Research Regarding Design and Material for an Electrical Car Charger Shell

Abstract

In the recent years, the electric vehicles have drawn great attention worldwide as a feasible solution for clean transportation. The charging infrastructure for electric vehicles is expanding throughout the world, encouraged by large investments from the automotive industry, to reduce carbon emissions. The purpose of this paper is to design the shell of an electrical vehicle charger by using polymeric composite materials. The manufacturing technology is proposed and the analysis of the product behaviour during the wind action in extreme conditions is presented. The paper includes studies and research regarding the design, the manufacturing and the simulation for the action of wind upon the product�s walls. The simulations are performed for the actual used material (ordinary sheet steel) and for the proposed composite material in order to compare the results. The composite material seems to be an adequate solution for the electric charger shell.

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