Powering Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs) with renewable energy results in cleaner and greener transportation. The potential of PEVs to participate in ancillary services and demand side management is explored in this research work.

The thesis develops a model of an aggregation agent as the interface to the wholesale electricity generators, which is envisaged to be in charge of procuring energy in electricity markets, exposed to uncertainty in prices, fleet availability and demand requirements.

This thesis revisits the induction motor (IM) and explores its application from a different perspective.

This thesis proposes three fast charging methodologies for Li-ion batteries employed with a controller.

In this thesis, a stackable cell monitoring device which can monitor 7 cells per IC has been designed, fabricated and evaluated for performance. The IC has a 12-bit SAR ADC to measure individual cell voltages and temperature.

This research relates to the performance analysis of a speed control algorithm suitable for off-road electric vehicles through a STM32 microcontroller based embedded system and enabled by a cross-comparison with on-road vehicle to allow it to find a space in real-time vehicular systems.

The optimized Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) is proposed in this work. As a first step, an optimization algorithm is used to obtain the optimal values for covariance matrices. In the second step, optimized matrix values are injected into the EKF, which confirms the filter accuracy in the SOC estimation.

In this research, to deal with the conflicting control objectives of active suspension system (ASS) including ride comfort, suspension travel, and road handling, the control design is reformulated as an optimization problem and the linear quadratic control framework and model predictive control strategy have been explored.

This study shows DSTATCOM integrated charging station maintains the source current THD within the allowable limit and the DVR-FRTC system maintains the load voltage at a predefined value. Moreover, the power-sharing strategy based on IT2 FLC performs well under different generation and load scenarios.

This thesis aims at different energy management approaches to integrate renewable energy resources and plug-in electric vehicles in a microgrid environment.