ABSTRACT
The electric vehicles (EVs), especially e-cars, are becoming major attraction to the smart-grid technologies and building energy management techniques due to their vehicle-to-grid (V2G), vehicle-to-home (V2H), vehicle-to-building (V2B), and vehicle-to-office (V2O) functionalities. However, the primary application of an EV charger is battery charging with power factor correction (PFC) and galvanic isolation. As these chargers are an integral part of the EV, with the bidirectional power flow, their power density, efficiency, reliability, and lifetime are vital in improving the performance of the EV. Hence, the challenges in the EV chargers and its recent developments need to be discussed comprehensively. This chapter provides a summary of front-end AC–DC converter topologies and DC–DC converters on their operation and design considerations to provide a broad scope of these converters. It is focused to dispense wide-ranging approach on AC–DC converter with PFC technology to researchers, application engineers, and designers performing on green energy, smart grid, and EV domain. Also, a typical V2H system is developed and demonstrated on MATLAB®/Simulink® platform.
