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MECA0527: Electric, Hybrid, and Fuel Cell Vehicles


Pedagogical Commitment:

Organization

  • INFORMATION: first lecture
  • AGENDA Lectures in fall semester S1 of academic year 2021-2022

Exam

Lecture Notes

  1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION: Organization, table of content (2021)
  2. ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES OF VEHICLE INDUSTRY (2021)
  3. INTRODUCTION AND HISTORY OF EV AND HEV: A short introduction to eletric and hybrid vehicles(2021)
  4. MOTOR SELECTION: Part 1: Ideal propulsion system. Combustion systems (2021)
  5. MOTOR SELECTION: Part 2: Alternative systems; Electric propulsion systems. Comparison. (2021)
  6. POWERTRAIN ARCHITECTURES AND TRANSMISSION TECHNOLOGIES (2021)
  7. ENGINE AND MOTOR MODELLING: Engine and e-motor performance curves (2021)
  8. ELECTRIC TRACTION MACHINES: eletric machines technology and power electronics (2021)
  9. PERFORMANCE 1: Longitudinal equilibrium. Tractive force and power. Road loads. (2021)
  10. PERFORMANCE 2: Performance criteria (2021)
  11. PERFORMANCE 3: Energy Consumptions and emissions (2021)
  12. PERFORMANCE OF EV: Performance and sizing of electric vehicles(2021)
  13. ENERGY AND POWER STORAGE SYSTEMS : Part 1 batteries
  14. ENERGY AND POWER STORAGE SYSTEMS: Part 2: supercaps, flywheels
  15. HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLES: An introduction to hybridization concepts, definition, categories, working principles and major components. Case studies.
  16. DESIGN OF SERIES HEV: Design and control of series HEV
  17. DESIGN OF PARALLEL HEV: Design and control of parallel HEV
  18. DESIGN OF PLUG-IN HYBRID VEHICLES: Design and control of plug-in HEV
  19. FUEL CELL POWERED VEHICLES - Part I: Introduction to fuel cell technologies. Characteristics. Hydrogen storages.
  20. FUEL CELL POWERED VEHICLES - Part II: Applications of Fuel cells. Case studies
  21. DESIGN OF FUEL CELL HEV: Design and control of Fuel Cell eletric vehicle

 

Podcasts & recodings (2020)

Syllabus

 

Project

  • Assignment 1 (HW1) (20/10/2021)
  • Assignment 2 (HW2) (18/11/2021) NEW
  • e-motor: Matlab code of the efficiency map of the Nissan LEAF (Mk 2012)

Lab: Chassis Dynamometer

Additional Material