Week 6 Session 13

The battery pack and charging system of the vehicle would vary depending on various factors such as size, performance, range, cost etc.

For comparison, the following vehicles are considered here.

i)Mahindra e2o Plus P2.

It uses a 64V, 280 Ah Lithium Ion battery. The battery is made of 16 modules and a total of 64 cells.

The stock vehicle comes with 2 charger options:3 kW single Phase 16 A charger and 10 kW 3 Phase 32 A charger in addition to this it also supports DC fast charging.

ii)Tata Nexon EV

it uses a 30.2 kWh, 320 Volt, Lithium Ion Polymer battery. It supports AC and dc charging.It supports ac charging at 3.2 KW and DC charging at 30KW

iii)Tesla Model 3

It uses a 82Kwh,350 V, lithium iron phosphate battery. The Standard Range version carries 2,976 cells arranged in 96 groups of 31.This offers large verity of charging options in ac and DC.It supports ac charging at 11KW and DC charging at 250KW

These 3 models are chosen as they belong to 3 entirely different segments of EVs.