Abstract The large penetration of electric vehicles (EV) charging stations in existing utility grid is bringing up many power-quality problems which highly affect the load performances at the large and small consumer ends. This trend seems to grow at more pronounced rate as nowadays there is a shift from using internal combustion (IC) engine based vehicles to EV due to their superiorities. EV chargers convert the ac power to dc power for charging of EV batteries. During this conversion of power by power electronics high frequency switching converters, harmonics are injected into the grid which degrades the power-quality of line current in the grid. Such injection of harmonics causes electrical and thermal overloading of distribution transformers thus affecting their life expectancy. Other problems include drawing of excess current from the grid, unbalancing between demand and supply in utility grid, voltage deviation in the grid, etc. Thus, it is required to maintain the IEEE-519 power quality standards during charging of EV. This paper presents a survey of the fast charging stations for EV and their impacts on the exiting utility grid along with the solution to overcome these issues.