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  • REF:EV-1
  • PROGRAM:Introduction to Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
  • Price: Fast Track: $595 Workshop: $1149 Module: $2495
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Program Overview

Introduction to electric and hybrid electric vehicle (xEV) engineering. Fundamentals of electric power trains with electric motors and batteries and their application in hybrid and electric vehicles utilizing a variety of vehicle architectures.

Program Types

Objectives

  1. Describe electric, hybrid, and fuel cell vehicles and their advantages and disadvantages.
  2. Explain basic operational principles of batteries and electric motors and describe their power, energy, and efficiency performance.
  3. Describe mild and strong hybrid electric vehicles with series, parallel, and series-parallel configurations.
  4. Describe plug-in HEVs with all electric range and hydrogen fuel cell HEVs as an alternative zero-emission vehicle
  5. Outline the commercial status and outlook for various types of electric and hybrid vehicles globally.

Schedule

Start Date End Date Days Times
10/8/24 10/10/24 T W R 7:00a - 9:40a
10/12/24 10/12/24 Saturday 9:00a - 5:00p
11/16/24 11/16/24 Saturday 9:00a - 5:00p

Objectives

  1. Describe electric, hybrid, and fuel cell vehicles and their advantages and disadvantages.
  2. Describe the components of traction force, power, and energy and explain efficiency improvements from regenerative braking.
  3. Describe basic components and operational principles for electric motors including AC induction motors and synchronous PM motors.
  4. Explain operational principles of lithium-ion battery cells and list key components and materials.
  5. Describe how battery cells are connected in series-parallel arrays into battery packs with thermal management and BMS controls.
  6. Draw an EV block diagram showing power flow between key components using battery energy to provide torque to wheels.
  7. Describe mild and strong hybrid electric vehicles with series, parallel, and series-parallel configurations.
  8. Explain HEV energy efficiency features: stop-start, regenerative braking, optimization of ICE efficiency, and electric launch.
  9. Describe plug-in HEVs with limited all-electric range to operate in zero-emission vehicle mode.
  10. Describe fuel cell HEVs which operate as ZEV vehicles using hydrogen fuel and explain their advantages and disadvantages.
  11. Outline the commercial status and outlook for various types of electric and hybrid vehicles globally.

Schedule

Start Date End Date Days Times
10/8/24 10/17/24 T W R 7:00a - 9:40a
10/8/24 10/17/24 T W R 3:00p - 5:40p
11/9/24 11/18/24 T W R 7:00p - 9:40p

Objectives

  1. Describe electric, hybrid, and fuel cell vehicles and explain and compare their advantages and disadvantages.
  2. Model EV and HEV traction power and energy demand from vehicle mechanical parameters including effects of regenerative braking.
  3. Explain operating principles of ACIM and PMSM electric motors and characterize the torque, power, and efficiency performance.
  4. Explain operational principles of commercial and advanced lithium-ion battery cells and list key components and materials.
  5. Estimate the power and efficiency of traction battery packs and explain requirements for thermal management and BMS controls.
  6. Draw HEV block diagrams for series, parallel, and series-parallel configurations and compare to EVs and ICE vehicles.
  7. Explain HEV energy efficiency features: stop-start, regenerative braking, optimization of ICE efficiency, and electric launch.
  8. Utilize power-speed-efficiency diagrams for ICE engines and electric motors to explain optimization of ICE engines in HEVs.
  9. Explain the efficiency improvement potential for PHEV with improved MPG in HEV mode and very high MPGE in EV mode.
  10. Describe the key components of hydrogen fuel cell HEVS and explain the principles of operation and performance status.
  11. Describe the infrastructure issues associated with hydrogen fuel for fuel cell HEVs and fast charge stations for PEVs.
  12. Discuss vehicle electrification road maps globally and key technology, economic, and political issues.

Schedule

Start Date End Date Days Times
10/8/24 11/7/24 T W R 7:00a - 9:40a

Program Details

  • REF:EV-2
  • PROGRAM:Batteries for Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
  • Price: Fast Track: $595 Workshop: $1149 Module: $2495
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Program Overview

Fundamental and practical aspects of EV and HEV traction batteries at cell, module, and pack levels. Descriptive overview of battery technologies with focus on lithium-ion batteries. Integration of battery packs for EV and HEV applications to meet performance, life, safety, and cost requirements.

Program Types

Objectives

  1. Describe engineering requirements for EV and HEV traction batteries.
  2. Describe operating principles based on fundamental battery electrochemistry to provide power and energy.
  3. Describe battery cell components, materials, and design.
  4. Describe series-parallel arrangement of cells in battery pack electrical design to provide power and energy to the electric drive train.
  5. Describe battery pack full system design with thermal management and BMS electronics.
  6. Describe technology status of EV and HEV battery packs in terms of power, energy, life, and safety.

Schedule

Start Date End Date Days Times
10/19/24 10/19/24 Saturday 9:00a - 5:00p
11/12/24 11/4/24 T W R 7:00a - 9:40a
11/23/24 11/23/24 Saturday 9:00a - 5:00p

Objectives

  1. Describe engineering requirements for EV and HEV traction batteries in terms of power and energy densities, life, safety, and cost.
  2. Describe operating principles based on fundamental battery electrochemistry to provide power and energy with a focus on lithium-ion batteries.
  3. Describe battery cell components, materials, and design and their effect of performance.
  4. Describe the battery energy performance as derived from discharge curves.
  5. Descriibe the battery power performance as derived from pulse discharge tests.
  6. Describe battery cycle life and its characterization from cycle life and calendar life tests.
  7. Describe lithium-ion battery safety issues and abuse testing.
  8. Describe series-parallel arrangement of cells in battery pack electrical design to provide power and energy within electrical limits of the power train.
  9. Describe thermal management systems for EV and HEV applications.
  10. Describe BMS electronic controls to insure safe operation of battery packs.
  11. Discuss the current commercial status of EV and HEV lithium-ion battery technology and expectations for technology improvement.

Schedule

Start Date End Date Days Times
11/5/24 11/14/24 T W R 3:00p - 5:40p
11/12/24 11/21/24 T W R 7:00a - 9:40a
12/3/24 12/12/24 T W R 7:00p - 9:40p

Objectives

  1. Describe engineering requirements for EV and HEV traction batteries in terms of power and energy densities, energy efficiency, charge time, temperature depedence, cycle life, calendar life, safety, and cost.
  2. Describe operational principles of battery energy storage with theoretical and practical energy density of past, present, future battery technologies.
  3. Describe battery cell components, materials, and design and their effect of performance.
  4. Describe the manufacture of batteries together with the supply chain, recycling, and battery cost.
  5. Estimate battery energy density and energy efficiency from discharge and charge curves.
  6. Estimate battery power performance from HPPC pulse power tests.
  7. Describe battery cycle life and its characterization from cycle life and calendar life tests.
  8. Discuss battery failure mechanisms and effect of operating conditions.
  9. Describe lithium-ions battery safety issues and abuse testing.
  10. Describe series-parallel arrangement of cells in battery pack electrical design to provide power and energy within electrical limits of the power train.
  11. Estimate power capability of battery packs using equivalent circuit modeling.
  12. Describe thermal management systems for EV and HEV applications inclduing cell balancing circuits.
  13. Discuss the current commercial status of EV and HEV lithium-ion battery technology and expectations for technology improvement for energy density, cost, and fast charge performance.

Schedule

Start Date End Date Days Times
11/12/24 12/19/24 T W R 7:00a - 9:40a

Program Details

  • REF:EV-3
  • PROGRAM:Electric and Hybrid Drive Systems
  • Price: Fast Track: $595 Workshop: $1149 Module: $2495
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Program Overview

Introduction to three-phase electric drive systems and their application to electric vehicles, plug-in EV, and hybrid EV. Review of essential electrical, mechanical, electromechanical, and control background. Understanding the advantages of AC power over DC, Clarke and Park transform. Power electronics 3-phase inverters, pulse width modulation, and space vector modulation schemes. Trapezoidal versus sinusoidal distributed 3-phase stator windings. AC induction motor, variable reluctance motor, permanent magnet synchronous motor, brushless DC motor. Open-loop drives and closed-loop drives for speed and torque control. Profiles of load torque, speed, current, power, and efficiency of motor drives, with dynamometer tests. Power losses and regenerative braking. Hybrid drive systems with a power split device and ICE. Model-based representations of the drives, computer simulation, and visualization of principles using Matlab.

Program Types

Objectives

  1. Describe requirements for electric drives for electric and hybrid vehicles.
  2. Describe principles of operation of AC electric machines including BLDC, ACIM, PMSM, and reluctance machines.
  3. Describe basics of power electronic semiconductor switching devices and principles of operation of DC-DC converters, inverters, rectifiers, and battery chargers.
  4. Describe basics of contorl systems, including open-loop and clorsed loop behavior, field oriented control, and space vector modulation.
  5. Model an electric drive system

Schedule

Start Date End Date Days Times
10/26/24 10/26/24 Saturday 9:00a - 5:00p
12/7/24 12/7/24 Saturday 9:00a - 5:00p
1/7/25 1/9/25 T W R 7:00a - 9:40a
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