Power Quality Assessment in E-Bus Charging Cycle

The growth of electric vehicles in Latin America represents a challenge in technical terms through the charging infrastructure, but with great ecological and development benefits. Latin America shows to be a favorable territory for the growth and manufacture of electric vehicles EV, in view of the large lithium reserves existing in the region. This work analyzes the impact of different recharging power on the power quality through the recharging of electric buses. The results show that the individual harmonic content increases according to the recharging power, and especially in the final phase, for high state of charge (SoC) of the batteries, but also that higher recharging powers result in lower current total harmonic distortion rates.