This book introduces the most state-of-the-art wireless power transfer technologies for electric vehicles from the fundamental theories to practical designs and applications, especially on the circuit analysis methods, resonant compensation networks, magnetic couplers, and related power electronics converters. Moreover, some other necessary design considerations, such as communication systems, detection of foreign and living objects, EMI issues, and battery charging strategies, are also introduced to provide sufficient insights into the industrial applications. Finally, some future points are mentioned in brief.

Different from other works, all the WPT technologies in this book are applied in real EV applications, whose effectiveness and reliability have been already tested and verified. From this book, readers who are interested in the area of wireless power transfer can have a broad view of modern WPT technologies.  Readers who have no experience in theWPT area can learn the basic concept, analysis methods, and design principles of the WPT system for EV charging. Even for the readers who are occupied in this area, this book also provides rich knowledge on engineering applications and future trends of EV wireless charging.

Dr. Xi Zhang received his Bachelor, Master, and Ph.D. degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2002, 2004, and 2007, respectively. He joined the University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA, as a postdoctor in 2007 and a research scientist in 2009. He is currently a full professor and a doctoral supervisor at the Institute of Intelligent Vehicles of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. His research interests include wireless power transfer technologies, EV electric drive systems, battery management systems, etc. He has published three books and around 100 research papers. He was granted over 20 patents of invention. Besides, he was sponsored by Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program and won Chinese Industry-University-Institute Cooperation Promotion Award (Individual) in 2016. He is now an IEEE senior member and New Energy Power Conversion Technology Committee member of China Power Supply Society. He was the chair, the program committee chair, or the section chair forseveral international academic conferences.

Dr. Chong Zhu received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2016. He was a postdoctoral researcher with San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA from 2017 to 2019. He is currently an assistant professor in in the School of Automobile Engineering in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests include battery management system and wireless power transfer for electric vehicles.

 Dr. Haitao Song received his B.Eng and Msc majoring in Electrical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2008 and 2013 respectively, and received his Ph.D. degree in Electronic Information Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2021. He is currently the vice dean of Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and the executive president of Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Research Institute Co., Ltd. His current research interests include artificial intelligence, industrial internet, integrated energy systems, and so on.