Modular tri-port converter with switched reluctance motor based hybrid electrical vehicles for fault tolerance

Energy utilisation and environmental protection concerns are the reason for the research towards hybrid electric vehicles (HEV). Major goals of electric motors in HEV are high efficiency, increased power density, high controllability, wide-speed operating range, and less maintenance under operating conditions. Hybrid electrical vehicle (HEV) is safe from CO2 emissions. Switched reluctance motors (SRMs) are easily compatible with HEV. Generator, battery bank, and SRM form the energy components in series type HEV. On comparison with other converters tri-port converter (Ramya et al., 2017, 2019) is more advantages in a wide aspect. It combines the components. Modes of operation are generator to SRM, battery bank to SRM, generator and battery bank to SRM. Flow of energy from generator to battery bank and vice versa can be possible without using an additional converter (Ramya et al., 2017, 2019). Fault tolerance in electric vehicles is possible using tri-port converter.