Overview of Power Electronic Converters in Electric Vehicle Applications

A rapidly growing market of electric vehicles (EVs) has been witnessed in the last decade due to being environmentally friendly, having enough resources, and being cost-efficient. For EV applications, several conductive charging rectifiers, powertrain dc-dc converters, and motor driving inverters have been discussed in this paper. To develop more efficient and environmentally friendly EVs, power converters such as AC-DC, DC-DC, and DC-AC are critical applications of modern power electronics. After this brief review, for the charging section, the Vienna rectifier presents great performance, for the powertrain high-power DC-DC converter section, the multidevice interleaved dc-dc boost converter seems to be an excellent candidate for EV application. For the powertrain DC-AC inverter, the third harmonic injected seven-level inverter can be considered a well-suited candidate for an electric vehicle’s powertrain. In this paper along with the description, the result of these power converters topologies (AC-DC, DC-DC, DC-AC) have been discussed.