Discharge systems for electric vehicles and electric vehicles having discharge systems. In one implementation, a discharge system for an electric vehicle includes a step-down power converter configured to step down an input voltage to an output voltage; di...

A circuit 201 that provides a method and apparatus to actively balance capacitor leakage current from series stacked capacitors 207, 209 and disconnects itself when stacked capacitors are configured for doubler operation. In one embodiment, the active circ...