Electric vehicle (10), including: a charging port (304) configured to accept
alternating current (AC) power; a power outlet (306) configured to provide
AC power to one or more external devices; a
direct current (DC) battery (208) which is selectively coupled to the charging port (304) via a first switch (S1) and a second switch (S2); a bidirectional
inverter (316) configured to convert
AC power to DC power and DC power to
AC power, wherein the bidirectional
inverter (316) is selectively coupled to the battery (208) via a third switch (S3), a fourth switch (S4) and a fifth switch (S5); an
electric motor (310) which is coupled to the bidirectional converter (316) and is selectively coupled to the charging port (304) via a sixth switch (S6); a DC-AC converter (314) which is selectively connected to the
electric motor (310) via a seventh switch (S7) and an eighth switch (S8) and via a ninth switch (S9), a tenth switch (S 10 ) and an eleventh switch (S 11 ) is selectively coupled to the socket (306); a DC-
DC converter (312) coupled to the DC-AC converter (314) and via a twelfth switch (S 12 ) and a thirteenth switch (S 13 ) is selectively coupled to the battery (208); the charging port (304) via a fourteenth switch (S 14 ) is selectively coupled to the bidirectional
inverter (316), the
electric motor (310) or the DC-AC converter (314); and a processor (202) configured to operate the first switch (S1), the second switch (S2), the third switch (S3), the fourth switch (S4), the fifth switch (S5), the sixth switch (S6), the seventh switch (S7), the eighth switch (S e ), the ninth switch (S9), the tenth switch (S 10 ), of the eleventh switch (S 11 ), of the twelfth switch (S 12 ), of the thirteenth switch (S 13 ) and the fourteenth (p 14 ) control the switch based on an operating mode of the
electric vehicle (10).