New Technology of Ultra-Fast Charging

Dear Colleagues,

Owing to recent technological advancements, growing environmental concerns, and rising oils prices, there is an evolving paradigm shift in the transportation industry. The transportation industry, railroad industry, aircraft/aerospace industry, as well as sea/undersea industry, are moving rapidly towards concentrated system electrification. Electrified transportation provides the option of more efficient operation, more reliability, safety, and smartness. In addition, electric vehicles have higher performance and are more environmentally friendly than conventionally fueled vehicles. Further research on advanced electric transportation technologies is needed in order to push them to commercialization. This Special Issue is focused on electrified transportation, as well as its enabling technologies and related charging infrastructure. Enabling technologies include, power electronic converter topologies for AC/DC fast charging and ultra-fast charging. Advanced topics such as charger control technologies, new architectures, new converter topologies, energy storage systems, robust controllers, and embedded electronics are also encouraged. Authors from academia and industry are invited to submit papers related to technological trends, original solutions and in-progress research on the issues of architecture, new converter topologies (compact and low switching losses), control techniques and management strategies for AC/DC fast chargers. Survey papers, presenting the state-of-the-art are also welcome.

• New electrical power and charger architectures/systems;
• Power electronic converters topologies and control for DC fast and ultra-fast charging;
• Real-time emulation and testing;
• AC/DC fast charging of electric mass transit: Railways, buses, and streetcars;
• Fast charger designs and system-level architectures/concepts for e-drones and electric air transportation;
• Charging schemes (on-board and off-board): Opportunity charging, fast charging, wireless fast charging (contactless/inductive/electrostatic), and/or other novel DC fast charging strategies;
• High-frequency, compact power converter designs (addressing power density);
• Innovative control strategies and pulse width modulation (PWM) techniques for DC chargers;
• Intelligent control and energy management strategies for charging autonomous e-transport/mobility (autonomous e-bikes/e-cars/e-mobility);
• Vehicle-to-grid and renewables interface technologies;
• Energy storage options and transient handling issues—batteries, ultracapacitors, hybrid energy storage systems, and related power electronics/energy management issues.

Prof. Sheldon Williamson
Dr. Ritesh Keshri
Dr. Kaushik Basu
Guest Editors

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