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This paper presents a cascaded H-bridge multilevel boost inverter for electric vehicle (EV) and hybrid EV (HEV) applications implemented without the use of inductors. Currently available power inverter systems for HEVs use a dc–dc boost converter to boost the battery voltage for a traditional three-phase inverter. A cascaded H-bridge multilevel boost inverter design for EV and HEV applications implemented without the use of inductors is proposed in this paper. The proposed design uses a standard three-leg inverter (one leg for each phase) and an H-bridge in series with each inverter leg which uses a capacitor as the dc power source. Experiments show that the proposed dc–ac cascaded H-bridge multilevel boost inverter can output a boosted ac voltage without the use of inductors.
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Dhayanandh, S., Ramya Sri, A.P., Rajkumar, S., Lavanya, N. (2011). Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Boost Inverter without Inductors for Electric/Hybrid Electric Vehicle Applications. In: Das, V.V., Thomas, G., Lumban Gaol, F. (eds) Information Technology and Mobile Communication. AIM 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 147. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20573-6_28
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