The energy crisis and environmental pollution are two big problems that today's world facing. Solar electric automobile will have great significance for solving the energy crisis and environmental pollution. This article from the main advantages of solar electric vehicles start, elaborated the basic structure, working principle, key technology and the problem need to solve of solar electric vehicle, to provide reference for the future research and development.

Solar powered intellective vehicles (SPIVs) not only focus on energy saving and environmental protection, but also have finer feasibility. The design of extended range in SPIVs is a kind of the important directions that low carbon green vehicles will be design in future. We will reflect demanding design of extended range shoot to convert the target design level. The optimal design is actualized for photovoltaic array collocation of solar energy in SPIVs. The “zero oils consume, zero exhaust, increment drives distance” demand of SPIVs are carry out by the vehicle with design carries to net electrical source system of extended range.

The energy and the environment are two main factors restraining the development of automobile industry. Besides its high feasibility, hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) also holds the advantages concerning with energy and environment. This article will discuss on the work mode and specific design scheme of the extended range electric vehicles (EREVs), one of HEVs most important research direction.

This paper is concerned with an optimization design for the solar car body under a single load is carried out by using finite element optimization design (FEOD) model. Topology optimization and sizing optimization are explored to find out an optimal manufacturing feasible design from multiple optimized designs of material reinforcement of the solar car body for rigidity improvement. The application of these methods demonstrates that through innovative utilization of the topology optimization technique, an optimal manufacturing feasible design can be obtained. The relationship between the rigidity improvement and different configuration of material reinforcement is also investigated. It is concluded that through appropriate application of FEOD methods, the overall rigidity of the solar car body framework can be improved substantially in a cost effective manner and provides more convincing evidence for optimization design of the solar car body. The results demonstrate that the optimized solar car body is safer and lighter.

The solar energy reserve is huge, distribution of a wide range, clean and safe. This article mainly from the basic principle of solar cell start, described the solar energy vehicle generation electricity mode and the structure of photovoltaic array system, discussed its structure and process characteristics, puts forward a new design method of the solar photovoltaic cell array, calculation model of solar energy vehicle photovoltaic cell array were established based on maximum output power and dimension, research results on the solar energy vehicle photovoltaic cell array are briefly presented in this paper lastly. The reference for the development and use of solar energy vehicle are provided.