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Abstract : The tremendous increase in green house gases and fossil fuel depletion rates led to electric vehicles (EV) as alternate options. The impacts of power system network of electric vehicles for charging power converter configurations, control strategies, charging standards are studied in detail by researchers. Major issues faced with EV charging station are large amounts of current and voltage distortions. This paper presents a case study of EV charging station in a scaled down laboratory model. Studies reveal the necessity of installing suitable compensators at EV charging stations, and shunt active filters with suitable controller are implemented in the system. The improvement in system performance with the installation of harmonic compensator is discussed in this paper.