TeamKART Electric

ABOUT US

TeamKART is the official Formula Student team of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. It is a student project under the Department of Mechanical Engineering that involves designing and manufacturing Formula-style cars since 2008. With these, we participate in reputed national and international college-level engineering design and management competitions that are conducted by Formula Bharat and IMechE (UK) under the name of Formula Student.

 OUR ACHIEVEMENTS!

We have manufactured 8 combustion vehicles till date and participated in 3 international and 5 national competitions. We participated in Formula Bharat 2023 with our 8th combustion car K-6, in January 2023, bagging a place among the Top 10 teams and ranking 3rd in the Cost & Manufacturing Event. We also bagged the 1st position in Formula Bharat Virtual 2021 in the CV category, along with the Best Power train Design and the Best Engineering Design Concept.

 KE-1

The first ever Electric Vehicle the team has manufactured. 

It features Agni-119R axial flux DC motor along with a 87.6V LFP battery pack. This vehicle featured custom circuitry like the control Panel, VCUs, etc. interfacing multiple sensors to efficiently achieve the proper communications between different parts of the vehicle as well as ensuring safe operation. 

Some of our previous designs include:

The Control Panel, used as a centralised board for controlling the contactors and monitoring the pack for faults, to kill the system when a fault airses.

KE-1X

After the successful manufacturing of KE-1 and gaining experience with the EV-world. We will be making improvements to all of our PCBs with the target of participating in Formula Bharat 2027

Re-designing them to support communication via CAN, having a 12V Power Distribution Board for stable output, to name a few.

The prototype of our custom, self designed Analog Front End for the BMS.

Above is the first iteration of the BMS master that we will be designing.

Besides this, we will also be making

1.) A CAN interface for the Motor Controller

2.) A Vehicle Control Unit:, to monitor the vehicle parameters and then determine whether the motor controller should receive the throttle request or not and then send it via CAN.

3.) A Power distribution Board: to get a stable 12V output from a Lead acid battery across different loads.

For these systems, we require numerous PCBs and we would be glad to have the support of PCBWay in manufacturing the PCBs required in this car!