
Explore the fundamentals of electric vehicles, from history and architecture to motors, batteries, controllers, charging, and controls, with interactive exercises and calculations suitable for beginners and industry professionals.
Explore the global electric vehicle market growth, charging technologies like regenerative braking, and regional trends—Norway's emissions goal, China's production, and India's mobility targets.
Compare battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids, from grid charging to regenerative braking, and learn how range and charging times affect daily travel and efficiency.
Discover plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and how they blend petrol engines with rechargeable batteries, enabling all-electric range, regenerative braking, and key components like the battery and charge board.
Explain how mild hybrid electric vehicles use a small electric motor to assist the gasoline engine, shut off during coasting, capture energy via regenerative braking, and boost efficiency by 10–15%.
Explore range extended electric vehicles (reev) using an on-board engine to charge the battery and power an electric motor in series or other hybrid layouts.
Explore how fuel cell electric vehicles power an electric motor with hydrogen from a tank, using a fuel cell stack and battery for efficiency, charging, and braking energy recovery.
Learn how hybrid electric vehicles use series and parallel modes, where the engine charges the battery or powers the wheels with electric motors. Explore regenerative braking and all-electric mode advantages.
Explore how a three-phase squirrel-cage induction motor converts electrical energy from the stator into mechanical power in the rotor, via a rotating magnetic field and slip.
Size branch circuit conductors and select overcurrent protection for motors under the 2015 Canadian Electrical Code, using FMLA, 125 percent, and continuous/intermittent duty tables 27 and 29.
Explore the role and types of batteries in electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, including lithium ion, nickel metal hydride, lead acid, and ultra capacitors, and how packaging affects power efficiency.
Explore how we assemble battery cells from electrodes, separators, and electrolytes, then laminate components, inject electrolyte, and assemble modules and packs for electric vehicles.
Discover the battery management system for lithium-ion packs, monitoring cell voltage and temperature in real time, communicating with devices, and assessing health to protect electric vehicle safety and pack life.
Explore how a battery management system for electric vehicles ensures safe, efficient power by controlling discharge and charge, balancing cells, managing temperature, and providing galvanic isolation and data logging.
What is Electric Vehicle?
An electric vehicle (EV), also referred to as an electric drive vehicle, is a vehicle that uses one or more electric motors for propulsion. Depending on the type of vehicle, the motion may be provided by wheels or propellers driven by rotary motors, or in the case of tracked vehicles, by linear motors. Electric vehicles can include electric cars, electric trains, electric trucks, electric lorries, electric airplanes, electric boats, electric motorcycles and scooters, and electric spacecraft.
About this Electric Vehicle course:
This course will be a first-level course on electric vehicles. Students will be able to understand the operation of the battery-driven electric vehicles. The course will start with the introduction section which will enable the students to understand the focus areas that come under the umbrella of electric vehicles. Then the course will start covering this focus area one by one such as vehicle dynamics, Motors, Power Electronics, Batteries, Charging, etc. The most important part of this course will be that each topic will be analyzed and demonstrated through Matlab Simulink so that the grip of the subject will be strong and the knowledge acquired will be useable in real-time applications. We believe that good information available on the internet should be shared with the people as well. So many supporting documents in the form of pdf and couple of videos are shared during the course.
Items Included in this course:
The course has about 3 hours of video lecture along with approx 11-12 hours of textual documents which include text classes and pdfs. So, overall the length of this Electric Vehicle course is around 14-15 hours.
Why take this course?
Taking this course will give you detailed knowledge of the Electric Vehicle technology and industry. You can use the knowledge for this course on your projects and research. The course content keeps on updating based upon the recent development in the industry.