Electric Vehicles
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The official GTU curriculum for Electric Vehicles (subject code 2744503) as prescribed for E(E& · Semester 4 divides the course into 5 units, covering 41 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 (2744503)Unit 1 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
- Architecture of Hybrid Electric Drive Trains
- Series Hybrid Electric Drive Trains
- Parallel hybrid electric drive trains
Unit 2 Energy storage for EV and HEV
- Energy storage requirements
- Battery parameters
- Types of Batteries
- Modelling of Battery
- Fuel Cell basic principle and operation
- Types of Fuel Cells
- PEMFC and its operation
- Modelling of PEMFC
Unit 3 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
Unit 4 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
Unit 5 Power Electronic Converter for Battery Charging
- Charging methods for battery
- Termination methods
- charging from grid
- The Z-converter
- Isolated bidirectional DC-DC converter
- Design of Z- converter for battery charging
- High-frequency transformer based