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Abstract : Energy extraction from renewable sources and its utilization in Electric Vehicles (EVs) have paved the way for greener transportation options. Battery charging is the present-day challenge in EVs. Constant Current (CC) and Constant Voltage (CV) charging methods have many advantages over other EV battery charging techniques. A fuel cell, being one of the ways of producing DC energy, can be directly used to charge batteries in EVs. With the fuel cell being the DC source, the on-board fast charging can be easily achieved by various power converters, but the Single-Ended Primary Inductor Converter (SEPIC) would serve most efficiently for the aforementioned scenario. In CC method, battery may overcharged if battery reaches full charge mode as current is constant and similarly in CV method in initial stages current drawn by battery is high which may cause temperature to rise to undesired values. To overcome these disadvantages the CC-CV charging can be switched according to the requirements using automated Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC). The CC-CV charging of the EV battery using SEPIC with the help of a fuel cell through FLC has been proposed and simulated using MATLAB/Simulink software, and the results have been discussed.