Electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming more popular due to the rapid depletion in petroleum reserves and greenhouse emissions from conventional vehicles. For successful widespread adoption of EVs, proper charging infrastructure/facilities to recharge the batteries whenever the need arises without much of location constraint is required. The charging facilities consist generally of electrical distribution feeders/circuits, distribution transformers, chargers, measuring equipment, connectors, etc. The location where such facilities are available is known as EV charging stations or charging points. In general, two types of charging points are widely used to recharge vehicles. They are residential charging (EVs for personal use mostly) and public charging (mostly for commercial vehicles). Mostly, the public charging points are fast‐charging points and the fast chargers are used to recharge the EVs battery in lesser time as compared with residential charging. The need for fast chargers in public places is due to the floating nature of the population and the need to reduce wait time for the consumers. This would be critical for majority of the floating population and the long‐term success of adopting EVs for regular usage. It is essential to design the electrical distribution to cater to the varying load requirements demanded by fast chargers based on state of charge (SoC) of the batteries. Also, reliability is one of the factors in the selection of electrical distribution for fast‐charging stations. This chapter discusses the electrical distribution for a fast‐charging station with considering the redundancy.
Electric Distribution for Fast‐Charging Infrastructure
03.07.2023
27 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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