Enhancing Electric Vehicle Charging Efficiency Using a Modified Zeta-KY Converter Inspired By Ant Lion Optimization

Electric vehicles (EVs) are anticipated to play a significant role in the energy transition in the world’s automotive sector. Due to their reduced reliance on fossil fuels and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, electric vehicles (EVs) are essential to the development of a sustainable transportation system. The increased load request, effects on power quality, and losses of electricity that result from a high degree of electric car integration into the distribution system, however, have created a number of issues for the operation of the power grid, safety, and planning the network. Additional chargers are needed as EV use grows, so a photovoltaic (PV) based EV charging system has been put in place because PV energy production is practical on a global scale. As a result, the proposed work creates an enhanced DC-DC converter-based PV-based EV charging system. The limited PV voltage output is improved into a greater voltage using a Modified Zeta-KY converter. The Converter operation is controlled by employing the Ant Lion Optimized Proportional Integral (ALO-PI) controller, which is particularly effective at reducing the unpredictable nature of PV output. The ALO approach also performs well in terms of convergence, local optima avoidance, exploration, and exploitation. The ALO approach is therefore ideally adapted to handle various peak levels in PV systems. The Modified Zeta-KY Converter has a higher efficiency than the other converters, with a 97.2% rating, and is the topology for the Modified Zeta-KY Converter that has been presented. It is noted that a reduced THD of 1.19% is attained, which is extremely low compared to other converters and satisfies the requirements of the IEEE standards.