Improving the Overall Efficiency of Automotive Inverters Using a Multilevel Converter Composed of Low Voltage Si mosfets

F Chang, O Ilina, M Lienkamp… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to improve the driving range and reduce the cost of battery electric vehicles through
a higher efficiency, this paper proposes to adopt multilevel converters using low-voltage Si …

Efficiency improvement of permanent magnet synchronous motor for electric vehicles

Y Yang, Q He, C Fu, S Liao, P Tan - Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs), which are widely used in electric
vehicles, have advantages such as high efficiency and power density. However, owing to …

An integrated power conversion system for electric traction and V2G operation in electric vehicles with a small film capacitor

Z Wang, Y Zhang, S You, H Xiao… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An integrated power conversion system is proposed for electric vehicles (EVs), which
consists of a dual active bridge (DAB) dc-dc converter cascaded by a three-phase four-leg …

PMSM drive system efficiency optimization using a modified gradient descent algorithm with discretized search space

C Lai, G Feng, J Tian, Z Li, Y Zuo… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates efficiency optimization in a permanent magnet synchronous
machine (PMSM) drive system, including the motor and the power converter. At first, the …

Torque distribution of a four in-wheel motors electric vehicle based on a PMSM system model

D Wu, Y Li, J Zhang, C Du - Proceedings of the Institution of …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This study investigates a method for determining the torque distribution between front and
rear in-wheel motors in an electric vehicle to improve energy efficiency. The method is …

Multi-source inverter for power-split hybrid electric powertrains

L Dorn-Gomba, J Guo, A Emadi - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Some electrified vehicles, for example the Toyota Prius, integrate a dc-dc converter between
the battery pack and the traction inverter to increase the powertrain efficiency. However …

Coupled electromagnetic-thermal analysis for predicting traction motor characteristics according to electric vehicle driving cycle

SW Hwang, JY Ryu, JW Chin, SH Park… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The accuracy of motor characteristics prediction according to driving cycle can be improved
by taking temperature change of motor into account. From this point of view, this paper …

[HTML][HTML] A bidirectional versatile buck–boost converter driver for electric vehicle applications

C González-Castaño, C Restrepo, S Kouro… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
This work presents a novel dc-dc bidirectional buck–boost converter between a battery pack
and the inverter to regulate the dc-bus in an electric vehicle (EV) powertrain. The converter …

[HTML][HTML] Efficiency optimization and control strategy of regenerative braking system with dual motor

Y Yang, Q He, Y Chen, C Fu - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
The regenerative braking system of electric vehicles can not only achieve the task of braking
but also recover the braking energy. However, due to the lack of in-depth analysis of the …

[HTML][HTML] Performance Comparison of Si IGBT and SiC MOSFET Power Module Driving IPMSM or IM under WLTC

H Umegami, T Harada, K Nakahara - World Electric Vehicle Journal, 2023 - mdpi.com
The cumulative inverter losses and power consumption of a silicon insulated gate bipolar
transistor (Si IGBT) and three types of silicon carbide metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect …