Title: A comparison of different DC-DC converter topology for electric vehicle charging

Authors: Manaswi Srivastava; Arun Kumar Verma; Pavan Singh Tomar

Addresses: Department of Electrical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India ' Department of Electrical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India ' Department of Electrical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Abstract: The DC-DC converter with soft switching technique is now a widely accepted industrial application/electric vehicle. But it also deteriorate from some problems like duty cycle loss, conduction loss, circulating current loss, narrow range of soft switching, and voltage ringing. Some methods are proposed to rectify these problems to make the DC-DC converter more efficient. In this paper, typical auxiliary networks are analysed and classified. The features and limitations of the DC-DC converters are compared. Finally, the characteristics of the DC-DC converter are summarised to choose the best topological architecture for electric vehicle application.

Keywords: auxiliary network; electric vehicle; EV; topology; soft switching; zero voltage and zero current switching; ZVZCS; zero voltage switching; ZVS.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPELEC.2021.111856

International Journal of Power Electronics, 2021 Vol.13 No.1, pp.21 - 44

Received: 12 Dec 2017
Accepted: 06 Jul 2018
Published online: 17 Dec 2020 *

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