The HUMAN Driven VEHICLE association encourages the people to build a vehicle driven by humans. At present, the number of vehicles as well as that of emissions is rising day by day. Since they are running on petrochemical which is becoming an air pollution issue. As everyone knows air pollution also has its bad effect and illness like asthama, etc. There is no question that carbon dioxide emissions from a vehicle exhaust are a problem for the rising rate of global warming, while fuel prices are also growing day by day in India and around the world. As a substitute for such reasons. As everyone knows air pollution also has its bad effect and illness like asthama, etc. There is no question that carbon dioxide emissions from a vehicle exhaust are a problem for the rising rate of global warming, while fuel prices are also growing day by day in India and around the world. As a substitute for such reasons. As everyone knows air pollution also has its bad effect and illness like asthama, etc. There is no question that carbon dioxide emissions from a vehicle exhaust are a problem for the rising rate of global warming, while fuel prices are also growing day by day in India and around the world. As a substitute for such reasons. A Human Powered Flywheel Vehicle runs on human energy by simply piddling. This vehicle having two seater arrangement and there is some special mechanism like some energy is stored in the vehicle as through one of the component and used it via, lever, which gives the thrust to the rider during pickup condition as it reduces man effort. During starting condition when the driver takes pickup to a vehicle. It takes lot of energy to pull the vehicle by piddling. In this HPFV there is such a mechanism when driver prepare for piddling, there is a clutch mounted on the steering and driver will engage the clutch at startup. At this moment after pressing the lever, the linkage connection is followed to the clutch and it gets engaged and driver used to piddle at some desired rpm for store the energy in the flywheel. As this process is completed after disengaging the clutch through by lever all the energy is used to drive the vehicle during startup condition. The main aim of present study is to find different alternatives which replaces the petrochemicals running vehicle and making some more improvement in HUMAN POWERED VEHICLE, applying the things in such a way that people find something attractive in the vehicle which helps implementation easily. Index Terms Automobile, Human Powered Flywheel Vehicle, Pollution, Piddling, Clutch.

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Human Powered Flywheel Energy Vehicle- A Review.

The increasing environmental concerns mostly due to the depletion of fossil fuels and a great deal of airborne pollution have been the prime topics of interest for the researchers. This has led to the development of new transportation alternatives which are in line with the "Go Green" manifesto. One such development is the concept of human powered vehicles (HPVs), transportation machines that use human power as the source of its energy for locomotion. Further development has led to inclusion of ergonomics and aesthetics into their design, which aim at higher value and efficiency. Aerodynamic drag is a major element of obstruction in the efficiency of these vehicles which mostly run by pedalling. The major area of research in this present work will therefore be the optimised design of the fairing, an element of the HPV that contributes heavily to its aerodynamics since it determines the exterior shape of the vehicle. Taking vehicle performance as the major topic of concern, aerodynamic aspects can sometimes turn out to be a greater deciding factor than the mechanical aspects of an HPV because of the immense magnitude of drag experienced by a moving vehicle. This drag reduces the motion to the power transferred ratio, which in turn indicates a drop in efficiency. This raises the requirement of a study which is specially focussed on the aerodynamics of such a vehicle. This would help enhance the comfort for the driver and also aid in pulling up the efficiency of the vehicle. Fairing being the external cover also plays a pivotal role in enhancing its aesthetics. The study conducted was used for fabrication of the vehicles presented in the Human Powered Vehicle Challenge India'14 (HPVC) organised at New Delhi and later the results obtained from the competition were used for the new vehicle, which participated in HPVC East’14 organised at University of Central Florida, USA.

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Apurv Keshav Kedia

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Design of Fairing for Human Powered Vehicles Considering Aerodynamics & Aesthetics