An electric vehicle (EV) usually has two main power converters, namely one for the motor drive system and another battery-charging system. Considering similarities between both a new unified converter battery charging of EVs is propounded in this paper. By using single converter, cost, volume, weight electronics are reduced, thus also making possible reduction final price EV. Moreover, proposed...

Regulation service corrects for short-term changes in electricity use that might affect the stability of the power system. It helps match generation and load and adjusts generation output to maintain the desired frequency. Vehicle-togrid (V2G) provides the potential for the system operator to call on the electric vehicle (EV) as a distributed energy resource and offers financial benefits to veh...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has invested considerable research and development (R&D) effort into Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) technology because of the potential fuel displacement offered by the technology. DOE’s PHEV R&D Plan [1], which is driven by the desire to reduce dependence on foreign oil by diversifying the fuel sources of automobiles, describes the various activities...

Workplace charging of electric vehicles (EV) from photovoltaic (PV) panels installed on an office building can provide several benefits. This includes the local production and use of PV energy for charging the EV and making use of dynamic tariffs from the grid to schedule the energy exchange with the grid. The long parking time of EV at the workplace provide the chance for the EV to support the...

Volatile oil prices and increased environmental sensitivity together with political concerns have moved the attention of governments, automobile manufacturers and customers to alternative power trains. From the actual point of view the most promising concepts for future passenger cars are based on the conversion of electrical into mechanical energy. In-wheel motors are an interesting concept to...

Compared with vehicles powered by fuel, electric are more efficient in energy saving, emission reduction, and environmental protection. As a result, it is becoming most important applications the transportation sector. Electric usage growing from day to (EVs) will become reality future. The time taking method of charging an EV becomes major problem accept electronic revolution automobile indust...

An integrated simulation and testing approach is presented to evaluate batteries for electric vehicle (EV) applications. This new approach combines traditional experimental testing with computer simulations to create a cost-effective means to evaluate EV batteries and provide important information that is difficult or impossible to obtain from purely experimental measurements. The present simul...

In this paper, we develop a dynamic innovation diffusion framework to model adoption of full electric vehicles in the Netherlands. Three major phases of adoption are distinguished: introduction, growth and maturity. Adoption stages are further integrated into an SP study to elicit individual preferences for conventional, hybrid and full electric vehicles. We apply a nested logit model to estima...

HIGHLIGHTS Increasing electric vehicles against utility grid energy supplying capacity. Solar Carport system as a solution to provide for EV recharging needs. Performance analysis of real solar carport production. Comparison between production and vehicle consumption day use.

Electric vehicles (EV) have several advantages over traditional internal combustion vehicles, either for environmental or performance reasons. However, the autonomy of these is directly associated to use high energy density batteries, which in turn, limitations related charging time, depth discharge and number charge/discharge cycles. These characteristics increase costs battery wear. a planned...