CONTACTLESS ENERGY TRANSMISSION TO MOBILE LOADS BY CLPS - TEST DRIVING OF AN EV WITH STARTER BATTERIES

Starting and driving methods of contactless power transmission to elec tric vehicles are proposed. By employing rectangular and spiral coils for primary and secondary windings, respectively, for contactless powe r station. We could transmit electric power over 200W to our fabricate d EV motor setup and verify the actual operation on it. The EV is a co mpact prototype driven by CLPS, loaded with a light-weight battery. Th e battery supplies a part of transient current arising from starting a nd acceleration of EV. We could actually drive the CLPS-powered protot ype at 30km/h for the overall energy consumption of 100W. Driving test with and without CLPS using ''10-mode'' driving schedule were execute d and compared.