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Introduction 2
Learning objectives 3
Course overview 3
Learning activities 6
Assessment 7
Expectations 8
Resources & Tools 9
Certificates & License 10
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Introduction
Welcome to this self paced course Electric Cars: Technology! This document is
the course syllabus and provides you with all the important information about
this MOOC. Be sure to read it carefully, as it contains information about the
contents, learning objectives, the grading structure and the types of assignments.
Electric Vehicles (EVs) are the future of transportation. Electric mobility has become
an essential part of the energy transition, and will imply significant changes for vehicle
manufacturers, governments, companies and individuals.
This course is the second in a series of four and provides you with an in-depth
understanding on electric cars (e-cars) from a technology perspective. Key experts
from the domain of technology of EVs will be the instructors in the course videos. The
workload is about 4 hours per week. For this course, previous knowledge about the
concepts taught in the MOOC Electric Cars: Introduction is required.
The course includes video lectures, presentations and other learning activities,
which are reinforced with real-world case studies from projects that were
implemented in the Netherlands.
The experts of TU Delft, together with the Dutch Innovation Centre for Electric
Road Transport (D-INCERT) and other knowledge institutes and companies in the
Netherlands, will prepare you for upcoming developments amid the transition to
electric vehicles.
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Learning objectives
By following this course, you will learn to:
• Identify the types of motors and drivetrains used in electric cars and their
advantages and disadvantages.
• Understand the basics of power electric converters used in electric cars and the
operation of DC/DC converters.
• Describe the principles of battery operation and the key performance parameters.
• Understand the charging methods of EVs covering: AC charging, DC charging,
smart charging, vehicle-to-grid technology, ICT for charging.
• Understand the concepts of future technologies for electric cars, namely: wireless
charging, battery swap, autonomous driving, solar EVs and charging of EVs from
renewables.
Course overview
The MOOC consists of a 'Getting Started' module to introduce you to the platform,
four modules of learning, and a final wrap-up week. This section goes through the
planning and contents of each of the modules allowing you to better integrate these
modules within your own schedule.
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Learning activities
This course consists of the following learning activities:
• Video lectures discussing the different topics
• Assignments to test your knowledge on the topic
• Self reviewing your essay written for the final assignment
• Case studies
• Panel discussions
• Additional learning material to support the video lectures and assignments
• Discussion topics in the forum
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Assessment
The scheme below shows the global grading of the course. You can obtain a total of
80% by successfully completing all graded activities in each of the modules.
Modules 0 and 5 do not contain any graded activities. You can earn the
remaining 20% by successfully completing the final assignment, a self
assessment essay. The passing grade for this course is 60%.
Module 1
How Does an
EV Work?
20% 20%
20%
Module 2
Battery Technology
Final assignment pass: for EVs
Essay + Self 60%
assessment
20% 20%
80%
Module 3
20% Charging of EVs
Module 4
Graded activities Future Electric
Mobility
Self assessment
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Expectations
What you can expect from the course team:
• The lecturers will provide state of the art content every module.
• This is not an instructor-guided course, but the course team will be available to
check the forums and deal with any technical questions or issues. However, we
will not be monitoring the forums as often as in a guided course.
• Therefore, we strongly encourage you to contribute to the discussions in the
forums of this course, as it will make learning more interactive, increase your
knowledge on the subject and allow you to be helped or to help others.
• By assisting each other in solving commonly-experienced course issues we create
a sense of community, which is part of the experience of online learning.
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• Be sensitive to your peers’ background and culture. This is a global forum with
participants with very diverse nationalities. Please keep this in mind when
discussing your own work or results of others.
• Post appropriate content. Content that violates the edX Terms of Service is not
permitted.
• Be respectful to your peers. We encourage debate and discussion but only when
this is done in a polite and respectful manner. We do not tolerate rude behavior,
condescending or abusive words. Instances will be reported and removed.
Resources
On top of the online web-based learning environment of edX for which you need a
browser, this course will provide you with Portable Document Files (PDF). You will
only need to open and read these PDF documents, which you can do using e.g. the
Adobe Acrobat Reader on Windows and OSX, or the integrated Document Reader
in Ubuntu (Linux).
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License
Unless otherwise specified the course materials of this course are Copyright Delft
University of Technology and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-
NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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