Thrive with Globally Acclaimed EV Experts

We at EVacad have a panel of world’s renowned EV practitioners with 150+ years of combined Industry experience. Our EV experts deliver power-packed Live sessions and work closely with you on real-world projects to help accelerate your professional growth in the e-mobility industry.

Learn from the greatest minds of EV today to upskill, & master the latest EV technology. Grab this opportunity to transform your career & the world.

Meet our Mentors

Mr. Hemant Padhye

Director, ProBiz Innovations

33+ years experience in Automotive / Powertrain Industry. EVs and Integration expert. Launched 45+ major automotive programs in last 20 years (Passenger Cars and Powertrains). Experience in localization of Powertrains in India (Greenfield Project) – Total 6 Engines.

Mr. Vivek Sahasrabuddhey

Founder, Flekz AutoTech

30+ years industry expertise in 4 organizations for 9 functions. More than 24 programs from ideation to launch. Took 12+ strategic initiatives. 6000+ customer interactions across Europe, South Africa, ASEAN and India.

Mr. Jayant Deshmukh

Director, JK Consultants

30+ years experience in Public transport operations and planning. Expertise at Bus operations, training, financial modeling and maintenance of e- buses. Worked as appointee from Govt of India (MoUHA) for planning and design of bus depots for IC engine and e-buses.

Mr. Jaime Ruiz Huescar

Co-founder, Cities Forum

He has been working with cities, companies and organizations to address and solve their urban and sustainable mobility challenges more efficiently. Passionate about urban future mobility and business models. An eminent international advisor and consultant in the ecosystem of Smart Cities, especially in e-mobility, shared mobility and new mobility services

Mr. Rahul Bagdia

MD, evACAD

20+ years of extremely diverse global experience in various industries like energy & utilities, electric vehicles, etc. He has worked with national and city governments of India and other developing countries supporting e-Mobility strategic road maps, regulations, policies, standards, charging infrastructure development, new business models, and pilots, including e-Buses fleet assessment with multiple operators.

Mr. Vikrant Vaidya

President, evACAD

20+ years of experience in vehicle development & integration - IC Engine, Hybrid Electric as well as Battery Electric Vehicles - for global platforms of Tata Motors, General Motors, Jaguar-Land Rover and Groupe PSA. He has an expertise in product development through powertrain-vehicle integration, model-based controller development and powertrain-in-vehicle calibration

Mr. Shekhar Malani

MD, Devise Electronics

20+ years of diverse experience in automotive powertrain industry. Have worked in engine, vehicle, aftertreatment and power-train controls for multiple emission regulations, hybrids and electric vehicles. Experience of working with multiple engine and vehicle OEMs including Chrysler, Nissan, Freightliner, Tata Motors and Ashok Leyland and across multiple geographies.

Mr. Soma Sekhar Pothuru

Manager - Global Transportation Engineering, Robertshaw

15+ years experience in global automotive design and product development on multiple commercial and special purpose vehicles with expertise in powertrain sizing for IC Engine Vehicles, Battery Electric Vehicles & Fuel Cell Vehicles ; a certified Six-Sigma Green Belt and a Master Trainer for EVs model-based development and systems engineering.

Dr. Ritesh Kesari

Associate Professor, VNIT Nagpur

19+ years of experience working in an academic background. His research interests include design of integrated power electronic converter topologies, wireless charging, design of motor & motor controller for EVs, etc. Also an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Past Chair of Technical Committee on Transportation Electrification.

Ms. Faela Sufa

Director, ITDP - SoutheastAsia

She has worked directly in around 10 countries and over 15 cities giving technical assistance on sustainable urban mobility mainly promoting public transport innovations including electrifications, non-motorized transportation, transport demand management, public policies.

Mr. Chris Liang

Operations Manager, Shenzhen Bus Company

An experienced professional with expertise in fleet management, employee training, corporate management & international development. Chris’ current objective is to share the company’s knowledge on electric public transportation & work with other companies to explore the future of a robust, sustainable public transportation system.

Mr. Ashwani Kumar Pandey

MD, Cellark Powertech

He has developed keen interest in green energy & technology during his stint at IIT Bhubaneswar as a master’s student. He has particular interest in energy efficiency and energy storage technology. He is also a BEE certified energy manager. Under his leadership, Cellark Powertech is indigenizing Lithium-ion cell technology with advanced silicon anodes.

Ms. Abhansha Somvanshi

Sr. Consultant - Transport Planning, pManifold

She has 4+ years’ experience in the field of urban planning, transport planning and e-Mobility for public transportation, strategic planning for urban transport, and traffic modelling, feasibility projects for urban transport.

Ms. Saudamini Telang

Sr. Consultant - Sustainable Transport & e-Mobility, pManifold

With 4+ years of experience in Urban & Transport practices like development planning, public transport systems and e-mobility. She has worked on National, International, Local fronts on e-Mobility roadmaps and many more.

Ms. Saudamini Telang

Sr. Consultant - Sustainable Transport & e-Mobility, pManifold

With 4+ years of experience in Urban & Transport practices like development planning, public transport systems and e-mobility. She has worked on National, International, Local fronts on e-Mobility roadmaps and many more.

Thrive with Globally Acclaimed EV Experts

Meet our Mentors

Mr. Hemant Padhye

Director, ProBiz Innovations

33+ years experience in Automotive / Powertrain Industry. EVs and Integration expert. Launched 45+ major automotive programs in last 20 years (Passenger Cars and Powertrains). Experience in localization of Powertrains in India (Greenfield Project) – Total 6 Engines.

Mr. Vivek Sahasrabuddhey

Founder, Flekz AutoTech

30+ years industry expertise in 4 organizations for 9 functions. More than 24 programs from ideation to launch. Took 12+ strategic initiatives. 6000+ customer interactions across Europe, South Africa, ASEAN and India.

Mr. Jayant Deshmukh

Director, JK Consultants

30+ years experience in Public transport operations and planning. Expertise at Bus operations, training, financial modeling and maintenance of e- buses. Worked as appointee from Govt of India (MoUHA) for planning and design of bus depots for IC engine and e-buses.

Mr. Jaime Ruiz Huescar

Co-founder, Cities Forum

He has been working with cities, companies and organizations to address and solve their urban and sustainable mobility challenges more efficiently. Passionate about urban future mobility and business models. An eminent international advisor and consultant in the ecosystem of Smart Cities, especially in e-mobility, shared mobility and new mobility services

Mr. Rahul Bagdia

MD, evACAD

20+ years of extremely diverse global experience in various industries like energy & utilities, electric vehicles, etc. He has worked with national and city governments of India and other developing countries supporting e-Mobility strategic road maps, regulations, policies, standards, charging infrastructure development, new business models, and pilots, including e-Buses fleet assessment with multiple operators.

Mr. Vikrant Vaidya

President, evACAD

20+ years of experience in vehicle development & integration - IC Engine, Hybrid Electric as well as Battery Electric Vehicles - for global platforms of Tata Motors, General Motors, Jaguar-Land Rover and Groupe PSA. He has an expertise in product development through powertrain-vehicle integration, model-based controller development and powertrain-in-vehicle calibration

Mr. Shekhar Malani

MD, Devise Electronics

20+ years of diverse experience in automotive powertrain industry. Have worked in engine, vehicle, aftertreatment and power-train controls for multiple emission regulations, hybrids and electric vehicles. Experience of working with multiple engine and vehicle OEMs including Chrysler, Nissan, Freightliner, Tata Motors and Ashok Leyland and across multiple geographies.

Mr. Soma Sekhar Pothuru

Manager - Global Transportation Engineering, Robertshaw

15+ years experience in global automotive design and product development on multiple commercial and special purpose vehicles with expertise in powertrain sizing for IC Engine Vehicles, Battery Electric Vehicles & Fuel Cell Vehicles ; a certified Six-Sigma Green Belt and a Master Trainer for EVs model-based development and systems engineering.

Dr. Ritesh Kesari

Associate Professor, VNIT Nagpur

19+ years of experience working in an academic background. His research interests include design of integrated power electronic converter topologies, wireless charging, design of motor & motor controller for EVs, etc. Also an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Past Chair of Technical Committee on Transportation Electrification.

Ms Faela Sufa

Director, ITDP - SoutheastAsia

She has worked directly in around 10 countries and over 15 cities giving technical assistance on sustainable urban mobility mainly promoting public transport innovations including electrifications, non-motorized transportation, transport demand management, public policies.

Mr. Chris Liang

Operations Manager, Shenzhen Bus Company

An experienced professional with expertise in fleet management, employee training, corporate management and international development. Chris’ current objective is to share the company’s knowledge on electric public transportation, and work with other companies to explore the future of a robust, sustainable and customer focused public transportation system.

Ashwani Kumar Pandey

MD, Cellark Powertech

He has developed keen interest in green energy & technology during his stint at IIT Bhubaneswar as a master’s student. He has particular interest in energy efficiency and energy storage technology. He is also a BEE certified energy manager. Under his leadership, Cellark Powertech is indigenizing Lithium-ion cell technology with advanced silicon anodes.

Ms. Abhansha Somvanshi

Sr. Consultant - Transport Planning, pManifold

She has 4+ years’ experience in the field of urban planning, transport planning and e-Mobility for public transportation, strategic planning for urban transport, and traffic modelling, feasibility projects for urban transport.

Ms. Saudamini Telang

Sr. Consultant - Sustainable Transport & e-Mobility, pManifold

With 4+ years of experience in Urban & Transport practices like development planning, public transport systems and e-mobility. She has worked on National, International, Local fronts on e-Mobility roadmaps and many more.

Your Syllabus for Success

5 Modules

Capstone Project

1 : 1 Program Support

Modules

I. Battery Basics

1. Basics of Electrochemistry
2. Electric Circuits - R-L-C and Kirchhoff's Law
3. Simple Electric Circuit using Sci-Lab
4. Electric Circuits - Batteries in Series and Parallel
5. Measurements on cells in series and parallel configurations
6. Battery Specifications
7. Simple Unit cell model in Sci-Lab
8. Battery Chemistries

II. EV Applications

9. EV Battery Pack Configuration
10. Battery sizing calculations using Excel
11. Vehicle Modeling
12. Vehicle modeling using Sci-Lab
13. Battery Pack Selection & Sizing
14. Battery Pack sizing based on vehicle requirements using Excel
15. Battery Thermal & Ageing Aspects
16. Modeling of battery heat generation and Ageing using Excel

III. Battery Management Systems

17. Cell balancing
18. Operational Sensitivity
19. Modeling of effect of temperature and c-Rate on battery using Sci-Lab
20. Basics of Control Systems
21. BMS Functions - SoC and SoH estimation
22. Modeling corrections for SoC and SoH using Sci-Lab.
23. BMS Functions - Charge Control, Diagnostics, etc.
24. Modeling of CC-CV charge controller using Sci-Lab
25. Battery Analytical Representation
26. Transient Battery Model- R-RC & R-RC-RC using Sci-Lab

IV. Battery Modeling and Simulation

27. Battery Pack Modeling
28. Battery pack Modeling using Sci-Lab
29. BMS Modeling & Integration
30. Modeling of regeneration with vehicle and battery pack models in Sci-Lab

V. EV Charging Systems & Ecosystem

31. Battery Charging & Swapping
32. Battery Charging Time / Swap Ratio Calculation using Excel
33. Secondary Use & Recycling
34. Regulations – Batteries & Chargers

VI. EV Customer Usage & Application Analysis

28. Introduction to application analysis
29. Customer profiling & data collection methods _{Live online interactive session with the Gurus + (Capstone Project part 1)}
30. Statistical analysis of measured data
31. Duty cycles from measured data _{Live online interactive session with the Gurus + (Capstone Project part 2})

VII. Design Use Cases from Customer Usage & Application Analysis

32. Mapping customer usage to failure modes
33. Design of Experiments (DoE) _{Live online interactive session with the Gurus + (Capstone Project part - 3)}
34. Concluding from simulation results
35. Using simulation results for decision making _{Live online interactive session with the Gurus + (Capstone Project part - 4)}

VIII. EV Supply Ecosystem

36. OEM sourcing & supplier selection process _{Live online interactive session with the Gurus + (Capstone Project part - 5)}

IX. - EV Policy & Regulation Landscape

37. EV regulations and policy landscape analysis _{Live online interactive session with the Gurus + (Capstone Project part - 6)}

X. EV Energy Infrastructure & High Voltage Safety

38. Charging power, energy, grid liability & mix _{Live online interactive session with the Gurus + (Capstone Project part - 7)}
39. Charging protocols and telematics
40. High voltage safety _{Live online interactive session with the Gurus + (Capstone Project part - 8)}

10+

Globally Renowned EV Mentors

Weekly Hands-on
Project

35+

Hours of Live Session

360°

Learning Experience

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Srikanth Dabbikar

Sr. Engineer, Caterpillar

One of the best online courses on Battery modeling. Very interactive, as the classes are conducted live. I come from rich IC engine experience, & this course has built my interest towards EVs. It helped me to understand what battery design requires.

Ashwani Pandey

Director, CellArk PowerTech

I loved the hands-on modeling part and how EV Academy has synchronized the end mini project with course learnings. This course has helped me to design the battery for several applications & how to think in the right direction for my future start-up.

Ritesh Keshri

Assistant Professor, VNIT

I learnt a lot of new stuff about EVs especially Battery Pack Configuration and Battery Management Systems. Trainers make the session very interactive. I am going to utilize course learning to do research on Sodium and Lithium-ion battery materials.

Bhavesh Rastogi

Head for Battery Business, Gulf Oil

I sincerely appreciate the course, who wanted to have fundamentals clear vis-a-vis connect with the present scenario to adopt and enter EV lithium batteries and associated fields.

Christopher Amewuho

Head of Engineering, Solar Taxi

The program has been very educational and interesting. I was exposed to a new set of tools and modeling techniques which is helping me in my current project of battery design for electric vehicles.

Sandeep Konapur

Sr. Project Engineer, Solize India Pvt. Ltd.

The program teaches simulation using Scilab to all theoretical aspects of unit cell and battery pack to its performance influencing parameters studies. I was able to simulate the charging process and the self-control for a designed battery pack.

How does the program work ?

Live online Interactive sessions with best EV Fleet Planners

Our 21 Live interactive sessions spanned over seven weeks bring together learners from different countries. The world’s best EV Battery experts conduct these sessions to discuss in-depth insights into the EV battery management solutions, to analyze the real-time perspectives from industry, and to answer learner queries/doubts. These sessions are conducted thrice weekly on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday in the evening hours. Each session is for 2 hours.

Weekly Hands-on assignments

Grab the opportunity to work on high value-add hands-on modeling on topics, such as, selection of best battery chemistry for a specific vehicle application, battery pack sizing, battery performance estimation under different conditions, unit cell and controller modeling.

Case Studies

Get to learn from three real life case studies of eBUS system implementations across the globe. Learn directly from experts from India, Jakarta, Shenzhen and other places who implemented eBus systems.

Capstone Project

This program culminates in three capstone projects that encompass real-world scenarios. Devise innovative solutions and build experience working in practical and hands-on settings. Take on a group capstone project to select cell chemistry and sizing of battery pack for an e-Bus, BMS functionality modeling and high level calibration for SoC & SoH estimation, and Battery capacity decision and its charging and discharging pattern analysis

Jury Presentations

Showcase your work to a jury consisting of external and evACAD juries who are leading transport planners, fleet operators, policy makers, and consultants. Jury presentations are conducted towards the end of the capstone project.

Certificate

Earn the most in-demand certification in the Automobile industry jointly accredited by Automotive Skills Development Council (ASDC) and evACAD. Procure your certificate by undertaking a Multiple-Choice assessment conducted by ASDC on program completion.

FAQ

When does the program start and what is the duration?

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How are the Classes conducted?

Electrical Engineering
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What are the financial aid options available for the students?

Electrical Engineering
Electronic Engineering
Mechatronics Engineering

Will I get the Alumni Status?

Electrical Engineering
Electronic Engineering
Mechatronics Engineering

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