Design considerations for charge equalization of an electric vehicle battery system

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 28-35

  Kutkut, Nasser H ^a   Wiegman, Herman L N ^a   Divan, Deepak M ^a   Novotny, Donald W ^a  

^a Power Designers LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Battery charging; Charge equalization; Coaxial winding transformers; Electric vehicles

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038573354     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/28.740842     Document Type: Article

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