Design and Simulation, of an Electric Tricycle Propulsion System

Abstract

Electric vehicles are a promising candidate to substitute the conventional, and to reduce fossil fuel depen-dency. This paper presents the design and simulation of the propulsion system of the electric tricycle. An equation that defines the dynamics of the vehicle was obtained, the program Matlab® R2013b was used to simulateitsperformance. As a result, the graph of tractive effort vs. speed, and velocity and distance trave-led versus time of the tricycle are displays. Finally the energy consumption and the range of the electricver-sion were compared with the internal combustion one.