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Electric Cars: Introduction
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 4 Sequences
- Intermediate Level
Course details
Syllabus
Week 1: EVs in the energy transition
- Introduction
- Technology perspective of EV
- Business perspective of EV
- Policy perspective of EV
- Combining perspectives of Technology, Business and Policy
Week 2: Introduction to Technology of EVs
- Operation of an electric car and key parts
- Types of electric vehicles
- Basics of EV charging
- Case study: Volt and Bolt
- Case study: Lightyear
Week 3: Introduction to Business of EVs
- Electric vehicle mobility business
- Electrification, a sustainable business disruption
- Automation, the need for smart E-mobility
- Connectivity makes auto-mobility cost-efficient
- Case study: Lightyear
Week 4: Introduction to Policy to EVs
- Policy ambitions
- Policies and policy instruments
- EVs in the infrastructure system
- The social dimensions of EVs
Prerequisite
None, but affinity with thebasic concepts that the different tracks (technology of electric cars, business or policy) offer is recommended.
Instructors
Pavol Bauer
Full Professor, Department of Electrical Sustainable Energy
TU Delft
Margot Weijnen
Chair of Process and Energy Systems Engineering
TU Delft
Frank Rieck
Research Professor
Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
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Delft University of Technology (in Dutch: Technische Universiteit Delft), better known as TU Delft, is the oldest and largest public university in the Netherlands.
It is based in Delft, in the Netherlands. In the QS World University Rankings 2022, it is ranked among the top 10 engineering and technology universities in the world. In architecture and civil engineering, it was ranked 2nd in the world, after MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
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