ELECTRIC AND HYBRID VEHICLES: A Practical Engineering Handbook for Powertrain Technology, Batteries, and Charging SystemsA Practical Engineering Handbook for Powertrain Technology, Batteries, and Charging Systems

Nobody's job is "electric vehicle engineer." That's the whole problem.

Vehicle electrification isn't a single technology. It's the point where four mature disciplines — electrochemistry, power electronics, electrical machines, and vehicle dynamics — are forced to share one set of constraints and settle their trade-offs against each other.

An engineer who understands batteries but not the road-load equation will oversize the pack. An engineer who understands motor control but not thermal management will design a drive that performs beautifully for ninety seconds. The difficulty here has never been the depth of any one subject. It's the coupling between them.

Electric and Hybrid Vehicles is built around that coupling.

Every chapter stands on its own technically, and every chapter is wired explicitly to the ones feeding it and the ones drawing from it. When Chapter 6 sets a charge-acceptance limit for the pack, Chapter 12 treats that limit as a hard ceiling on regenerative braking and Chapter 14 treats it as the reason your fast-charge curve tapers. Work through it in order and you finish with a model of the vehicle in which no component floats free of the rest.

What you'll be able to do:

Size a pack and a machine from a stated duty cycle, not a rule of thumb

Build an equivalent-circuit battery model, extract its parameters from pulse tests, and estimate SOC and SOH

Design an inverter thermal path and account for conduction and switching losses honestly

Implement field-oriented control with MTPA, field weakening, and MTPV across the full envelope

Blend friction and regenerative braking within the adhesion corridor

Explain precisely why rated range and real range disagree

The vehicle: road load from first principles — rolling resistance, drag, grade, rotating mass · energy over a drive cycle · traction limits and gradeability · efficiency chains and why a scalar efficiency lies to you · systematic sizing · the ampere-hour trap.

The energy store: how a lithium-ion cell works · cathode and anode chemistries including the silicon question · formats, datasheets, Ragone diagrams · equivalent-circuit modeling and Kalman-filter estimation · calendar and cycle aging · pack architecture, cooling strategy, thermal uniformity, BMS and balancing · contactors, precharge, thermal runaway and propagation · supercapacitors, fuel cells, hydrogen storage, and hybrid storage systems.

The powertrain: switching devices, buck and boost, the three-phase inverter, modulation, loss accounting, the DC-link capacitor, and the real case for 800 volts · induction, PMSM, and synchronous reluctance machines · operating envelopes and efficiency maps · Clarke and Park, current loop design, torque security · series, parallel, and power-split hybrids with full planetary kinematics · P0 through P4 · single- versus two-speed transmissions · rule-based, ECMS, and dynamic-programming energy management.

Charging and safety: on-board chargers · connectors and standards · the control pilot, digital authentication, and the charging profile · preconditioning · wireless and bidirectional power flow · grid impact · unearthed HV systems, isolation monitoring, interlock loops, discharge requirements, crash response · functional safety, hazard analysis, and integrity levels.

Then validation: backward- and forward-facing simulation, how much model is enough, drive cycles and certification procedures, hardware-in-the-loop, and where correlation between model and vehicle breaks down.

Every chapter carries worked examples with units tracked through every algebraic step, a summary, practice problems building from single-concept exercises to system-level analysis, and a full answer key.

Reference material designed to outlive the reading: component and material data tables, a standards index organized by topic, unit conversions and physical constants, drive-cycle definitions with summary statistics, a complete symbol list, glossary, and index.

Who this is for: upper-level undergraduate and graduate students who want derivations from stated first principles rather than results handed down. And practicing engineers arriving from combustion powertrain, industrial drives, aerospace electrical systems, or grid power electronics, who need the standards landscape mapped and the vocabulary made precise.

You'll need calculus and differential equations, circuit analysis, elementary thermodynamics and heat transfer, and Newtonian mechanics. You won't need any prior electrochemistry, machine theory, or power electronics — each is built from the ground up.

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