Electric Vehicles at Scale (EVs@Scale) Laboratory Consortium Deep-Dive Technical Meetings: High Power Charging (HPC) Summary Report

Andrew Meintz, Lee Slezak, Sam Thurston, Barney Carlson, Alastair Thurlbeck, John Kisacikoglu, Prasad Kandula, Brian Rowden, Madhu Chinthavali, Rafal Wojda, Jonathan Harter, Steven Campbell, Christian Boone, Akram Ali, Emin Ucer

Research output: NRELPresentation

Abstract

Electric vehicle (EV) adoption will change the composition of EV charging load to higher-power charging as more medium- (MD) and heavy-duty (HD) applications are electrified, and as all vocations, including light-duty (LD) vehicles, are capable of faster charging. These shifts provide the opportunity for high-power charging (HPC) and facility equipment to evolve and improve efficiency, cost, and space. High-Power Electric Vehicle Charging Hub Integration Platform (eCHIP) project designs and develops a high-power, interoperable charging experimental platform to research, develop, and demonstrate the integration approaches and technology solutions. The project addresses (1) interconnection and management of a grid-tied inverter; (2) development of a DC distribution system that is responsible for system energy management, interoperability, and DC protection; (3) modular DC/DC conversion for vehicle charging; (4) EV charging interface and DC/DC integration; and (5) smart charge control and vehicle-to-edge (vehicle-to-building [V2B], vehicle-to-everything [V2X]) capability. This summary presentation is the first technical progress output of the project. It provides insight for the first deep-dive technical meeting outputs in terms of research presentations and also includes summary of the discussions occurred in the follow-up breakout sessions. The summary presentation covers three technical areas: (1) HPC: State of the art power architectures and the design of the power electronics, (2) Modeling, energy management, and power control in the HPC station, and (3) Next Generation Profiles for high power charging characterization.
Original languageAmerican English
Number of pages135
StatePublished - 2023

Publication series

NamePresented at the EVs@Scale Deep Dive Technical Meeting, 2 May 2023

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/PR-5400-86407

Keywords

  • charging analysis and control
  • charging station design
  • charging station facility
  • electric vehicles
  • EV charging codes and standards
  • high power charging
  • site energy management
  • site-level control

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