Emerging Wireless Charging Systems for Electric Vehicles - Achieving High Power Transfer Efficiency: A Review

Electric vehicles (EVs) are increasingly purchased worldwide, however, several issues, such as the limited driving range, battery deterioration, unavailability of charging stations etc, present barriers for advancement of EVs. To overcome the range anxiety of EVs, it's crucial to develop its advanced charging infrastructure. In this paper, a literature review is conducted on EV wireless charging systems with the focus on achieving high power transfer efficiency. A general classification of wireless charging techniques is firstly presented; various state-of-the-art wireless charging techniques reported in the literature are summarized and compared.

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