Realistic Power Electronics Converters for Electric Vehicles

Increasing the carbon emission in environment has become a major concern for the government. For promoting a clean and green environment with reduction in carbon emission by vehicles, the Government of India aspires with 100 percent electric passenger vehicle mobility by the year 2030 in the country. There is an essential requirements for fast charging stations to meet this demand as large numbers of electric vehicles to be running on the roads. In this paper, we review the state of the art in electric vehicles (EVs) charging topologies which will be necessary to support future EV refueling. Some power converter topologies are also reviewed appropriate to deliver the fast charging. DC-DC universal converter is unified converter for charging the battery and power management on buck/boost plugin operations of EVs. SiC and GaN devices are attractive to be used in the fast charging due to lower switching loss, faster switching frequency and higher operating temperature.