A Survey on Charging Station Architectures for Electric Transportation

This paper presents a detailed review on different architecture topologies for Electric Vehicle (EV) charging station. The proposed paper enables to have a solid reference on electric transportation charging station topologies on different levels starting from the infrastructure of common bus to types of chargers and power flow uni/bi-directionality. Besides, two detailed comparative analyses on recent proposed EV architecture topologies based multilevel converters as Cascaded H-Bridge (CHB) and Neutral Point Clamped (NPC) converters are elaborated. The presented CHB analysis tackles enhancements’ attempts on charging time, balancing batteries’ State-Of-Charge (SOC), reducing power losses and balancing capacitors’ voltages. However, the presented NPC analysis includes attempts in improving NPC’s limited voltage balance operation, balancing the bipolar DC bus, regulating load disturbances, enhancing power quality and power utilization. The two analyses are summarized in two comparison tables to sum up the aim and the enhancement of each presented attempt.