Recently, the electric vehicles which are powered by such sources as battery, solar cell, fuel-cell, and so forth attract increasing attention. However, the unit cell voltages of these power sources are so low that a number of cells should be stacked in series to drive the vehicle inverter systems, which increases the complexity of the structure of power source. In this paper, a high-efficiency high-power boost converter for electric vehicle applications, which is able to convert a relatively low source voltage into a sufficiently high regulated DC link voltage, is proposed, and the design guidelines and the experimental results are presented.