E-bike battery charging: Methods and circuits

Author

Pellitteri, F. ; Boscaino, V. ; Di Tommaso, A.O. ; Genduso, Fabio ; Miceli, Rosario

Author_Institution

Dept. of Energy, Inf. Eng. & Math. Models, Univ. of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

fYear

2013

fDate

11-13 June 2013

Firstpage

107

Lastpage

114

Abstract

Today, academic and industrial research is focused on innovative battery charging methods to ensure complete mobility of both handheld devices and electric vehicles. Wireless power transfer is actually the leading strategy even if efficiency related issues are to be solved for a successful marketing. In this paper, a wireless battery charging station is proposed for electric assisted pedal bikes. If compared with existing wireless solutions, the proposed system architecture improves power conversion efficiency of the charging equipment. The simulation model of the whole charging station is described in detail. The transmitter, receiver and inductive coupling circuits are described and design criteria are given for further applications. The model is implemented in SPICE simulation environment and simulation results are presented to test the efficiency of the proposed topology.

Keywords

battery powered vehicles; marketing; E-bike battery charging; SPICE simulation environment; academic research; charging equipment; electric vehicles; handheld devices; inductive coupling circuits; industrial research; innovative battery charging methods; marketing; power conversion efficiency; receiver; transmitter; wireless battery charging station; wireless power transfer; Batteries; Couplings; Logic gates; Magnetic resonance; Rectifiers; Wireless communication; inductive power transfer; vehicular and wireless technologies; wireless battery charging; wireless power transfer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Clean Electrical Power (ICCEP), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Alghero

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4429-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCEP.2013.6586975

Filename

6586975