ABSTRACT
Power electronics plays an important role in the plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. A plug-in hybrid electric vehicle is a hybrid electric vehicle, the battery of which can be recharged by plugging it into an external source of electric power, as well as by its onboard engine and generator. Saurada and Khaligh introduced a novel approach toward the integration of propulsion machine inverter with energy storage charger in a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) come with batteries that are charged by the AC. The two-stage integrated converter reduces the number of inductors, with the cost of more switches and slightly lower efficiency. The simulation results show that the converter has the capability of operating in four modes, i.e., plug-in charging of an add-on battery, vehicle-to-grid, boost operation from an add-on battery to high-voltage DC-bus of the PHEV, and buck operation for regenerative charging of the add-on battery.
