Design and Simulation of a Wind Turbine Powered Electric Car Charging System for St. John's, NL

Abstract

These days, electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming more and more popular, so there is a need to increase the number of charging stations for EVs all over Newfoundland. St. John's has considerable potential for wind energy conversion systems; that's why it is pretty logical to aim to design a charging station for this city and other places in Newfoundland. The steps of developing such system and its scheme are described, and simulation results are provided in this paper. The designed system consists of a 10kW wind turbine, a hybrid inverter, and battery storage are used to charge a Kia e-Soul.