ELECTRIC VEHICLES (18EE752)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES 

Course Code 18EE752 
CIE Marks 40
Teaching Hours/Week (L:T:P) (3:0:0) 
SEE Marks 60
Credits 03 
Exam Hours 03

Course objectives:

• To Understand the fundamental laws and vehicle mechanics.
• To Understand working of Electric Vehicles and recent trends.
• Ability to analyze different power converter topology used for electric vehicle application.
• Ability to develop the electric propulsion unit and its control for application of electric vehicles.

Module-1

Vehicle Mechanics: Roadway Fundamentals, Laws of Motion, Vehicle Kinetics, Dynamics of Vehicle
Motion, Propulsion Power, Force-Velocity Characteristics, Maximum Gradability, Velocity and Acceleration, Constant FTR, Level Road, Velocity Profile, Distance Traversed, Tractive Power, Energy Required, Nonconstant FTR, General Acceleration, Propulsion System Design.

Module-2

Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles: Configuration of Electric Vehicles, Performance of Electric Vehicles, Traction motor characteristics, Tractive effort and Transmission requirement, Vehicle performance, Tractive effort in normal driving, Energy consumption Concept of Hybrid Electric Drive Trains, The architecture of Hybrid Electric Drive Trains, Series Hybrid Electric Drive Trains, Parallel hybrid electric drive trains.

Module-3

Energy storage for EV and HEV: Energy storage requirements, Battery parameters, Types of Batteries,
Modeling of Battery, Fuel Cell basic principle and operation, Types of Fuel Cells, PEMFC and its operation, Modelling of PEMFC, Supercapacitors.

Module-4

Electric Propulsion: EV consideration, DC motor drives and speed control, Induction motor drives, Permanent Magnet Motor Drives, Switch Reluctance Motor Drive for Electric Vehicles, Configuration and control of Drives.

Module-5

Design of Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles: Series Hybrid Electric Drive Train Design: Operating
patterns, control strategies, Sizing of major components, power rating of traction motor, power rating of
engine/generator, design of PPS Parallel Hybrid Electric Drive Train Design: Control strategies of parallel hybrid drive train, design of engine power capacity, design of electric motor drive capacity, transmission design, energy storage design.

Course outcomes:

At the end of the course the student will be able to:
• Explain the roadway fundamentals, laws of motion, vehicle mechanics and propulsion system design.
• Explain the working of electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles in recent trends.
• Model batteries, Fuel cells, PEMFC and super capacitors.
• Analyze DC and AC drive topologies used for electric vehicle application.
• Develop the electric propulsion unit and its control for application of electric vehicles.

Question paper pattern:

 The question paper will have ten full questions carrying equal marks.
 Each full question will be for 20 marks.
 There will be two full questions (with a maximum of four sub- questions) from each module.
 Each full question will have sub- question covering all the topics under a module.
 The students will have to answer five full questions, selecting one full question from each module.

Textbooks

1 Electric and Hybrid Vehicles: Design Fundamentals Iqbal Husain CRC Press 2003
2 Modern Electric, Hybrid Electric, and Fuel Cell Vehicles: Fundamentals, Theory, and Design M. Ehsani, Y. Gao, S.Gay and Ali Emadi CRC Press 2005

Reference Books

1 Energy Management Strategies for Electric and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles Sheldon S. Williamson Springer 2013
2 Modern Electric Vehicle Technology C.C. Chan and K.T. Chau OXFORD University 2001 Hybrid Electric Vehicles Principles And Applications With Practical Perspectives Chris Mi, M. Abul Masrur, David Wenzhong Gao  Wiley Publication 2011