Electric Powertrain: Energy Systems, Power Electronics and Drives for Hybrid, Electric and Fuel Cell Vehicles

Perfect to give the first steps at the electromobility field and even get deeper in certain areas. As a mechanical engineer working around 20 years in the car industry I certainly recommend this book.

Super easy to follow and gives a great high level picture of power trains.

But Chapter 7, "The Brushed DC Machine", Pages 178-204, missing.

I have been designing inverters (primarily for xEV’s) since 1997. This week, an enthusiastic young engineer joined my team. He stated that before digging into details of the inverter, he wanted a broad overview of the entire electrical propulsion system. Had he joined prior to the appearance of the book “Electric Powertrain: Energy Systems, Power Electronics and Drives for Hybrid, Electric and Fuel Cell Vehicles”, I would have wished him good luck piecing together such diverse information. Fortunately for my young colleague, the book was recently published. Until reading this book, I had shamefully little understanding of the overall electric powertrain. It took me just three weeks to eat this book up from front to back. It taught me SO MUCH!The authors don’t simply spit out facts. Their information is supported by math, but is conveyed in a manner that facilitates intuitive understanding. They have included critical equations that are incredibly useful to practicing engineers. (I have only seen a few of these published before, scattered in obscure technical papers.) Fortunately, much understanding can be derived by those who’s math skills are rusty (or nonexistent). I consider this the second best book in my extensive library of technical books. Highly recommended!

What an insightful textbook- hands-down THE best that I've found when it comes to Electric Vehicle technology! I found this text in 2018 (the year it was published) and it was quite refreshing to find content that was broken down from the engineering side in a manner that someone from a more technical background can understand... (myself having backgrounds in both and am appreciative of the structure of this text). I haven't found any other textbooks that come close to this (in comparison to approximately 11 other textbooks I've reviewed over the last 4 years). I have been using this text to enhance my understanding of xEVs since I received an instructor's copy last year, and I will be using this text going forward as part of the Electric Vehicles class I will begin teaching next semester.Thank you to the authors, Dr. John Hayes and Dr. Abas Goodarzi, for taking the time and effort to make this textbook possible!