Photovoltaic based inverter charger

Abstract

The role of energy conversion within the transportation sector becomes more and more important due to increasing consumption efficiency demands for cars and trucks. Especially for electrical drive trains (e-drive train), which are topic of this talk, a lot of work is going on to achieve this goal. In e-drive train setups higher electrical power compared to combustion driven truck’s or car’s standard drive trains is converted. Besides in these systems complexity and costs are rising, mainly originating from very expensive electrical energy storages – the accumulators. Taking all these boundary conditions into account, up to date there is the demand for maximized energy conversion efficiencies on system level to succeed in market. Beside the electrical conversion process, also size and weight of the care are key parameters.