Overview on energy harvesting and storage systems (EHSS) for future AF vehicles

Abstract

Energy harvesting and storage systems (EHSS) for future AF vehicles are reviewed with emphasis on thermoelectics, organic materials, specifically, dye-sensitized solar cells and polymer batteries. The organic solar cells include solid-state organic solar cells and dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC). The advantages of using such organic EHSS for AF vehicles are their specific performance, its scalability to larger skin area and low-temperature processing route, thus cost-effective however, there are several technical challenges preventing us to develop the organic EHSS in a speedy way.