A vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) energy swapping strategy can provide an alternative fast charging way for gridable electric vehicles (GEVs) to relieve the charging overload problem in the power system during peak-demand hours. The main challenges in designing an efficient V2V energy swapping strategy are i) to stimulate mobile GEVs to participate in an energy swapping transaction that balances suppl...

The expected increase in the penetration of electric vehicles (EV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) will produce unbalanced conditions, reactive power consumption and current harmonics drawn by the battery charging equipment, causing a great impact on the power quality of the future smart grid. A single-phase semi-fast electric vehicle battery charger is proposed in this paper. This ...

Hastening the power industry toward smart operation juxtaposed with the unrivaled restructuring and privatization agendas, some of the ubiquitous smart grid advantages are glanced more and more. Recently, the vehicle to grid (V2G) technology, as one of these beneficial aspects, has found a worldwide attention due to its important advantages. The V2G technology can raise the system operation eff...

As the number of electric vehicles on world's roads explodes, utilities are grappling with increasing demand while simultaneously having to stabilize their grids where more intermittent renewable-energy sources like wind and solar coming online. For looking for ways store power later use, all those shiny new EVs might look rolling batteries that they can not only charge but also draw from when ...

The utilization of electric vehicles has been suggested to support the frequency regulation of power system. Assuming that an intermediate aggregator exists, this study suggests a decentralized vehicle-to-grid operation scheme in which each vehicle-to-grid aggregator can behave independently of the power system operator. To implement this type of decentralized operation, this study adopts a pri...