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Suitability of Switched Capacitor Converters for Electric Vehicle Energy Storage
Abstract:
Novel topologies and intelligent balancing strategies for electric vehicle and plug-in hybrid electric vehicle energy storage system applications are proposed in this paper. The focus is on switched capacitor bidirectional DC/DC converter topologies, to reduce balancing time and number of switches required.
Keywords:
Battery storage; control; electric vehicles; energy management; power electronics; switched capacitor converters; voltage equalizers.