The Development of Basic Electric Vehicle Handbook

Abstract

       The research objectives were to develop the basic electric vehicle handbook and evaluate the implementation of the basic electric vehicle handbook for the sales representative of a battery electric car (BEV) dealer. For research methodology, there were four main steps: 1) the study and data collection related to battery electric vehicles 2) the development of the basic electric vehicle handbook by the working group 3) the evaluation of the basic electric vehicle handbook by 5 experts and 4) the implementation of the basic electric vehicle with the target group. The target group of this research was 15 sales representatives from a battery electric car dealer in Bangkok, which were selected from the purposive random sampling. The research tools were the basic electric vehicle handbook, the four-choice test, and the satisfaction questionnaire. The statistics for this research were mean and standard deviation.
       The results found that the basic electric vehicle handbook consisted of 7 topics: 1) History of electric vehicle and types of electric vehicle 2) Working principles and main components of the power transmission system 3) Batteries of electric vehicle 4) Charging systems of electric vehicle 5) Safety and convenience systems of electric vehicle 6) Maintenance of electric vehicles and 7) BEV driving instruction and the use of equipment in BEV. For the implementation results, the basic electrical vehicle handbook had the efficiency at 82.59/85.63 and the satisfaction level was at a high level.