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Several wireless charging methods are under development or available as an aftermarket option in the light-duty automotive market. However, there are not a sufficient number of studies detailing the vehicle integration methods, particularly a complete vehicle integration with higher power levels. This paper presents the design, development, implementation, and vehicle integration of wireless power...
In order to improve the performance of the wound field synchronous motor (WFSM), the permanent magnet assist (PM-assist) is investigated in this paper. The effect of the permanent magnet assist is dependent on the inserted position of the permanent magnets. Thus, four models whose permanent magnets are inserted at each different positions are suggested. Then, the most effective position of the permanent...
Lithium-ion battery performance is significantly reduced at low temperatures, where substantially increased resistance reduces power capability and lithium plating causes charging limitations. To reduce the low-temperature limitations of an electric vehicle battery pack, a hybrid energy storage system consisting of a battery pack, an ultracapacitor pack, and a dc/dc converter is investigated. A low-temperature...
Coasting is a fuel-saving driving mode that is usually active when the vehicle slows down. In an electric vehicle (EV), coasting can be achieved by letting the q-axis current to be set to zero. However, braking action often occurs at high speeds when the gas pedal is tipped off. That is, negative torque is produced while the q-axis current is equal to zero. Such a braking torque reduces the coasting...
Commercially available hybrid and electric vehicles are generally using rare earth PM motors because of their compactness and very good efficiency. But the supply security and price volatility of rare-earth materials are still major concerns for the hybrid and electric vehicle industry. Hence, global efforts are underway in several countries on using reduced or non-rare earth materials, developing...
Global sales of electric vehicles passed the 1 million unit mark in 2015. These grid-sourced electric vehicles operators require reliable access to seamless delivery of electricity to their vehicles for dependable transportation. Electrical utilities and other electrical distribution infrastructure owner/operators require the electrical vehicles using their services to be non-disruptive with reasonable...
Important global efforts are underway toward lowering the cost of electric machines for electric and hybrid vehicles by reducing or eliminating the use of rare earth materials which have been experiencing significant price increases and volatility. This paper will present several designs that reduce or eliminate rare-earth materials. All these designs are targeting the same set of specifications of...
Reusing electric vehicle batteries once they have been retired from the automotive application is stated as one of the possible solutions to reduce electric vehicle costs. Many publications in the literature have analyzed the economic viability of such a solution, and some car manufacturers have recently started running several projects to demonstrate the technical viability of the so-called battery...
DC-DC converter in electric vehicle (EV) has higher demand for high efficiency and power density. Faster switching is beneficial to high power density. Gallium nitride (GaN) power transistors have the advantages of faster switching capability, smaller parasitic parameters and better electric parameters, which make them more suitable to achieve higher switching frequency and power density in DC-DC...
It is expected that wide-bandgap devices like silicon carbide MOSFETs and gallium nitride HEMTs could replace Si devices in power electronics converters to reach higher system efficiency, e.g., a 3-phase 380VAC bidirectional battery charger for electric vehicles. This paper uses the conventional half-bridge LLC topology to build a 10kW all-SiC bidirectional charger. As a well-known topology for the...
This paper presents a comprehensive comparison of switched reluctance machines (SRM) with short pitched and full pitched windings for the same machine geometry. A switched reluctance machine designed for off-road vehicles with short-pitched windings is rewound with full-pitched windings and the two winding structures are compared. The effect of number of turns on the torque speed characteristics is...
The purpose of this paper is to analyze and investigate the influence of temperature variation on the characteristics and performance of interior permanent magnet (IPM) machines. The impact of temperature variation on the materials of IPM machines is discussed to show the sources of performance variation. The flux linkages and torque output capability variation as functions of the temperature of are...
In typical traction Electric Vehicle applications, the DC-link voltage varies during transient accelerating and decelerating process in field-weakening region. The calculated reference voltages of current PI regulators tend to be larger than the one in steady state, which will result in the undesired flux-producing current oscillations. This further deteriorates the electromagnetic torque performance...
In this paper, a 25-kW Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) system is considered for in-motion charging of an electric bus. The goal of this research is to derive a control strategy for the primary side of a wireless Electric Vehicle (EV) charger, with the objective to achieve fast dynamics and full control over the primary coil current and the amount of transferred power. To this aim, a dual-loop controller...
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