Electric, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Vehicles
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Electric, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Vehicles Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Electric, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Vehicles (subject code 3170216) as prescribed for Auto · Semester 7 divides the course into 3 units, covering 30 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3170216)Unit 1 Introduction
- History of electric
- hybrid and fuel cell vehicles
- environmental and social importance of fuel cell
- electric and hybrid vehicles
- Electric Drive-trains: Basic concept of electric traction
- introduction to various electric drive-train topologies
- power flow control in electric drive-train topologies
- fuel efficiency analysis Hybrid Electric Drive-trains: Basic concept of hybrid traction
- introduction to various hybrid drive-train topologies
- power flow control in hybrid drive-train topologies
- fuel efficiency analysis
- Fuel cell Drive-trains: Basic concept of fuel cell vehicle
- introduction to fuel cell drive- train topologies
Unit 2 Energy Storage
- Introduction to Energy Storage Requirements in Hybrid and Electric Vehicles
- Battery based energy storage and its analysis
- Fuel Cell based energy storage and its analysis
- Hybridization of different energy storage devices
- Batteries: Lead-acid battery
- Nickel-based batteries
- Metal/air batteries Sodium-β batteries
- lithium batteries
- Evaluation of batteries
- Battery parameters and measurement Introduction and working of ultra-capacitor and high-speed flywheels
Unit 3 Electric Propulsion
- Introduction to electric motors
- power electronics and control strategies used in electric propulsion
- Configuration and control of DC and BLDC Motor drives
- Configuration and control of Induction Motor drives
- Configuration and control of permanent magnet motor and switched reluctance motors
- Matching the electric machine and the internal combustion engine (ICE)
- Sizing the propulsion motor and energy storage. 09 Subject Code: 3170216 w.e.f