Table of Contents

Candidate Declaration ................................................................................................................ii

CERTIFICATE ........................................................................................................................ iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ...................................................................................................... iv
ABSTRACT ............................................................................................................................... v
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ................................................................................................... vi
LIST OF FIGURES ................................................................................................................... x
LIST OF TABLES ..................................................................................................................... x
1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 1
1.1 Electric Vehicles .............................................................................................................. 1
1.1.1 Overview of Electric Vehicles ................................................................................... 1
1.1.2 Battery Electric Vehicle, BEV................................................................................... 2
1.1.3 Plug in Hybrid Electric Vehicle, PHEV .................................................................... 2
1.1.4 Recharging a PHEV battery ...................................................................................... 2
1.1.5 Types of power interactions ...................................................................................... 3
1.2 Battery material ................................................................................................................ 3
1.3 Problem statement and motivation ................................................................................... 4
1.4 Outline of Thesis Report .................................................................................................. 5
2. Parameters related to electric vehicles: Literature Review .................................................... 6
2.1 Minimum State of charge: ................................................................................................ 6
2.2 Range Anxiety: ................................................................................................................. 6
2.3 Different types of charging: ............................................................................................. 7
2.3.1 Conductive feeding while driving: ............................................................................ 7
2.3.2 Inductive charging: .................................................................................................... 8
3. V2G Interface as per ISO/IEC 15118 .................................................................................. 10
3.1 Terms and Definitions: ................................................................................................... 10
3.1.1 Charge Point Operator (CPO)................................................................................. 10
3.1.2 Charging Station ...................................................................................................... 10
3.1.3 E-Mobility Account ID (EMAID) .......................................................................... 10
3.1.4 Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) ........................................................... 11
3.1.5 External Identification Means (EIM) ...................................................................... 12
3.1.6 Mobility Operator (MO) .......................................................................................... 12
3.1.7 Plug-and-Charge (PnC) ........................................................................................... 12

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