B.E. (Automobile Engineering) Hybrid and Electric Vehicles Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
The University has moved this degree onto NEP 2020 one year at a time. The first and second years are NEP 2020 syllabi; the third and fourth years are still examined on the REV-2019 'C' Scheme, which is what the University sets for them this year.
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Syllabus for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles
Module 1: Introduction
- Environmental Impact
- Air pollution
- Global Warming
- Petroleum Resources
- Need for different transportation systems
- History of Electric Vehicles, Hybrid Vehicles and Fuel Cell Vehicles
- Well to Wheel Analysis
- Initiatives by Government of India
- Current scenario in EV/HEV
- Need for Softwares related to EV modeling and testing
Module 2: Electric Vehicles
- Drivetrain Configurations
- Traction Motor characteristics
- Tractive effort
- Transmission requirement and
- Vehicle Performance (Acceleration and Range) EV Parameters
- Weight
- Size
- Force
- Energy Consumed
- Power
Module 3: Hybrid Electric Vehicles
- Configurations
- Series
- Parallel
- Series-Parallel
- Complex
- Power flow control for above configurations Couplings
- Torque Coupling
- Speed coupling
- Combined Torque and speed coupling Design of Series and Parallel Hybrid drivetrain
- Control strategies for series drivetrain
- Control strategies for parallel hybrid drivetrain
- Sizing of drivetrain parameters
Module 4: Energy storage devices and Electric Motors
- Batteries for EV‘s and HEV‘s-Lead Acid, Nickel Based and Lithium Ion Battery Chemistries
- Ultra capacitors
- Flywheels
- Hybridization of Energy storage devices Concepts of Energy and Power
- Specific Energy
- Specific power
- State of Charge, Depth of Discharge
- Energy Efficiency
- Electrochemical reactions
- Voltages Motors for Electric Vehicles
- DC Motors
- Induction Motors
- Switched Reluctance Motors(SRM) Regeneration
- Energy consumption in braking
- Brake systems for EV‘s and HEV‘s
Module 5: Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles
- Fundamentals
- Operating principle
- Electrode potential
- Current voltage curve Fuel Cell Technologies
- PEMFC
- AFC
- PAFC
- MCFC
- SOFC
- DMFC
- Hydrogen storage and Production
- Fuel cell hybrid electric drive train-Configuration, control strategy
Module 6: Battery Management System and Chargers for EV’s
- Need of Battery management systems(BMS) in Electric Vehicles
- Basics of Electric Vehicles Chargers-AC and DC Chargers
- Battery Swapping Technologies
Text Books
- 1 Robin Hardy, Iqbal. Hussein, Electric and Hybrid Vehicles, CRC Press,ISBN-0-8493-1466-6.
- 2 J. Larminie and J. Lowry, Electric Vehicle Technology Explained, Wiley, 2003
- 3 C. MI, M. Abul and D. W. Gao, Hybrid Electrical Vehicle Principles and Application with Practical Perspectives, Wiley 2011.
- 1 Sandeep Dhameja,‖Electric Vehicle Battery Systems‖,Newnes,Massachusetts,2002
- 2 C.C.Chan and K.T.Chau,‖Modern Electric Vehicle Technology‖, Oxford University Press,2001
- 3 I. Hussein, Electric and Hybrid Vehicles: Design Fundamentals, CRC Press, 2003 Links for NPTEL/Swayam Courses: 1.https://nptel.ac.in/courses/108/103/108103009/ 55
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.E. (Automobile Engineering) under REV-2019 'C' Scheme, in force from the academic year 2022-23. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.
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