A Review on Power Electronics Converter for Electrical Vehicle

An Electric Vehicles (EV), also referred to as an Electric Drive Vehicle (EDV), is a vehicle which uses one or more electric motors for propulsion. Based on the air pollution regulations in the Asia – Pacific, USA, Europe as well as a lot of countries in the world, the fossil-fueled vehicles have been targeted as the major source of emissions that create air pollution leading to the global warming crisis. The oil resources in the earth are limited and the new discoveries of it are at a slower pace than the increase in demand especially with the increase in the world population so that the necessity for substitutes is becoming critical. Electrifying transportation is a promising approach to alleviate the climate change issue. With the increasing interests on energy efficiency, energy cost, and environmental protection, the development of Electric Vehicles (EVs) technology has been obvious nowadays. The technologies involved in EVs are diversified and include electrical and electronics engineering, control engineering, automotive engineering, and chemical engineering. EVs depend on which called electric propulsion, in which an Electric Motor is used to drive the vehicle instead of the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) and the energy sources are batteries, fuel cells, or capacitors as an alternative of gasoline or diesel fuel in the conventional ICE vehicles. Thus, Power Electronics Technology (PET) plays an important role in the Electrical Propulsion System (EPS) in order to efficiently drive the electric motor of the vehicle and control the power converters and the associated electronic circuits. An outline of the present status of Power Electronic Drives (PED) for EVs and current research trends in EV motors, power converters, and energy storage systems will be conversed. Challenges linked with designing, controlling, and operating the Power Electronic Modulator (PEM) used in EVs will be also talk over showing the newest attainments in this fiel