Vehicle equipped with at least one solar panel and a kinetic energy recovery system
AssigneeVolvo Truck Corporation
InventorsPhilemon Chavrier, Olivier Poussin, Cédric Mazaufroy, Sebastien Pesenti
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Abstract
A vehicle includes a prime mover, such as an internal combustion engine, driving a transmission shaft, a kinetic energy recuperation system, including an electric machine fitted on the transmission shaft and a supercapacitor for recovering the braking energy delivered by the electric machine, at least one solar panel, that is connected to the electric machine and to the supercapacitor, and a controller that is configured to direct the energy captured by the solar panel(s) either to the electric machine or to the supercapacitor as a function of the torque demand on transmission shaft.
Claims13
A vehicle, comprising:
- a prime mover, driving a transmission shaft,
- a kinetic energy recuperation system, including an electric machine fitted on the transmission shaft and a supercapacitor for recovering a braking energy delivered by the electric machine,
- at least one solar panel, that is connected to the electric machine and to the supercapacitor;
- a controller that is configured to direct energy captured by the at least one solar panel either to the electric machine or to the supercapacitor as a function of a torque demand on the transmission shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.