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Lookup NU author(s): Binh VuORCiD, Professor Volker Pickert, Dr Mohamed Dahidah
This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an article that has been published in its final definitive form by IEEE, 2021.
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Electric Vehicles (EVs) are gaining more and more user acceptances due to their clean, efficient and environmentally friendly nature. Currently, most commercial EVs use conductive charging for their batteries. Inductive charging, which is an alternative charging technology, has recently received a great deal of attention because of its increased user convenience and safety. It is forecast that the two charging technologies will be implemented in future charging infrastructures globally. Consequently, future EVs need to be capable of dealing with both charging methods. So far, there has been only a very few charging topologies reported in the literature that describe both charging methods in the same vehicle. However, solutions that have been proposed do not show significant component reduction. This paper proposes a hybrid charger system where the high frequency transformer of an on-board DC-DC converter becomes the coupling point between conductive and inductive charging. Using this coupling point, the circuit utilizes the same components for conductive and for inductive charging. This results in the reduction of component count and therefore improved integration. The proposed system is verified by both simulation and experiment. For the experiment, a 3-kW prototype has been built and tested. A maximum efficiency of 97.4% and 93.6% was achieved in conductive and inductive mode, respectively.
Author(s): Vu VB, González-González JM, Pickert V, Dahidah MSA, Triviño A
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
Year: 2021
Volume: 68
Issue: 12
Pages: 12021-12033
Print publication date: 01/12/2021
Online publication date: 08/12/2020
Acceptance date: 14/11/2020
Date deposited: 20/11/2020
ISSN (print): 0278-0046
ISSN (electronic): 1557-9948
Publisher: IEEE
URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2020.3042162
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2020.3042162
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