IIT Delhi develops environment-friendly, smart and modular electric vehicle charger

IIT Delhi researchers have developed a 20 kW Smart EV charging station. The environment-friendly, smart, scalable and modular electric vehicle charger can charge a wide range of EVs like cars, three-wheelers and two-wheelers.

IIT Delhi researchers at the Smart Grid Lab of the Department of Electrical Engineering have developed a truly modular, scalable, and environmentally friendly Electric Vehicle (EV) charging station with in-built solar photovoltaic interface capability. The 20 kW Smart EV charging station is an outcome of the ‘Demonstration of Grid Supportive EV Charger and Charging Infrastructure at LT Level (D-EVCI)’ project funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. It is a multi-functional charger of 20 kW, with the capability of charging a wide range of EVs like cars, three-wheelers and two-wheelers. According to the Principal Investigator of the project, Prof. Sukumar Mishra, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi, “The scalable multi-functional charger caters to the emerging EV charging needs of both today’s and tomorrow’s electric vehicles. There has been a demand from both the automobile industry and EV charger operators for ease of scalability in their charging units."