A Literature Review on Electric Vehicles: Architecture, Electrical Machines for Power Train, Converter Topologies and Control Techniques

Electric Vehicles are becoming order of the day due to its various advantages over normally used IC engine vehicle. The bloom of this particular field is making environment more green and causes less pollution. The main part of EV, which makes it function more competitive is the motor propulsion. The design and drive system for such a machine is an area which is to be concentrated more in order to make the EV system an effective one. An EV is the one which is propelled by electric motors and uses energy stored in batteries. Unlike IC engine vehicles, EV does not produce exhaust gases during its operation, which makes this system more environment friendly. The sources of conventional vehicles like fossil fuel will soon get depleted and there will occur a situation where in the consumers are expected to look for any other alternative. So it is better to work on a focussed manner and switch over to the alternative choice which is Electric Vehicle. The sources for making EV possible are more and it will never get depleted. The proposed work is to carry out a literature survey on design of electrical machines and its drive system used for EV based applications.