Electric Vehicle Propulsion Drives and Charging Systems

This book covers the introduction, theory, development, and applications of hybrid and electric vehicles and their charging infrastructures. It also discusses the real applications of power converters and electric drives to give the readers a flavour of how to design propulsion drives and fast charging systems for electric vehicles. It further covers important topics such as static and dynamic wireless charging systems, battery management, and battery swapping systems for electric vehicles.

This book:

• Presents comprehensively different types of electric vehicles and their powertrain architecture.
• Highlights modern optimization techniques such as genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, particle swarm optimization, and ant colony optimization.
• Discusses different charging methods such as wired and wireless for a variety of batteries including lead acid, lithium-ion, and vanadium redox.
• Covers grid-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-grid, and vehicle-to-vehicle bidirectional power flow analysis.
• Showcases power 2X technologies such as power-to-ammonia, power-to-chemicals, power-to-fuel, power-to-gas, and power-to-hydrogen.

The text is primarily written for senior undergraduate and graduate students as well as academic researchers in the fields of electrical engineering, electronics, and communications engineering.

Kundan Kumar is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT Manipur. He has done his B. Tech. from the Institute of Engineering and Technology, Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly in 2008. He has received the M. Tech. degree from NIT Jamshedpur, Jamshedpur, India, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Padova, Padova, Italy, both in Electrical Engineering, in 2010 and 2016, respectively.

Ambrish Devanshu received his B.Tech. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the School of Engineering, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, Kerala, India in 2011. Where he had completed his major project in the lead center of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) under the Department of Space (DOS), Government of India, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC). From September 2011 to June 2014, he served as a Project Engineer in Wipro Technologies, Greater Noida, and India. Thereafter, he joined as a full-time PhD in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Delhi Technological University (DTU), Delhi, India and got awarded his PhD degree in 2019. In 2020, he joined National Institute of Technology Patna as an assistant professor. In 2022, he joined National Institute of Technology Silchar and currently working there as an Assistant Professor.

Sanjeet K. Dwivedi is Fellow of IET (UK) & working as Senior Technology Manager in Green Hydrogen Danish MNC Everfuel A/S. Prior to this he was Senior Research Leader at Danfoss, Denmark from 2008 to 2021. Prior to this, Dr. Sanjeet was an electrical engineer in Larsen and Toubro, an infrastructure company in India (1991-92), Electrical Engineer in CPWD, Government of India (GoI). He worked as senior faculty member of the Department of Technical Education, MP, India (1993-2006) and Dean R&D, Government Engineering College SAGAR MP India(2006-2008) Dr Sanjeet has awarded with two master degrees, first one from IIT Roorkee, ME (Gold Medal) in Power Apparatus and Drives and second one from South Denmark University, M.Sc. Engineering in Innovation and Business. He has completed his Ph.D. degree in Green Technologies from IIT Delhi India.