BAU071 Hybrid Vehicle Propulsion Syllabus — AKTU 2025-26

Syllabus

5 units

Unit1

Introduction to Hybrid Electric Vehicles:
History of hybrid and electric vehicles, social and environmental importance of hybrid and electric vehicles, impact of modern drive-trains on energy supplies. Conventional Vehicles:
Basics of vehicle performance, vehicle power source characterization, transmission characteristics, and mathematical models to describe vehicle performance.

Unit2

Hybrid Electric Drive-trains:
Basic concept of hybrid traction, introduction to various hybrid drive-train topologies, power flow control in hybrid drive-train topologies, fuel efficiency analysis. Electric Drive-trains:
Basic concept of electric traction, introduction to various electric drive-train topologies, power flow control in electric drive-train topologies, fuel efficiency analysis.

Unit3

Electric Propulsion unit:
Introduction to electric components used in hybrid and electric vehicles, Configuration and control of DC Motor drives, Configuration and control of Induction Motor drives, configuration and control of Permanent Magnet Motor drives, Configuration and control of Switch Reluctance Motor drives, drive system efficiency.

Unit4

Energy Storage:
Introduction to Energy Storage Requirements in Hybrid and Electric Vehicles, Battery based energy storage and its analysis, Fuel Cell based energy storage and its analysis, Super Capacitor based energy storage and its analysis, Flywheel based energy storage and its analysis, Hybridization of different energy storage devices. Sizing the drive system:
Matching the electric machine and the internal combustion engine (ICE), Sizing the propulsion motor, sizing the power electronics, selecting the energy storage technology, Communications, supporting subsystems

Unit5

Energy Management Strategies:
Introduction to energy management strategies used in hybrid and electric vehicles, classification of different energy management strategies, comparison of different energy management strategies, implementation issues of energy management strategies.

Course Outcomes (COs)5 outcomes

After completion of the course student will be able to:

CO1Understand the basics of the hybrid electric vehicles and it’s types.K2
CO2Understand the types of drive trains used in hybrid vehiclesK2
CO3Understand the propulsion units used in Hybrid Vehicles and their efficiency.K2
CO4Understand the requirements and devices of energy storage used in hybrid vehicles.K3
CO5Understand the concept of downsizing of IC engines in case of hybrid vehicles.K3

Iqbal Hussein, Electric and Hybrid Vehicles: Design Fundamentals, CRC Press, 2003.
MehrdadEhsani, Yimi Gao, Sebastian E. Gay, Ali Emadi, Modern Electric, Hybrid Electric and Fuel Cell Vehicles: Fundamentals, Theory and Design, CRC Press, 2004.

James Larminie, John Lowry, Electric Vehicle Technology Explained, Wiley, 2003.
Chris Mi, M. Abul Masrur, David Wenzhong Gao, Hybrid Electric Vehicles: Principles and Applications with Practical Perspectives, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2011.

This subject is on page 12, 13 of the original AKTU PDF.