Welcome to Modern Electric, Hybrid Electric, and Fuel Cell Vehicles: Architecture, Powertrain & Energy Management—a comprehensive course designed to help you understand the technologies transforming the automotive industry. The transportation sector is rapidly moving toward electrification, higher efficiency, reduced emissions, and sustainable energy systems. This course provides a clear engineering foundation for understanding how Electric Vehicles (EVs), Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs), and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (FCEVs) work and how their major systems interact.
Throughout the course, you will explore the architecture and power flow of modern electrified vehicles, beginning with the fundamentals of electric propulsion and gradually moving toward advanced vehicle technologies.
You will learn about:
- Electric Vehicle architecture and powertrain configurations
- Electric traction motors and their operating principles
- Battery technologies and energy storage systems
- Power electronic converters used in EV powertrains
- EV charging systems and charging technologies
- Regenerative braking and energy recovery
- Vehicle energy management and power flow
- Hybrid Electric Vehicle architectures
- Series, parallel, and combined hybrid powertrains
