24/8/2019
PUNE:
As
automotive OEM companies take calibrated steps towards electric-mobility, the
ecosystem around them is getting ready for e-mobility. From industry research
bodies to engineering colleges and academia, all stakeholders seem to be
working out plans to prepare for the electrification journey.
The Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI)
has been working on setting up a Centre of Excellence for e-mobility in Pune to
offer facilities for developing, testing, validating and certification of
electric vehicles, systems and components for electric vehicles.
KC Vora, senior deputy director of ARAI and ARAI Academy, said these labs would
be operational from October. Companies are working on their electric vehicles
and it takes around a year to test and validate a vehicle, he said, adding that
ARAI has already started certifying electric vehicles.
A first-of-its-kind academic programme has also been
launched in Pune to train engineers in e-mobility with industry and academia
joining hands to nurture the much-needed talent. Three academic institutes are
starting post-graduate diploma programme in electric mobility in association
with the Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture (MCCIA).
The College of Engineering, Pune (CoEP), Cummins
College of Engineering for Women, Pune and Savitribai Phule Pune University
(SPPU) have launched the programme partnering with ARAI and automotive industry
players Bajaj Auto, Kinetic Green, KPIT, Tata Motors and Tata Autocomp Systems
have chipped in. The MCCIA has taken the lead in creating this programme and
bringing both industry and academia together while the institutes will deliver
the programmes. The Cummins College, the department of technology of the SPPU
and CoEP have launched post-graduate diploma course in e-mobility, each taking
in 20 engineers.
CoEP has just signed a MoU with technology company,
Altair, to launch a Centre of Excellence on Electric Mobility to enable more
than 60 engineers to work simultaneously on electric mobility applications.
Altair will act as the technology partner and provide students with simulation
tools and course programming focused on electric mobility from their portfolio
of products.
CoEP has also started a one-year programme in
electric-mobility. Their course curriculum will include energy storage systems,
vehicle dynamics and traction, sensors and controls, IoT and vehicle
communication. This also includes the final semester working on live projects
with the industry.
Bharatkumar Ahuja, director CoEP, said there is a need for trained
manpower and the course is tailor-made to meet the industry needs. Vishwanath
Rao, MD of Altair, said his firm would provide students the latest simulation
tools that the industry uses. Altair has close to 1,000 customers in India
across the automobile industry value chain that use their tools for designing,
engineering and validation of their products and understands the methodology
the industry uses.
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