High-efficiency regenerative shock absorbers considering twin ball screws transmission for increasing the vehicles’ driving range using a hybrid approach

This article proposes a hybrid system for increasing the electric vehicles’ (EVs) driving range considering regenerative shock absorbers. The proposed hybrid approach is a combination of atomic orbital search (AOS) and wild horse optimizer (WHO); later, it was called AOSWHO method. The major objectives of the proposed work are to extend vehicle range, reduce the charging time of the vehicle, reduce the battery size, and increase the efficiency of vehicle. In this proposed work, linear Permanent magnet (PM) generators are used as the sole instrument and on-board source is utilized to absorb vibration energy of the moving vehicle. Here, the proposed method has four key modules: (a) suspension vibration input, (b) transmission mechanism, (c) generator module, and (d) power storage. A suspension vibration is mostly pretentious by road roughness and speed vibration, which is optimally handled by the proposed hybrid technique. The conversion of the alternating linear vibration into unidirectional rotation of generator shaft is processed by proposed hybrid technique. Based on the volume and efficiency of the dampers, a small volume, brushless DC motor with low rotor inertia is selected to produce electricity. By then, the proposed AOSWHO run on MATLAB site and its performance is related to several existing systems. From the simulation result, it is concluded that proposed system delivers an State of Charge (SOC) of 40.33, which is high compared to existing approaches.