<p>The limited availability of fossil fuels and natural gas has been the driving force behind the transition of the global automotive industry towards electric vehicles. This transition is limited by the available charging infrastructure, reliability, cost, and range, especially in remote or rural regions with limited or no grid availability. This paper presents a power dense DC - DC converter derived from a cuk topology for charging electric vehicles through photovoltaic energy in remote locations. The cuk derived architecture ensures low input and output ripple as well as enhanced gain capability. The proposed converter with a single MOSFET reduces the control complexity cost and failure rate. The responses of the converter for different perturbations are simulated in the MATLAB/Simulink environment and experimentally validated to confirm the capability of the converter.</p>