MOOC - Highly Automated Drive Engineer
Electric Vehicles
The fourth training unit focuses on pure battery electric vehicles (BEVs). After an introduction with a short glance at the history of electric vehicles, the focus lies on the powertrain possibilities and integration of the powertrain components in the vehicle body. Some benchmark vehicles were selected and presented.
Battery Body Integration:
The element describes the traction inverter functionality, the used electronic power elements and their current development status. It gives insight into current trends regarding cooling and integration of inverters.
ADCEUR.U4.E3.PC1
The student understands the major possibilities for the integration of the battery system in a pure electric vehicle.
ADCEUR.U4.E3.PC2
The student is able to explain the benefits, disadvantages and the safety risk of the integration possibilities and the consequences.
ADCEUR.U4.E3.PC3
The student knows about the safety issues connected with battery installation and about the required actions to prove and maintain the battery integrity in case of a crash.
ADCEUR.U4.E3.PC4
The student knows about the different design philosophies of OEMs in the body integration and their judge the risk evaluation.
ADCEUR.U4.E3.PC5
The student is able to select the most favorable installation location for the battery system under given boundary conditions from the vehicle body.