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Multilevel Inverters for Electric Vehicle Applications

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OSTI ID:1746

This paper presents multilevel inverters as an application for all-electric vehicle (EV) and hybrid-electric vehicle (HEV) motor drives. Diode-clamped inverters and cascaded H-bridge inverters, (1) can generate near-sinusoidal voltages with only fundamental frequency switching; (2) have almost no electromagnetic interference (EMI) and common-mode voltage; and (3) make an EV more accessible/safer and open wiring possible for most of an EV'S power system. This paper explores the benefits and discusses control schemes of the cascade inverter for use as an EV motor drive or a parallel HEV drive and the diode-clamped inverter as a series HEV motor drive. Analytical, simulated, and experimental results show the superiority of these multilevel inverters for this new niche.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Industrial Technologies (EE-20) (US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-96OR22464
OSTI ID:
1746
Report Number(s):
ORNL/CP-100152
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English