- What is electricity.
- Advantages, hazards involved.
- Voltage, current, resistance.
- Earthing and earth fault protection devices.
- Short circuit and short circuit protection devices.
- Key safety points while working with high voltage in electric vehicles.
- Differences between EVs and ICE vehicles.
- Hybrid vehicles and their types- series, parallel, series-parallel, mild etc.
- Basic flow of a pure EV.
- Lead acid vs Lithium-ion batteries- salient features and differences between them.
- Cell geometries.
- Battery safety, tests performed on batteries
- Basic working principle of motors.
- Basics of brushed DC motors.
- ac motors- PMSM and BLDC motors.
- Hall-effect sensors.
- Working of motor controllers.
- Overview of EV electrical powertrain- PDU, OBC, DC-DC converter etc.
- Energy flow during charging and discharging.
- Charging standards followed around the world.
- Overview of mechanical power transmission in EV vs ICE.
