A Comprehensive Review of Machine-Integrated Electric Vehicle Chargers

Mustafa, Uvais; Ahmed, Rishad; Watson, Alan; Wheeler, Patrick; Ahmed, Naseer; Dahele, Parmjeet

Abstract

Electric Vehicles are becoming increasingly popular due to their environment friendly operation. As the demand for electric vehicles increases, it has become quite important to explore their charging strategies. Since charging and traction do not normally occur simultaneously and the power electronics converters for both operations have some similarities, the practice of integrating both charging and traction systems is becoming popular. These types of chargers are termed ‘Integrated Chargers’. The aim of this paper is to review the available literature on the integrated chargers and present a critical analysis of the pros and cons of different integrated charging architectures. Integrated chargers for electric vehicles with three-phase permanent magnet synchronous machines, multi-phase machines and switched reluctance machines were compared. The challenges with the published integrated chargers and the future aspect of the work were been discussed.

Citation

Mustafa, U., Ahmed, R., Watson, A., Wheeler, P., Ahmed, N., & Dahele, P. (2023). A Comprehensive Review of Machine-Integrated Electric Vehicle Chargers. Energies, 16(1), Article 129. https://doi.org/10.3390/en16010129

• Journal Article Type: Review
• Acceptance Date: Dec 19, 2022
• Online Publication Date: Dec 22, 2022
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2023
• Deposit Date: Mar 31, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 31, 2023
• Journal: Energies
• Electronic ISSN: 1996-1073
• Publisher: MDPI AG
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 1
• Article Number: 129
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/en16010129
• Keywords: Electric vehicle; integrated chargers; traction converters; battery charging; multi-phase machine
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/15436662
• Publisher URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/1/129
• Additional Information: Copyright: © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).