Electric and Hybrid Vehicles: Design Fundamentals [Hardcover]

Iqbal Husain (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 12, 2003 | ISBN-10: 0849314666 | ISBN-13: 978-0849314667 | Edition: 1

With advances driven by pressure from governments, environmental activists, and its associated industries, the subject of electric and hybrid vehicles is becoming increasingly important. Trends clearly suggest that we must educate the engineers of today and tomorrow in the technical details of these vehicles. While there are many books that provide narrative descriptions of electric and hybrid vehicle components, none cover the technical aspects from a mathematically derived, design point of view, and none serve well as a textbook.

Electric and Hybrid Vehicles: Design Fundamentals presents a comprehensive, systems-level perspective of these vehicles that strikes an outstanding balance between technical details, design equations, numerical examples, and case studies. Starting with some historic background, the author describes the system components, the laws of physics governing vehicle motion, the mathematical relationships within and between the components, energy sources, and designing components to meet the complete vehicle specifications.

As this text illustrates, the electric vehicle is an excellent example of electro-mechanical and electro-chemical systems, one that is technically challenging as well as highly motivating to engineering students. The material presented is designed to be covered comfortably in a one-semester course. Its multidisciplinary nature and systems approach makes Electric and Hybrid Vehicles ideal for teaching electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineers all in one course.

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About the Author

Iqbal Husain is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Akron in Ohio. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University. Dr. Husain is the founder of the Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Program at the University of Akron, which encompasses graduate and undergraduate courses, research on electric drives for electric and hybrid vehicles, and collegiate-level competitions on alternative vehicles. An IEEE Fellow, he is the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award, the IEEE-IAS Outstanding Young Member award, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the College of Engineering Outstanding Researcher Award, and the Society of Automotive Engineers Vincent Bendix Automotive Electronics Engineering Award.

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (March 12, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0849314666
• ISBN-13: 978-0849314667
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,277,685 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #18 in Books > Professional & Technical > Automotive > Electric & Hybrid

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Hard to follow, not much practical information, March 21, 2007

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Joan C. Frank (Silver Spring, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Electric and Hybrid Vehicles: Design Fundamentals (Hardcover)

This book is very hard to follow. The author presents examples (and sometimes answers) without outlining how to solve the problems. This is very frustrating! Most of the work in the book is calculus-based which would not be a problem if the steps for deriving the equations were more explicit. The information is very theoretical with little practical relevance to electric car design. The author starts out by explaining generic vehicle mechanics and then jumps right into battery chemistry and motors. Very little effort is spent on the interrelationships between these elements. The author does a decent job describing motor fundamentals, but he does not spend much time discussing the practical limitations of the technology. The hybrid discussion is relegated to the last chapter of the book, and then only a few pages are devoted to explaining this technology. Most of the chapter is spent describing various thermodynamic cycles such as the Otto cycle and Rankine cycle. Curiously,at this point the author resorts to a very high level discussion of these cycles, using very little math to show the effects of the electric motor on the function and efficiency of the traditional ICE vehicle.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid on Fundamentals, September 22, 2007

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Envoy (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Electric and Hybrid Vehicles: Design Fundamentals (Hardcover)

Dr. Husain is an Electrical Engineer, therefore his book focuses primarily on the electrical, magnetic, electromagnetic & electromechanical aspects of EV & HEV vehicle design. From this perspective, his book is very solid on fundamental EV & HEV design considerations and component analyses. However, the continuously variable transmission (CVT)... including planetary gearsets (used in CVTs to combine/split torque) is a key HEV component. Consequently, I view omitting their discussion as dissapointing. On the other hand, Dr. Husain's text is very well written/edited and his style of explaining technical details is conversational, yet professional. I recommend this book without hessitation.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too Academic, November 26, 2007

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Peter "Peter" (Adelaide, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Electric and Hybrid Vehicles: Design Fundamentals (Hardcover)

Very academic. A lot of electrical theory not much practical advice for building an EV. The book is designed for university students I think.