Batteries in Electric Vehicles-Introduction and Fundamentals

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction to EV Scenario Across the Globe

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: History of Automobile Industry

Lecture 3: Components of Electric Vehicle

Lecture 4: Major OEM's in Electric Vehicle across the Globe

Lecture 5: Major OEM's in Electric Vehicle – India

Chapter 2: Introduction to Batteries

Lecture 1: Types of Batteries

Lecture 2: Application of Lead Acid Batteries

Lecture 3: Applications of Li-Ion batteries

Lecture 4: Cost comparision of Li-ion batteries over the years

Lecture 5: Battery Architecture

Lecture 6: First Battery

Lecture 7: How does Batteries Work

Lecture 8: Introduction to Cell Architecture

Lecture 9: Battery Pack Architecture

Lecture 10: Battery Pack Anatomy

Chapter 3: Cell Chemistries

Lecture 1: Cell Chemistries

Lecture 2: Lithium Cobalt Oxide

Lecture 3: Lithium Manganese Oxide

Lecture 4: Lithium Nickel Manganese Cobalt Oxide

Lecture 5: Lithium Nickel Cobalt Aluminum Oxide

Lecture 6: Lithium Iron Phosphate

Lecture 7: Lithium Polymer

Lecture 8: Size and Shapes of Cells

Lecture 9: Various Sizes of Cylindrical cells

Chapter 4: Battery Charging

Lecture 1: Introduction to Battery Charging

Lecture 2: Battery Charging Curve

Lecture 3: Li-ion Battery Charging guidelines

Lecture 4: Life Cycle of Battery at various Temperatures

Lecture 5: Depth Of Discharge

Lecture 6: Charging Standards

Lecture 7: Home Charging

Lecture 8: Pros of Home Charging

Lecture 9: Workplace Charging

Lecture 10: Pros of Workplace charging

Chapter 5: CHAdeMO

Lecture 1: Introduction to CHAdeMO

Lecture 2: CHAdeMO protocol

Lecture 3: CHAdeMO Battery protection

Lecture 4: CHAdeMO Fail safe of Charging control

Lecture 5: CHAdeMO Interlock of connector

Chapter 6: Battery Management System

Lecture 1: Introduction to Battery Management System (BMS)

Lecture 2: Key Functions of BMS

Lecture 3: Why do we require BMS?

Lecture 4: BMS Protection

Lecture 5: Various Topologies in BMS

Lecture 6: Sample Block Diagram of BMS

Lecture 7: Various Components of BMS

Lecture 8: DC Pre Charge Circuit

Chapter 7: Cell balancing

Lecture 1: Cell balancing

Lecture 2: Causes of Cell Unbalancing

Lecture 3: Passive Cell Balancing

Lecture 4: Various Types of Cell Balancing

Lecture 5: Cell balancing Algorithm

Lecture 6: Balance current Requirement

Chapter 8: Connectors

Lecture 1: Wire Harness and Connectors

Lecture 2: EV Connectors

Lecture 3: Battery Connectors

Chapter 9: Thermal Management in Battery Pack

Lecture 1: Thermal Management in Battery Pack

Lecture 2: Why there is a need of Thermal Management System?

Lecture 3: Temperature Impacts

Lecture 4: Battery Thermal Management Requirements

Lecture 5: Thermal Control using Air

Lecture 6: Thermal Control using Liquid

Lecture 7: Cooling using Phase Change Material

Lecture 8: Thermo-Electric Cooling

Chapter 10: Calculation – How to calculation battery pack for a EV Application

Lecture 1: Calculation