Power electronic interface for vehicular electrification

Electrification of vehicles is considered a promising technology for future sustainable transportation system. Electric, hybrid electric, and fuel cell vehicles have attracted attention of researchers, automobile manufacturers, governments and consumers as an alternative of internal combustion engine based vehicles. Electrification of vehicular technology (EVT) depends on suitable integration of electrical, mechanical, chemical and electronics engineering. Thus the integration of different components from different fields is a major challenge and is a growing concern in the roadmap of vehicle electrification. Power electronic converters and switches are playing a very significant role in incorporating different components and provide compatibility for proper coordination among them to meet vehicles requirement in all driving profiles. In this paper, important issues related to power electronic converters as heart of electric propulsion system are presented. To study the responsibility of power electronics converters, architecture of different electrified vehicles has been reviewed. The present status and future challenges of power electronic converters as well as electric propulsion system are discussed briefly.