Course Goal

After the course, the participants have learnt:

• How systems of battery electric vehicles and stationary charging can be made cost-effective and fit the need of different users.

• How some vehicle types differ regarding how they are best electrified.

• How the battery is sized to reduce overall system cost

• To suggest a suitable charging strategy for a vehicle

• Some different types of chargers and when they are suitable

 

For Whom

The course is aimed at both engineers and researchers working on some aspects of electromobility.

It is open for PhD students within the field and employees of one of the partner companies in the Swedish Electromobility Centre. PhD students need to be part of the SEC Doctoral Network to take this course. If you are not yet a member you can register to the SEC Doctoral Network through the SEC website as long as you work within the electromobility field in Sweden.

The course is not aimed to make the participants experts on electromobility system design, but rather to make them so familiar with the overall system, its use, and its total cost, that they can become more effective within their respective areas and can cooperate effectively with experts working on other parts of the electromobility system.

 

Prerequisites

It is necessary to have a Master of Science in engineering, or corresponding experience, and to have a basic understanding of vehicles. Necessary basic analysis methods and equations will be introduced in the lectures, but it is expected that the participants have a basic understanding of energy and power. Detailed knowledge about vehicles or chargers is not required but will be useful in the course. If necessary, the project tasks can be somewhat adjusted to fit participants from different backgrounds.

 

Course Structure

The course includes several parts which are mixed during the course:

• Course and project introduction via Zoom

• Online pre-recorded video lectures with online exercises, to be done individually at home. These lectures provide background knowledge about electromobility systems and how to analyze them.

• A project task is divided into three analysis steps, which are done in groups of about 3-6 participants. Each project group can decide individually when to work on their tasks.

• There will be some supervision times with each group, by Zoom or face-to-face in Göteborg, at times agreed between the teacher and the group.

• Three 4-hour seminars are mandatory, at which the groups will present their project tasks followed by a discussion and comparison of the presented systems. The seminars may require you to travel, depending on where you live. The place for the seminars is not yet decided, depending a little on where the course participants come from, but at least 1 and probably 2 will be in or close to Göteborg. We will try to coordinate one of the seminars with a PhD network meeting.

 

Project Task

The core of the course is a project in which the group shall suggest a solution with electric vehicles, chargers, and charging strategy for one type of vehicle. The proposed solution shall be analyzed using the methods taught in the course, and the result should show why the solution is cost-effective and attractive for its intended customers. The groups and the examiner jointly decide what vehicle each group shall analyze. Each group has its own vehicle to analyze, such that the presentations and discussions shall demonstrate a wide set of different solutions. The vehicles to be studied may for example be different types of private cars, taxis, wheel loaders, buses, trucks, construction, or mining equipment.

 

Project Groups

The participants will be divided into smaller groups of 3-6 persons for the project tasks, preferably from the same city/area to simplify for the groups to meet.

 

Examination

The course will be graded “pass” or ”fail”. The grade “pass” requires:

• The online question after each video lecture is to be answered with sufficiently many correct answers.

• All three project tasks are to be solved, reported, and presented satisfactorily.

• Each participant has presented and been able to “defend” one part of the project tasks. There will not be any written exam, but in the event of uncertainty or for instance that a student misses the final presentations due to illness, an individual oral examination may be used.

 

Course credits (suggested)

The course is planned for 5.0 hp for students with an engineering background. To have these credits within your PhD curriculum you need the approval of your examiner.

 

Cost

The course is free of charge for PhD students within the electromobility field at a Swedish University and for participants from the partner companies in the Swedish Electromobility Centre. Any traveling to seminars is booked and paid for by the participants.

 

Registration

Register at Swedish Electromobility Centre’s website, at the latest 17 March. In the event of too many registered, PhD students will have priority.

A link to the course will be sent to participants close to the start date.

 

Course Schedule

Start 17 April 2023

End 15 June 2023

Seminars: Time of day, and place not yet decided.

The groups plan their own meetings and book supervision meetings when needed.

When	What	Time for participants	“Where”
Week 16 17 Apr 10.00-12.00 18 – 21 Apr 18 – 21 Apr	Course Introduction + introd. Project task 1 Video lectures and online exercises (any time) Groups to discuss which vehicle to analyze	2 h 13 h 2 h	At your computer At your computer Group meeting
Week 17 24 – 28 Apr	Decide vehicle to analyze in project Project task 1 Video lectures and online exercises (any time)	1 h 9 h 7 h	Group meeting Group & Individual At your computer
Week 18  (4 days) 2 – 5 May	Project task 1 Supervision meeting	12 h 1 h	Group & Individual Online
Week 19 8 – 9 May 10 May 11 – 12 May	Project task 1 Project seminar task 1 + Introd. project task 2 Project task 2	10 h 4 h 2 h	Group & Individual Göteborg? Group & Individual
Week 20 (3 days) 15 – 17 May	Project task 2	12 h	Group & Individual
Week 21 22 – 26 May	Project task 2 Supervision meeting	15 h 1 h	Group & Individual Online
Week 22 29  May 30 May 31 May – 2 June	Project task 2 Project seminar task 2 + Introd. project task 3 Project task 3	3 h 4 h 6 h	Group & Individual Göteborg? Group & Individual
Week 23 (4 days) 5 – 9 June	Project task 3 Supervision meeting	12 h 1 h	Group & Individual Online – Zoom
Week 24 12 – 14 June 15 June	Project task 3 Project seminar task 3	12 h 4 h	Group & Individual Göteborg?
	total	133 h = 5 hp

 

Examiner

Anders Grauers, 031-772 3729, anders.grauers@chalmers.se

 

Course Literature

Video lectures, online exercises, and hand-outs are available on the course portal.

 

THE REGISTRATION FOR THE EVENT IS CLOSED.