Simplified Explanation of How Electric Cars Work

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13 жыл бұрын

In this video, I walk though an EV Display Board which has all of the parts of an Electric Vehicle and talked about the parts them selves and showed the parts working from start to finish. This demonstration gives the simplified explanation of how Electric Cars Work.
I know I said a few thing off like one spot I said milli amp volts when I meant to say just mili volt drop. My video editor won't allow me to change the audio. But you get the basic picture of how an electric car will work.
If your interested in seeing the schematic, please see my other companion video to this.
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@ElectricFormula 12 жыл бұрын

Controllers in EVs have diodes that they call a Free Wheel Diode to allow coasting without using any power. So you can let off of the throttle and coast a long ways before needing more power again to speed up. Makes for very easy pulse and glide driving (hyper miler style of driving). In my exmaple coasting means no power applied to the motor. Only thing slowing you down is friction and air drag. You can have a controller setup to cause drag (regen) but that is a special controller/motor combo.

@maazahmed9010 2 жыл бұрын

This video is old but gold really amazing work done by this man , 👏👏👏😊👍🏻 Dont miss out on this video

@nycresistance 11 жыл бұрын

Thank you for making this video, you have made it incredibly simple to understand how an electric car works.

@richlijacanacua 5 жыл бұрын

Wow! Thank you very much for teaching us the functions and how to set-up an EV-Conversion. You are amazing! This is the start of revolution against the messy, polluted, complicated and expensive combustion engine. Goodbye combustion engine! Hello and welcome clean, practical EV ENGINE!

@Darlavonderheide 10 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this explanation. Is there a wiring plan available somewhere? I would like to pay for it.

@OrganicTexas 12 жыл бұрын

Great visual method for explaining the concepts & parts of an EV. If you're taking requests, I'd like to suggest a video that explains in newb terms all the terms that get thrown around and why it matters. From how to explain the electronic talk like AC / DC, phases, volts, kilowatts, and all the other terms that get throw around when discussing EVs. I can read the dictionary definitions but I'd like to know how it fits into the actual application of EVs. Thank you.

@095Me 10 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this explanation.

@lrg3834 4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely brilliant teaching tool. Thanks for sharing.

@addisonlather5536 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video help me to see what I was missing kinda ... still not sure where to proceed next as I want to make an awd cart with four hover board brushless motors and probably a 500w controller for each wheel running off two 36v batteries paralleled would the current shunt be necessary.. I planned on adding the emergency shut off and fuse online from battery pack but I don’t wanna hook all this up for it to blow/burn something up cuz I forgot part that I was still missing ?? Any help or answers that could help me out

@adrianjuarez1153 9 жыл бұрын

hey man nice tutorial do you have any info on where i can get pricing for the stuff you used im having to make a project for my electrical engineering capstone class and you basically have everything i need on here.

@greghanlon2235 9 жыл бұрын

Nice demo. Great teaching tool.

@linggiman 6 жыл бұрын

excellent display of electrical workings....TQ sir

@davidcastle65 6 жыл бұрын

i want a petal control for my gator where can i get it and do you really need the shunt in the system?

@mrakjunior 7 жыл бұрын

excellent demo

@radiofun232 12 жыл бұрын

Very good demo circuit, added to my favourites. In real the thickness from the wiring to the different (driving) units and motor will be an issue too.

@gabys2 10 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video!

@adilioborja 11 жыл бұрын

thanks, very simple but to the point in a mechanical illustration !

@dolinick 9 жыл бұрын

Thank You! I hope to convert one of my vehicles one day.

@K44S1M 12 жыл бұрын

This is really helpful, thank you

@KevinTxTx 11 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing your video It came really handy I just have a probably a really stupid question but I once you do the conversion in a car can you attach with a pulley to the motor an alternator to send charge to the batteries ? or there isnt enough traction ?

@evilkid28 12 жыл бұрын

How do you go about selecting the correct motor controller? What do you look for in a motor controller? Really good video explaination (especially since I am a visual learner).

@sonnymoon6465 9 жыл бұрын

Thank you. That is VERY helpful ! My hybrid broke down and I really want to make it into an electric car. It of course has an electric motor on it already, but I do not know if or how it can be used by itself. I hope to just pull everything out and put in a very strong motor and have all the accessories still. Thanks again for your video.

@bobert4him 12 жыл бұрын

Thank you. This is very helpful.

@Lollipopsucker213 11 жыл бұрын

FINALLY ! Thanks for the info and xplanation. I NOW UNDERSTAND THANK YOU Kindly.

@jo3lsilvaracidesigner946 8 жыл бұрын

congratulation excellent work

@elhardtrealestate3937 4 жыл бұрын

This is awesome - thank you!

@onetongwa 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video.

@ElectricFormula 12 жыл бұрын

My best advice is to find an EV already converted. There are lots for sale out there. Usually you can save some money and you can start driving right away. You should also find your local EAA club and talk with them and learn as much as you can. For your other questions, the batteries provide the amps used, so the batteries provide the 500 amps. You can use a generator but adds cost and you have to get a big one to be able to continuouly drive. I hope this helps.

@Daemo4 12 жыл бұрын

Nice Video!! Even though I already know a bit about electrical systems, this just helps to make it clear. Although, what about coasting? This set up would essentially be applying a brake when you let off the throttle. Do you just need a proper controller that provides the coasting function? And is the amperage maintained during coast?

@algae1000 11 жыл бұрын

Good explanation! The speed is controlled with the throttle (rheostat?), and this isn't a PWM motor, so what does the controller do? Thanks!

@ElectricFormula 12 жыл бұрын

Google is going to be your best friend when looking up EV terminology. There are so many out there that it would be a 30 minute video to try and cover them all. Just do a google search onf EV Terminology and you will find lots of examples of terms people use a lot.

@ElectricFormula 12 жыл бұрын

@deputy1040 There are charts on line to know for sure what size of wire to use. So use the online charts to look up how much current each gauge of wire can handle and size it appropriately to what the controller can do. Going bigger doesn't hurt anything, better to be in a safe limit compared to the top end of a gauge of wire. For the fuse, that depends on the controller, find out the current and get the appropriate size.

@rcgirl4065 10 жыл бұрын

Very informative. Intelligent great job thank you for showing the details keep up the good work :-)

@scottyforte5889 4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video

@kamalabebo 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video ,excellent.

@LegoBeto 7 жыл бұрын

Hello, I am an electrical engineer and the one part that has me totally perplexed is the motor controller. Is this something you can buy off the shelf somewhere? Do you have to design this from the ground up? How elaborate is this circuit

@realiation 12 жыл бұрын

Hey man! nice video! definitely cleared some smoke in my eyes...

@sushilrauniyar7241 8 жыл бұрын

Can you please provide the actual circuit diagram of electrical circuit used in vehicles?

@groganzolla1 13 жыл бұрын

Nicely done! Have you created a schematic for this demo?

@groganzolla1 13 жыл бұрын

That is so cool of you! Thank you!

@krishnamurthyhandadi9506 10 жыл бұрын

how to make the motor controller which u made @electricformula

@pedrogloria1851 11 жыл бұрын

Very good explenation! Now, could you try this and post the experience: Ad to your circuit the power produced by the motor while spining, to re-charge the baterys, and so crating a closed self sustained circuit. Does this work?

@denilsgh 8 жыл бұрын

how can i get intouch with you..nice demo,. am interested in building same for my project

@lukecartwright1803 3 жыл бұрын

Great video

@pierreduplessis1507 8 жыл бұрын

most of the electrics for a conversion for converting from petrol too electric you can buy from dealers who build and sell the electric parts for the electric forklifts.

@ElectricFormula 12 жыл бұрын

Power brakes on an EV are supplied by a vacuum pump, so you use the car's factory brake system. Power steering can be accomplished by a secondary motor turning the factory steering pump or conver to an electric version like the Toyota MR2, or you could also use the tail shaft of main motor (but only works when motor is spinning). The A/C system is just like the power steering system. For the stereo, lights, signals, those all use the car's factory 12 volt system so no changes in those devices.

@GalaXy808 11 жыл бұрын

I'm still learning & trying to build small motor or moped,but I'm not sure bec.im gonna need to put so nany things? Like current shunt ,fuse and contractor ect.

@GalaXy808 11 жыл бұрын

Good explanation

@rootehnix 11 жыл бұрын

Can you use the charger while you run the motor? I have a similar (36v) setup in a mini electri ATV and was wondering if i can hook up a small petrol electric generator and go for a long ride. Will the charger fry if i use it while i drive?

@akai454 13 жыл бұрын

Super Cool Dude, I realize that the motor that You used in this video was just representative of a motor for the actual electric vehicle that would be in actual use, but I'm wondering about the motor in this video. Is it a three phase motor or some thing? I'm glad I subscribed.

@ElectricFormula 11 жыл бұрын

The throttle is just an input device for the controller to know how much power your requesting to apply to the motor. So the controller is doing PWM to the motor based on your throttle position you have set.

@kiteshkumar2255 12 жыл бұрын

Hey i like ur video but one thing i didnt understand is that bettry charging by them self or u have to recharge seperate.. Thx

@richlijacanacua 5 жыл бұрын

How much is the cost of conversion? And where we can order the parts?

@FreePizza007 12 жыл бұрын

good video but.... How do you consider the following. ABS, ESP, Cruise Controls, GPS and all other creature comforts. Will you lose them after conversion? Cheers.

@LZKS 11 жыл бұрын

I see what you're saying. However, consider this. When coasting in neutral gas is being input to run engine at idle, losing gas. When coasting in highest gear possible, you're still losing energy by running the engine and crankshaft. Hybrid cars will brake regen and shut off engine when not needed. Brake regen by itself won't be more efficient than coasting but when you add all the things that go with them, I think it is.

@evsolution3558 6 жыл бұрын

kindly say about motor (which motor use,volt,how much hp motor ..etc..

@SnazzBot 11 жыл бұрын

In a EV would you have a normal automatic gear box and do you need one? Great video by the way.

@ElectricFormula 13 жыл бұрын

@akai454 This display model is an DC series system. Everything would be the same for an AC system except for the controller and the motor. You use the same batteries, fuses, switches, contractors, etc. The controller of an AC system uses the DC power from the batteries and converts it to a 3 phase AC output. So what I covered in this display works for both AC and DC systems.

@soumyajitdas771 11 жыл бұрын

Sir,very nice video. Very Easy to understand. Sir can you please tell us how the REGEN works? I am clueless :(

@kurtfarao6113 9 жыл бұрын

Nice video and simple explanation. You would also want to run a DC/DC converter for your 12v Accessories (head lights, indicators, radion etc.. ) inside your car.

@tempstep4058 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent! Thanks

@henrikjonsson4340 3 жыл бұрын

Why is it more volts after the contator is engaged?

@marcosrah 12 жыл бұрын

NICE SET UP.....

@ElectricFormula 11 жыл бұрын

Since my channel is about battery electric vehicles (BEV), I wasn't considering any gas being used. I used the assumption we were talking about a BEV. In Hybrids, there are other things to consider like you said. So my comments releate to BEVs.

@ElectricFormula 11 жыл бұрын

Several people have shown this in videos and on the web. If you use one motor to spin the other the output is always less. Try cranking a hand generator like something on a emergency radio. Feel how much force it takes to have it make electricity to just power a radio. It takes a lot, so the driving motor would have to work hard to spin the other motor but in the end the output would be less, how much less depends on the motors and how sensetive your testing equipment is but its aways less.

@elblitz 12 жыл бұрын

man...youre a hero

@tombrewsaugh1399 2 жыл бұрын

With the energy shutoff you still had power to the key. I would think you would want to kill all power with that switch. Therefore putting tapping the power fir the key on the output side if the emergency switch.

@ElectricFormula 13 жыл бұрын

@groganzolla1 I've added another video on the schematic of the EV Display Board.

@GasparinPR 11 жыл бұрын

Where can I get bigger parts cause I know I can't drive a go-kart with those parts. This video is very helpful man.

@markleygordon9529 7 жыл бұрын

The voltage at the motor controller is the battery voltage minus the voltage drop and the shunt.

@ElectricFormula 11 жыл бұрын

If there is any problem with a particular part of the electrical equipment the fuse will blow before your expensive equipment does. Just like in the car's regular 12 volt fuse block or in your house.

@universestar5141 9 жыл бұрын

Good one, Thank you!

@pedrogloria1851 11 жыл бұрын

My question goes more on this way. Hope you can hall understand. An electromagnetic motor is in fact an alternator and vice-versa, right? In this electric mode veichles, you induce energy from a batery to make the motor spin; while spinig the motor is producing energy it self, that you can send back to the batery and re-charge it, consecutively, till it dies completly. So, if the veichle is moving you have energy, if you have energy you can do something with it, always! Right?

@seanla04 12 жыл бұрын

Hi ElectricFormula, I am interested to build an EV but I don't know how. How many batteries needed to run the EV? Where the 500A comes from? Can you use a power generator instead bunch of Batteries?

@RobertMOdell 10 жыл бұрын

How much power is generated by your motor?

@amitghosh5024 6 жыл бұрын

Hello Sir! Tnx for this video. Its very helpful for me. I'm doing one electric kart project, But i'm getting the circuit of this project, if u give the circuit diagram of this video that will helpful for me. Sir! can you send me the circuit diagram of this video, Please.

@piawallace5512 6 жыл бұрын

Amit Ghosh Hi oscar llose here my email addr is oscar_llose@yahoo.com. I am also contemplating to convert my volks bettle into electric. I need ur help. Were you able to get the circuit diagram. Pls sent me a copy too. And may i get in contact with regarding the conversion. Thank you very much

@Unibomber2u 9 жыл бұрын

Do you still disengage the clutch and shift a manual transmission the same way as a gas engine?

@ElectricFormula 9 жыл бұрын

Tucker Not Sucker! Typically on a conversion, if the clutch is left in the vehicle, you would disengage the clutch to shift the gears. It makes shifting gears easier. The car would kind of drive a lot like an automatic; what I mean by that is you put the car into 2nd gear. Once it is in gear, even at a stop, you don't need to disengage the clutch again until you want to shift. So taking off you leave the clutch engaged, drive at 25 or so MPH and you approach a stop sign, you just apply the brakes. Never touching the clutch. On a gas engine you have to disengage the clutch because the Gas engine wants to keep spinning but on an EV, no power is applied to the motor so it just freely rotates, so no need to disengage the clutch in this scenario. To go faster, you would eventually shift into 3rd gear. So it is only slightly different than driving a stick shift car, but you quickly figure the trick out.

@Unibomber2u 9 жыл бұрын

ElectricFormula Makes sense. Thanks for the explanation.

@eliotshaw4225 9 жыл бұрын

Tucker Not Sucker! I removed my manual transmission from my conversion as with an electric car you only need two gears, one for torque and one for speed, these gears change automatically in my setup which I engineered, however I can override the change if I require torque for longer or the pitch of the car requires torque. It cost me less than $500 for the setup. The momentum of the car rolling when you're at speed allows the motor to generate electricity instead of consuming it which is also a plus with not disengaging the transmission if you go down that path.

@emeranza1 12 жыл бұрын

How does the little electric motor work?

@ElectricFormula 11 жыл бұрын

REGEN really only works on AC motors, there are ways to do it in DC motors but it is really hard and usually not done. But REGEN is just the process of converting momentum into electricity through the electric motor. It takes a lot of force to make electricity so that is why it slows down the car when applied. If you were going to stop anyways, might as well collect energy so it can be used to accelerate again. But its not a lot of energy gained but better than nothing.

@ag135i 5 жыл бұрын

Which motor provides more regen? AC or BLDC?.

@buzz8019 12 жыл бұрын

thank you this is very good. all the best buzz knapp-fisher getting off toxic

@markwilliford4567 8 жыл бұрын

where is the steering wheel?

@markuscwatson 8 жыл бұрын

I am pretty sure the drop in voltage when you rev the motor is not due to "the batteries working harder," as you stated, but rather due to the back-EMF induced in the coils of the motor: "When the armature of a d.c. motor rotates under the influence of the driving torque, the armature conductors move through the magnetic field and hence e.m.f. is induced in them as in a generator. The induced e.m.f. acts in opposite direction to the applied voltage V (Lenz's law) and in known as back or counter e.m.f. (Quora.com)"

@jaromor8808 7 жыл бұрын

i feel like upvoting coz this actuall sounds like it would make sense... but i know absolute zero about this black magic :D

@girardaquino 7 жыл бұрын

Mark Watson and so the difference between the source voltage and measured will be the amount of emf generated?

@jumhig 7 жыл бұрын

Mark Watson Also the voltage drop thru the current shunt contributes to the total voltage drop.

@JosePena-hs8fk 6 жыл бұрын

Mark Watson daammm.

@kalidasg124 6 жыл бұрын

Good video

@ElectricFormula 11 жыл бұрын

There is a small black box on the left which recharges the battery just like in an EV. No system will be self sustaining, there are gimics out there that make it look like it is but to much energy is used to make the EV to go which will never be recaptured (not even with regenerative breaking). So you always have to have an external power source to recharge weather it is an on-board generator or plugging in to an wall outlet.

@LZKS 11 жыл бұрын

What about regenerative braking?

@ElectricFormula 13 жыл бұрын

@groganzolla1 I don't have a schematic, but I could put one together. There wouldn't be much too it since this one is just a basic setup. I'll see if I can make a quick one and respond with that for you all.

@michaelmoon9139 6 жыл бұрын

What sense does this make if a car uses a throttle and you have to add gear?... By the way does a car motor come with a throttle when you buy a motor?... Does it also come with a ignition key?

@hectorgutierrez4230 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video it's possible can you send me List in the diagram and everything I need for a car and motorcycle where I can buy thank you so much

@ilililhy1 12 жыл бұрын

keep going,don`t stop now, EXPAND,stay on the right path. Focus.

@judojustim 12 жыл бұрын

what about the powered brakes, steering, stereo, A/C?

@LZKS 11 жыл бұрын

I agree in terms of driving smart. I do that too, and I don't understand people who keeps accelerating when the light in front of them is indicating red. It's like they only know how to accel or brake, no coast. However, brake regen will give you some energy back while coasting won't give you any energy back.

@ElectricFormula 11 жыл бұрын

A place I have been to before is tncscooters (google it). They have the basic upgrades for a lot of scooters which could be used for a go-kart (not extreamly fast through). I actually have an electric go-kart started but it is unfinished. I have a old golf cart motor for the powerplant and use something like an Alltrax controller. It will be setup for 48 volts , so it would be a real screamer so would probably need to have a way to put it in low (24v)or high (48v).

@devanshgupta2702 7 жыл бұрын

may i get the circuit diagram of this plz i request you

@PixelProProductions1 6 жыл бұрын

creative engineering screen shot it

@xicoloco 11 жыл бұрын

Hi can you post the schematics of that so i can build for my kids science fair ? or send me as email ?

@ElectricFormula 11 жыл бұрын

You can do a manual trans or automatic. The manual trans will be more efficient than the auto. The auto was designed with shift points of an ICE in mind. With the electric motor, the shift points would be different. You can modify the auto trans to have better shift points. One of the guys in our club did that, its exensive but he does have an automatic EV. Can do a conversion without a trans but got to have a much bigger expensive motor to do that. Easier to just use the transsmission.

@ElectricFormula 11 жыл бұрын

With a CVT, you could get away with a smaller AC motor. I don't know of anyone doing a conversion yet with a CVT but I don't see any reason why one couldn't be used. Might have to have the logic updated on the CVT to keep a different RPM, but I think would be doable.