Powertrain Team

This team deals with circuitry that goes into powering our kart. The two main components used here are the motor and the motor-controller. We use a highly efficient motor, since it is the main component used by this kart. The motor’s job is to take supply from the battery and drive the kart, while the controller regulates and monitors the systems working in the background and is smart enough to understand any kind of problems that happen with the motor during the operation hence making it safe. Our Motor-controller provides sinusoidal supply which is necessary to drive the motor.

Our Motor can act as a generator, when decelerating, and hence it can put that energy back into the battery to recharge the battery again. This is called regenerative breaking. This team is working on designing and manufacturing the entire circuitry of the kart in-house.