Dynamic Wireless Charging of Electric Vehicles
Road transportation, which accounts for 22 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, is undergoing a major transformation with the advent of ridesharing, autonomous driving, and vehicle electrification. Collectively these technologies, in conjunction with renewable sources of electricity, have the potential to dramatically reduce the negative impact of road transportation on the health of the planet. The successful convergence of these technologies will require electric vehicles that are low cost and fully autonomous. These attributes can be realized through dynamic wireless charging. However, this will require wireless charging technology that is well beyond current capabilities and opens new areas of research related to power and transportation infrastructure. Using examples from research on capacitive wireless charging (as opposed to the more common inductive techniques), which leverage very high frequency power electronics, this talk will highlight the opportunities and challenges in dynamic wireless charging of electric vehicles.
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- Date: 18 May 2023
- Time: 06:00 PM to 08:15 PM
- All times are (UTC-07:00) Arizona
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- 440 N Wolfe Rd
- Sunnyvale, California
- United States 94085
- Starts 06 April 2023 06:48 PM
- Ends 18 May 2023 08:44 PM
- All times are (UTC-07:00) Arizona
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Dr Khurram Afridi
Khurram Afridi is an Associate Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies at the School of
Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. He received the BS degree in
electrical engineering from Caltech, and SM and PhD degrees in electrical engineering and
computer science from MIT. His research interests are in power electronics and wireless power
transfer. His experience includes positions at the University of Colorado Boulder, MIT, LUMS,
Techlogix, Schlumberger, Philips, Lutron, and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He was the
founding Project Director of the LUMS School of Science and Engineering. He is an Associate
Editor of the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, and a
Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. He has received Caltech’s
Carnation Merit Award, the BMW Scientific Award, the LUMS Werner-von-Siemens Chair,
Cornell Engineering Research Excellence Award, and the NSF CAREER Award. He holds
twenty-two US patents and is co-author of six IEEE prize papers.
Biography:
Khurram Afridi is an Associate Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies at the School of
Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. He received the BS degree in
electrical engineering from Caltech, and SM and PhD degrees in electrical engineering and
computer science from MIT. His research interests are in power electronics and wireless power
transfer. His experience includes positions at the University of Colorado Boulder, MIT, LUMS,
Techlogix, Schlumberger, Philips, Lutron, and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He was the
founding Project Director of the LUMS School of Science and Engineering. He is an Associate
Editor of the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, and a
Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. He has received Caltech’s
Carnation Merit Award, the BMW Scientific Award, the LUMS Werner-von-Siemens Chair,
Cornell Engineering Research Excellence Award, and the NSF CAREER Award. He holds
twenty-two US patents and is co-author of six IEEE prize papers.