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This paper gives an overview of current wireless charging technologies on electric vehicles (EVs) charging. In general, the near-field technologies are preferred over far-field ones. Inductive power transfer and strongly coupled magnetic resonance technologies are chosen for detailed review. Furthermore, special issues related to EV applications are also discussed, namely efficient power supply, misalignment tolerance, multiple pickup control, simultaneous power and data transmission and shielding methods.

Given the increasing demand to increase the switching frequency and efficiency of switched-mode power converters, pulse-width-modulated (PWM) soft-switching techniques have been proposed to combine the desirable features of PWM and resonant-mode converters. This paper presents the evolution of several soft-switching techniques, operating principles, performance characteristics, experimental results, merits and limitations are also discussed. Experimental results of three classes of zero-voltage-switched converters and one class of zerocurrent-switched converter are prototyped and presented.