High efficiency three-phase soft-switching inverter for electric vehicle drives

5th IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference, VPPC '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 761-766

  Sun, Pengwei ^a   Lai, Jih Sheng ^a   Qian, Hao ^a   Yu, Wensong ^a   Smith, Chris ^b   Bates, John ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Azure Dynamics   (United States)

Author keywords

Electricvehicle drives; High efficiency; Soft switching inverter

Indexed keywords

AUXILIARY DEVICE; CLOSED-LOOP; COOLMOS; ELECTRIC VEHICLE DRIVE; HIGH EFFICIENCY; LOAD RANGE; SOFT-SWITCHING INVERTERS; TORQUE DIRECTION;

ACTIVE FILTERS; AUTOMOBILES; ELECTRIC VEHICLES; PROPULSION; SOFT SWITCHING; SWITCHING;

ELECTRIC DRIVES;

EID: 72149090097     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VPPC.2009.5289773     Document Type: Conference Paper

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