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Books : Electric and Hybrid Vehicles: Design FundamentalsIn association with Amazon.comby: Iqbal Husain  List Price: $99.95 Amazon.com's Price: $79.96 You Save: $19.99 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 629.2293 EAN: 9780849314667 ISBN: 0849314666 Label: CRC Manufacturer: CRC Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: March 12, 2003 Publisher: CRC Studio: CRC Sales Rank: 386301 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Too AcademicVery academic. A lot of electrical theory not much practical advice for building an EV. The book is designed for university students I think. Rating:  - Solid on FundamentalsDr. 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 ... Read More Rating:  - Question the MF Momen review...One must temper the fact that M. F. Momen has written papers with the author. Such as "Lightly Ferromagnetic Rotor Bars for Three-Phase Squirrel-Cage Induction Machines". I have not read this book but rate it as the first reviewer since the other review is invalid. Rating: - Hard to follow, not much practical informationThis 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. ... Read More Rating:  - A timely and valuable book in EVThis book is very helpful for an extensive overview of all the design perspectives regarding EV and HEVs. Very timely book and deserves to be a constant reference for ongoing EV research. Browse for similar items by category:
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