In this thesis, innovative power management schemes have been proposed to leverage the distributed participation of EVs and DCs for grid frequency sup- port. Consequently, four different schemes have been designed based on hierarchical control structure in lieu of grid frequency stabilization.

Uniti aims at providing a smart solution to urban commute, something which is sustainable, fun and in step with the strides made in technology. This involved starting from a clean slate and attacking the very fundamental problem; a two-ton machine meant for carrying four to five people being used by only one person for majority of its lifespan, which makes all the more less sense in an urban environment.

In the first part of the thesis, the author presented data collected in the city of Bangalore, India from a very commonly seen mode of transportation for hire in India and other emerging economies, namely a three-wheeled vehicle known as the “auto-rickshaw”. From a statistical analysis, it is shown that the typical range is 72.5 km with a mean speed of 12.5 km/h.

In this thesis, a stackable cell monitoring device which can monitor 7 cells per IC has been designed, fabricated and evaluated for performance. The IC has a 12-bit SAR ADC to measure individual cell voltages and temperature.

As we are observing very grim situation of over 1.2 million deaths occur in the country every year as a result of air pollution, Global energy-related CO2 emissions grew by 1.4% in 2017, reaching a historic high of 32.5 gigatonnes. To overturn this situation a paradigm shift is needed in fossil fuel based transportation system to electric mobility.

This work emphasizes the utilization of plug-in electric vehicle as a backup power supply for residential loads in developing and underdeveloped countries as a part of the residential microgrid, without affecting its operation as an electric vehicle.

The search of clean energy technology, that embraces energy storage and conversion, can play the foremost vital role in overcoming fuel exhaustion and international pollution for the sustainable development of human society.

This work concentrates on the use of easy to implement controller design to match the computing capacity of the low cost and low power embedded computing technologies available in current vehicles.

​​​​​​​In this work, an effort is made to design an embedded system to notify the occurrence of accident.

The centralized transport system of Kolkata Metropolitan City exhibits the dependency on mass transport services.