Electric Vehicle Development Course - Formula Student Teams

Learn to plan timelines for Formula Student projects by defining goals, breaking work into milestones, managing procurement, and tracking risks to align design, manufacturing, and testing with competition goals.

Explore vendor development and procurement fundamentals, vendor management, and packaging and shipping in Formula Student, as Tribhuvan Singh shares industry insights and experiences.

Develop a procurement plan for formula student by balancing cost, lead times, and design goals, using vendor comparisons, centralized procurement, and compliant university sourcing for shipping and packaging.

Meet Parth Shah, Tata Motors R&D manager and BMW's design engineer, with a B.Tech in automobile engineering from Industry University and an M.Tech in renewable energy engineering.

Explore the tractive system components and safety enclosures for electric vehicles, including isolation, galvanic isolation, and grounding. Learn motor types, regenerative braking, power limits, and overcurrent protection requirements.

Explore electrical components for both cvs and evs, focusing on selection, data sheets, requirements, and safety considerations. Learn from Harit Trivedi about basics of traction systems and practical rule-book notes.

Learn safe design of low- and high-voltage systems for electric race vehicles, emphasizing isolation, FMEA, robust shutdown and inertia circuits, proper wiring, sensors, and logic-based safety protection.

This lecture covers safety design for the traction system, including 600V and 80 kW limits, motor-inverter-battery sizing, galvanic isolation, enclosures, moisture resistance, interlocks, wiring, data logger setup, and TSL indicators.

Patrick introduces the Ev5 session and essential rules for an electric vehicle team, sharing his Racing Electric background and Mahindra role, and notes not to copy online designs.

Learn to calculate cell energy with FB, size segment energy under 120 V and six MJ, and design fire retardant, insulated energy storage with AMS/BMS, precharge, and fault latching.

Explore the shutdown circuit and systems for Formula Student EVs, detailing BSPD, IMD, AMS, inertia switch, cockpit kill switches, interlocks, master switch, chargers, and hand cart safety and high-voltage isolation.

Learn how to design an electric vehicle accumulator, selecting cell chemistry and form factors, sizing series/parallel configurations, implementing the accumulator management system and safety, pre-charge, and high voltage considerations.

Explore powertrain design essentials, including motor and controller selection, and the basic rules of drivetrain design, guided by Venkatesh Sathish’s Formula Bharat EV experience.

Explore powertrain configurations for Formula Student EVs, then select motors and controllers through a structured design flow, modeling, and simulation to balance performance, energy, and reliability.

Learn to distinguish low voltage and high voltage systems in formula student vehicles, focusing on isolation, chassis grounding, and the orange wire rule.

Ashhar Shaikh is an entrepreneur and ev enthusiast who develops retrofitting ev kits, mentors start-ups, and authors ev engineering fundamentals, sharing insights on future e-mobility ecosystem development.

learn how to complete the ESF template for electrical systems, covering shutdown circuits, high-voltage components, energy meter connections, CAD renders, datasheets, and schematics to prove rule compliance.

Explore the SES (E Part) requirements for electric vehicle development, including the latest CES template, firewall and accumulator container rules, and pouch-type cell mounting with CAD proofs and hand calculations.

Apply design for X principles to design for manufacturing, assembly, reliability, testing, maintenance, and cost in accumulator containers, and follow a safe zone prototyping workflow.

Explore common team structures—hierarchical, functional, matrix, circular, and flat—and learn how to build a successful formula student team with a clear mission, smart goals, defined roles, and effective communication.

Learn recruitment, retention, and knowledge transfer for formula student teams. Discover practical strategies for onboarding, mentoring, and documenting alumni insights.