Electric vehicles are increasingly adopted in the transportation sector of developed countries. This is due to the environmental and economic advantages they offer as compared to internal combustion engine vehicles. Understanding the architecture of their battery chargers, their characteristics, and the differences between them are essentially important for researchers and engineers pursuing future development in the field. Purpose: a comprehensive review of the charging station facility and related technologies is widely demanded to facilitate the acquisition of this knowledge. Nevertheless, the current review articles are mostly oriented toward a specific aspect of the topic without providing a holistic overview of the arguments, issues, and technologies involved in the electric vehicle charging station design. Furthermore, some research articles provided only a limited simulation-based comparison between special types of these chargers which undermines the general understanding of the properties of basic converters and associated operational behaviors. Methods: in this article, an extensive review of electric vehicle’s fast charging stations and their related technologies is presented. The review is inclusively extended to combine the topologies of these chargers along with the common design issues and charging technologies utilized in the literature. Additionally, future trending topics are also included to shed light on the forthcoming direction of research in this field and possible opportunities. More crucially, this article provided a comprehensive comparison between some of the most common electric vehicle chargers based on the operational properties of their integrated power converters. Results: the comparison between the constructed models of electric vehicle chargers is conducted in MatLab / Simulink environment. Battery voltage, battery current, battery state-of-charge, and switching losses of the DC/DC converter were analyzed for the tested chargers, and results were evaluated. Based on the evaluation, a recommendation has been made for the utilization of specific architecture in developing an electric vehicle charging station that adheres to Russian and global standers.