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Electric vehicles replace engines with motors, batteries and power electronics. You will learn EV powertrains, battery packs, charging, thermal management and how EVs differ to maintain and design.

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🎓Courses(2)

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Electric Cars: Technology (DelftX eCARS2x)

Five-week TU Delft course covering EV operating principles and regenerative braking, electric machines and power electronics, lithium-ion battery technology and management, AC/DC and smart charging infrastructure, and wireless power transfer. Roughly four hours per week.

intermediate🇬🇧
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Algorithms for Battery Management Systems Specialization

Five-course sequence on lithium-ion cell behaviour, equivalent-circuit and physics-based cell models, state-of-charge and state-of-health estimation using Kalman filters, cell balancing, and power-limit calculation. Octave/MATLAB assignments implement each algorithm against real cell data. The most-cited structured path into BMS algorithms; nothing else combines cell modelling, SOC/SOH estimation and balancing at this depth with runnable code.

advanced🇬🇧

📚Books(2)

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Electric Vehicle Technology Explained, 2nd Edition

Engineering primer on battery, hybrid and fuel-cell vehicles covering battery and supercapacitor characteristics, motor types and controllers, tractive-effort modelling, efficiency and energy consumption, chassis and aerodynamic design. MATLAB performance-simulation examples accompany each chapter.

intermediate🇬🇧
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Modern Electric, Hybrid Electric, and Fuel Cell Vehicles

Graduate textbook on EV, hybrid and fuel-cell vehicle design: road-load and traction calculations, motor drive sizing, powertrain architectures and control strategies, energy-storage sizing, transmissions, and design optimisation. The reference an EV powertrain engineer is expected to have worked through - vehicle dynamics through motor sizing through supervisory control, all with the maths shown. Third edition, 572 pages, with worked design examples throughout.

advanced🇬🇧

🌐Websites(2)

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FASTSim - Vehicle Powertrain Simulation Tool and Documentation

Open-source national-lab powertrain simulator with its user guide. Models battery-electric, hybrid, plug-in hybrid and fuel-cell drivetrains over standard drive cycles to estimate energy consumption, acceleration and component sizing. Documentation explains vehicle parameterisation, drive-cycle setup and the modelling assumptions. The one place a learner can move from equations to running numbers on a real vehicle model without a commercial licence - Argonne's Autonomie, the obvious alternative, is licensed and not free.

advanced🇬🇧
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Battery Design - Engineering Reference from Cell to Pack

Working reference maintained by an automotive battery engineer, covering cell chemistries and formats, module and pack architecture, 400V versus 800V systems, busbars and interconnects, thermal management, BMS functions and contactors, with sizing calculators and benchmark data on shipping packs. Fills the gap textbooks and MOOCs leave: pack-level mechanical and thermal integration, real benchmark numbers from shipping vehicles, and calculators. Main body of content is free; only an optional $5 glossary PDF and some benchmarking downloads are paid.

intermediate🇬🇧
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