency call through owner mobile phone. The electric backup is to overcome the drawback of solar power, with sizeable size and weight of solar panels, etc this prototype electric vehicle presently needs few critical parts, such as the axle, solar charger, etc, which should be highly reliable. Though these can be developed and manufactured indigenously, when the requirement volume is sufficient to warrant a cost effective batch production, thus earmarking these as derivative backward integration of the basic concept. However, major items will be manufactured locally with locally available materials, facilities and skills. This Project is sure to be a viable success, conceptually, ethically, garnering the approval of government and the public and will be ideally suited for the projected future market scenario, not only within India but even globally.

Motivation of the project:

to help the people by avoiding -petrol consumption -environmental pollution

-Easy Usage by all Range of People
• -Energy Conversion (Solar form to Mechanical form)
Disadvantages of Existing System:
• Does not have proper controlling unit.
• It Consumes Large Volume of Batteries.
• Does not have the option of Multi-Level charging.
• Limited & Constant Speed.
Advantages of Proposed System:
• Consists of Reliable Control Unit.
• Compactable and Highly Configured Batteries.
• The option of Multi-Level charging viz (Solar Energy Charging, External Electrical Charging, Motional Charging).
• Variable and High Speed.
CONCLUSION:

• Thus a solar powered electric vehicle, which runs at a maximum speed of 25-30 kmph and has a loading capacity of 120 kg.
• The vehicle is environmental friendly, noiseless, & consumes fewer resources. The running cost of the vehicle was effectively reduced. The various calculations regarding the load, vehicle design and component selection were done.
FUTURE DEVELOPMENT:

• The vehicle can be improved on the basis of higher speed, better body design, medium weight batteries, and more efficient solar panels. The efficiency of solar panels should be high so that fewer numbers of panels are used to produce charge for the batteries.
• The use of medium weight batteries would lead to lesser weight of the vehicle. With high hp motors .It can made with low cost, good efficiency, environment pollution free etc.