The concept of the integrated onboard battery charger (IOBC) provides electric vehicles (EVs) with access to the integration of the drivetrain and the charger. In this paper, an IOBC based on a six-phase drive is studied. In the charging mode, the IOBC is equivalent to a paralleled three-phase voltage source rectifier (PTP-VSR) with common
The design and implementation of a high-efficiency nonisolated single-stage on-board battery charger (OBC) for electric vehicles are presented. Reviewing the conventional topologies, a suitable circuit structure is determined to charge a battery in a wide spectrum of input and output conditions. Additionally, a suitable strategy for a highly
Currently, the main technical weaknesses of Electrical Vehicle (EV) are the limitation of the on-board energy storage and the time to recharge it. Despite of recent improvements in batteries, these drawbacks as well as the cost make the EV not yet attractive. Real challenges for Power Electronics engineers are not only the cost
Longer driving ranges of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) and battery electric vehicles (BEV) are achieved by increasing the battery capacities and energy efficiencies of electric components. Typical development targets are efficient power conversion for 400 V and 800 V systems, power density, reliability, and bi-directional (instead of unidirectional)
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Charging EVs with a portable charger is not as simple as charging a cell phone with an external battery — basically, most EV chargers function by converting a standard wall outlet into something powerful enough to sufficiently charge your EV.
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This study proposes an electric vehicle (EV) battery charger with a fixed frequency zero-current-switching (ZCS) series loaded resonant converter (SRC). Owing to the proposed fixed frequency
In [], authors present the design and installation of a battery charger for electric vehicle, which uses Landsman converter instead of diode converter in conventional charger. A SiC bidirectional LLC charger architecture is developed in [ 9 ] and also obtained a digital adaptive synchronous rectification driving method, which can be provided high
Review of battery charger topologies, charging power levels, and infrastructure for plug-in electric and hybrid vehicles IEEE Trans. Power Electron., 28 ( 5 ) ( 2013 ), pp. 2151 - 2169, 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2212917
Manufacturers want high power density for the on-board battery chargers of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Wide bandgap devices can be used to shrink other passive components by increasing the switching frequency, but the bulk dc link capacitor of the ac-dc power factor correction stage, becomes one of the major barriers to higher
A novel bi-directional battery charger for PHEV/EV with a photovoltaic generation system was proposed and the operation algorithm of the battery charger system was studied (Choe et al. 2010). The
1 Introduction Recently, battery technology has been improving in the applications of electric vehicles (EVs). Thereby the EVs battery chargers are critical for the applications of high-power density
The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) of United States, and GuoBiao (GB) of China are the three most common conductive charging standards for EVs. In addition, CHAdeMO is a DC quick charging standard which was developed in Japan.
This form of charging allows for a reduction in battery size by approximately 20%, leading to lighter and more cost-effective electric vehicles []. Additionally, in-motion charging offers extended driving range and the possibility of using long metal plates as transmission paths, which enhances performance in misalignment
Final Circuit. 21.1 Each final circuit of EV charging facility shall be installed as a separate radial circuit of the fixed electrical installation. 21.2 Electric cable for the final circuit shall be protected by means of metal sheath or armour, or installed in steel/plastic/PVC conduits.
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Portable electric car chargers that plug into an outlet. General Characteristics: Charge your EV by plugging it into the wall. Variations: Differing voltages and levels. Socket type. Charging rate. EV plug-in: J1772 or Tesla. Ability to be mounted. Best Level-1 portable devices (120 volts)
E-charge has set up electric car chargers in Hong Kong, Kowloon, and New Territories for their members to use. Most of them are free, but some require payment and reservation. Transportation Department (EV charger locations)
To improve the charging efficiency, EPD has progressively upgraded standard chargers to medium chargers in the past few years (as compared with standard chargers, medium chargers can reduce the charging time by up to 60%).
Modeling and control of a 50KW Electric Vehicle battery fast charger Power Factor Correction stage, developed at Gamatronic Electronic Industries LTD, is presented in the paper. The charger
These are multi-protocol, programmable chargers that support CCS2 for fast charging. Payments by smart phone or RFID card are simple and secure thanks to the seamless interaction with numerous
A dual purpose, high power, off-board battery charger for electric vehicles is presented. For higher viability and increased usage of the charger, grid conditioning capabilities are included in the concept. Conventional power electronic converter topologies are used in a new application, which combines fast EV battery charging with active filtering.
This paper proposes a non-fragile control approach for a non-isolated two-switch buck-boost converter used as an on-board charger for electric vehicles. The control scheme is based on a cascaded two-loop configuration with non-fragile Proportional Integral controllers in the inner current and the outer voltage loop.
Battery charger plays an important role in the battery and electric vehicle technology. Due to on-board type of charger it should be light in weight and should occupy less space as it should be on the vehicle all the time, so the smaller the better and of course, it is very important to minimize the cost of the charger. For a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle
In this study, an integral battery charger is proposed, which fully uses the hardware of the four-wheel drive electric vehicle. It has no extra component except a mechanical transfer switch. The inverters and the traction motors for the propulsion of the vehicle are transformed to a battery charger. It is verified by a prototype experiment that the
Dual Battery Charger System for Electric Vehicle. August 2021. DOI: 10.1109/ICESC51422.2021.9532862. Conference: 2021 Second International Conference on Electronics and Sustainable Communication
This paper proposes a design for the Bidirectional electric vehicle charger which is capable of doing both the Grid to Vehicle and Vehicle to Grid power transfer, and the interaction will be made through an automatic smart energy management system (EMS). A simple power electronics topology is used. The user can adjust the output of this
On the other hand, off-board charger has larger size and is installed at fixed location. In this paper, the proposed EV battery charger is designed as a bidirectional V2G charger, which allows
A battery charger can allow a unidirectional or bidirectional power flow at all power levels. The bidirectional power flow adds to the grid-to-vehicle interaction (G2V) also the vehicle-to-grid (V2G) mode [].This latter technology can bring significant improvement in the
The Grizzl-E charger is relatively compact and lightweight, measuring 6.25 by 10.25 by 3.5 inches (not including the cord) and weighing just 20 pounds (about as much as a small dog crate —or a
This paper proposes intelligent control of high-efficiency two-stage battery charger topology for electric vehicles (EVs). In the first stage, for low harmonics of input current, high power factor and high efficiency, the average current mode controlled ac/dc boost power factor (pf) correction method constructed and analyzed with 98% efficiency
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This paper proposes a single-phase reconfigurable battery charger for an electric vehicle (EV) that operates in three different modes: grid-to-vehicle (G2V) mode, in which the traction batteries are charged from the power grid; vehicle-to-grid (V2G) mode, in which the traction batteries deliver part of the stored energy back to the power grid; and
For instance, the Tiago EV has an optional 7.2kW charger that can charge the 24kWh battery from 10-100 percent in 3 hours 35 minutes, whereas the standard 3.3kW charger takes 6 hours 20 minutes
After 28 hours of research and 85 hours of testing, we found the United Chargers Grizzl-E to be the best at-home charger for EVs with a J1772 port, whereas the Tesla Wall Connector is best for
This article proposes a simple and effective method to reduce the bulky capacitor in onboard battery charger (OBC) where low-voltage (LV) battery charging circuit is utilized as an active power decoupling (APD) circuit to filter out the second-order ripple power. When the OBC is connected to the grid to charge the high-voltage (HV) battery, the switches on
In this paper, an on-board three-phase battery charger suitable for smart grids is presented. A novel control strategy is developed and then applied to a very simple topology in order to check that it allows bi-directional operation, charging of the battery and feeding power from the vehicle to the grid (V2G). The V2G technology is crucial from
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