Electric Vehicle Technology Fundamentals

Engineering students, technicians and engineers from other fields who want to understand how an electric vehicle works. School physics and basic electrical terms are enough to start.

No. It is built on NPTEL's free public lectures from IIT Madras, credited on each module, but it is not the NPTEL programme and is not affiliated with NPTEL or IIT Madras. EDWartens wrote the notes, practice, project and assessment.

Only briefly. This course is about the vehicle: drivetrain, battery, BMS and motor. Charging infrastructure is a subject of its own.

Some, all at school level: force, power, energy and simple battery arithmetic. Every formula is worked through with an example.

Yes. Every module, the notes, the project and the final assessment. The only paid item is the certificate, if you want it.

An EDWartens Certificate of Completion, issued when you pass the final assessment, with a number anyone can verify on our site.

About 7 hours of video lectures, plus time for the notes, worked problems and practice questions. Allow about 10 more hours if you do the optional project.

You specify the battery pack for an electric cargo three-wheeler: an energy study in Wh/km, pack sizing for the end-of-life range, a bill of materials, an FMEA and a validation plan. A worked sample pack for a company near Cairo, Egypt, shows what each document looks like.

Yes. Learning costs ₹0 in India: every module, the written notes, the practice tasks and the final assessment, with no card and no trial period. The only paid item is the optional EDWartens Certificate of Completion, ₹499 including GST for this beginner course, paid in rupees through Razorpay, and only if you want it after passing the final assessment.

The Electric Vehicle Technology Fundamentals course has 9 modules. It opens with "How an electric vehicle works", goes through "Electric vehicles in India", "Drive cycles and energy per kilometre", "State of charge, state of health, the battery pack and charging" and "Motors and controllers" and ends with "Final Assessment". The full list with minutes is under "What you learn" on this page.

After the Electric Vehicle Technology Fundamentals course: Describe the parts of an electric drivetrain and how energy flows; Explain why two- and three-wheelers lead India's EV market; Calculate drag, rolling resistance, gradient force and power. These are the practical outcomes the course is written around, and the final assessment of 15 questions checks them.

For the Electric Vehicle Technology Fundamentals course, software: None required. A spreadsheet helps with the calculations. Hardware: none. The course itself is free.

Electric Vehicle Technology Fundamentals is rated beginner. Beginner. You should be comfortable with school physics (force, energy, power) and basic electrical terms (voltage, current, resistance). The course builds everything else step by step. It is written for engineering students, automotive and electrical engineers moving into EVs, and has 6h 58m of video lessons at your own pace.

Skills from the Electric Vehicle Technology Fundamentals course (for example: describe the parts of an electric drivetrain and how energy flows) are used in electric vehicle engineer work. The course gives you practical evidence of the skill; it does not promise a job, and employers decide on experience and interview.