Design and Evaluation of IBC for EV Applications

Electric vehicles (EVs) have gained popularity due to their eco-friendly nature. This paper discusses the types of EVs along with the charger types and their power levels. The battery electric vehicles (BEVs), fuel cell electric vehicles (FCHEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) are discussed. Furthermore, the AC-DC converters and various DC-DC converter topologies that are essential for EV chargers are explained with their pros and consequences. A non-isolated conventional DC-DC boost converter and two-phase interleaved boost converter (IBC) is designed and analyzed in the MATLA
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/Simulink environment. The result shows that the IBC has low ripples in the input current and the output voltage. Thus, they are more suitable as compared to conventional DC-DC converter.