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Electric vehicles

Course title: Electric vehicles

Code: FEIT06L008

Number of credits (ECTS): 6

Weekly number of classes: 3+1+1+0

Prerequisite for enrollment of the subject: Taken course in the field of electric motors

Course goals/Competences: To understand and to adequately describe the principles and applications of electric and hybrid vehicles. Competence for adequate choose of electric vehicles.

Total available number of classes: 180

Curriculum: A brief history of electric vehicles, vehicles of today and vehicles of the future. Dynamic behavior of traction systems. Overview of electric machines and drives applied in electric vehicles. Electric and hybrid vehicles. Environmental impact of electric transport.

Literature:

Literature

Compulsory literature

No.

Author

Title

Publisher

Year

1

James Larminie

Electric Vehicle Technology Explained

John Wiley & Sons Ltd

2003

2

Ron Hodkinson and John Fenton

Lightweight Electric/Hybrid Vehicle Design

Butterworth-Heinemann Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford.

2001

3

N. Chekredzi

Electric traction

UKIM – FEIT

1999

Further literature

No.

Author

Title

Publisher

Year

1

Ali Emadi, Scott D. Sudhoff, Seshadri Srinivasaraghavan, Alireza Khaligh, Babak Fahimi, Alexis Kwasinski, Ali Davoudi, Robert S. Balog, Morgan Kiani

Transportation electrified, IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, Vol. 9 No 4

IEEE Power and Energy Society

2011