Introduction– History of Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles. Vehicle Fundamentals-General Description of Vehicle Movement, Power Train Tractive Effort and Vehicle Speed.

Vehicle Performance– Maximum Speed of a Vehicle , Gradeability, Acceleration Performance ,Braking Performance , Braking Force , Braking Distribution on Front and Rear Axles.

Electric Vehicles: Configurations of Electric Vehicles, Performance of Electric Vehicles , Traction Motor Characteristics, Tractive Effort and Transmission Requirement , Vehicle Performance , Energy Consumption.

DC Motor Drives: Operating principle, Speed characteristics of DC motors, Combined Armature Voltage and Field Control, Chopper Control of DC Motors.

Control Methods– Two-Quadrant Control -Single Chopper with a Reverse Switch, Class C Two-Quadrant Chopper, Four-Quadrant control.

Induction Motor Drives: Basic Operation Principles of Induction Motors , Steady-State Performance Constant v/f Control, Power Electronic Control.

Field Orientation Control(FOC): Principles of FOC.

Control methods– Direction Rotor Flux control, Indirect Rotor Flux control, Voltage Source Inverter control – Voltage Control, Current Control.

BLDC Motor Drives: BLDC Machine Construction and Classification, Performance Analysis, Control of BLDC Motor Drives.

Control Techniques– Methods Using Observers, Methods Using Back EMF Sensing.

Switched Reluctance Motor Drives (SRM)– Basic Magnetic Structure, Torque Production,

Methods of Control– Phase Flux Linkage Method, Mutually Induced Voltage Method, Observer-Based Method, Self-Tuning Using an Artificial Neural Network.