NOTE: This curriculum comes standard when purchasing one of our educational programs:
Electric Vehicle Curriculum
Adaptable, Comprehensive, and Cost Effective.
Electric Vehicles: A Systems Approach provides the foundational knowledge technicians need to safely service all types of electric vehicles (EVs). With a strong emphasis on high-voltage safety, this textbook navigates the complexities of high-voltage drive trains using an easy-to-understand, approachable writing style and engaging visuals. Using real-world examples and illustrations, the text provides an understanding of ICE-hybrid, battery-electric, and fuel cell operation. Coverage includes CAN Bus Communication Systems and telematics in the context of electric vehicles. It incorporates all forms of electric vehicle transportation, including passenger vehicles, construction vehicles, and commercial vehicles. Author Sean Bennett addresses electric vehicles from a technician’s perspective, providing them with a strong background in EV technology and giving them an incredible opportunity for rapid advancement in the automobile repair industry.
- Focuses on safety, including general service facility safety, high-voltage electricity safety, specialty tools, circuit isolation, and first responder practices
- Includes an overview of high-voltage drive train topology and powertrain schematics that illustrate the power flow of typical BEVs, HEVs, PHEVs, and FCEVs
- Examines electric vehicle battery chemistry, electric motor technology, EV power electronics, and energy storage management
Standard: Electric Vehicle Curriculum
The standard package includes the Electric Vehicle: A Systems Approach textbook (comprehensive EV foundation, regardless of whether your course is introductory or includes significant physics and engineering concepts), the Online Instructor Resources (suggested lectures, discussion topics and tests), along with Switch community access.
A Complete STEM & CTE Curriculum
A high-impact, project-based learning system for STEM and CTE education at the college, trade/vocational school, high school and junior high levels.
Switch Lab™ Course Lengths
- 17 week semester course
- 8 week after-school course
- 2 week intensive summer course
Included:
- 25 EV textbooks (digital/print)
- Online Instructor Resources
- 4 years access to curriculum
- Assembly Manual (Digital)
- Switch Community Access
Curriculum Options
- Electric Vehicles: A Systems Approach
- Fundamentals of Electricity
- Soft Skills for the Workplace
Add-on: Fundamentals of Electricity
An introductory course to familiarize students with basic principles and applications for electricity. This text provides a practical & concise introduction to sources of electricity, circuit types, electric motors, measuring instruments, generators, transformers, inductance, capacitance, solid-state devices, wireless devices, and solder/desoldering.
Nine projects are included to provide students with hands-on learning opportunities related to the concepts learned throughout the text. (includes Instructor Online Resources)
Add-on: Soft Skills for the Workplace
Presents the major soft skills needed for job success in one easy-to-use text. Fourteen short, concise lessons provide information that will prepare your students to find and keep a job. The modular format allows the content to be used in conjunction with your Switch Lab EV and for any discipline. Each chapter can be used as a supplemental conversation starter with your students or as an individual assignment.
A free companion website provides additional activities for reinforcement. (Includes Instructor Online Resources)
Look Inside
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Introduction to Electric Vehicle Drive Trains
- General Service Facility Safety
- High-Voltage Electricity Safety
- High-Voltage Drive Train Topology
- Adapting the ICE and Transmission for HEV Drive
- Fuel Cell Source Power
- Electrical Energy Storage Systems
- CAN Bus and Electronic Control Systems
- Drive Train Electricity and Electronics
- Traction Motors
- Charging and Hydrogen Refueling
- Training Standards
- Specialty Tools, Circuit Isolation, and First Responder Practices
- Service and Diagnostic Routine
- Alternative Electric Vehicle Applications
