Electric Vehicle Transit Bus Safety Awareness & Familiarization

Self-Paced Online Course

Special Instructions: To ensure successful login for this course, student login is required upon receipt of login instructions sent by the instructor via email. The entire course delivery is self-paced. Online registration is required.

Prerequisites: DVOM Course (preferred) or thorough understanding of meters or equivalent experience.

Course Description: This course will provide a general understanding of safety do’s and don'ts when working around all-electric high voltage (HV) transit vehicles. This course is not intended as a replacement for manufacture-specific training and does not qualify the student to diagnose, repair, and work on HV vehicles.

1. Similarities & Differences of Transit Bus Equipment
2. High Voltage System Overview
3. Safety and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
4. Units of Energy – Differences between fuel and electrical energy
5. Facility Considerations for EV transit vehicles

Course Benefits: Students will become familiar with all-electric high voltage (HV) transit vehicles including high voltage electrical systems and their safe operation. Students will learn essential aspects of the high-voltage drive system including safety protection and safe operation.

Who Should Attend: Transit agency technicians/mechanics who need to familiarize themselves with all-electric high voltage (HV) transit vehicles.

What you will learn:

• Identify the vehicle's high-voltage components
• Explain the required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
• Describe the preparations prior to working on or near any high-voltage systems
• Explain the vehicle safety systems
• Identify HV Components and cables in an EV transit bus
• Understand the definitions, terminology, and units of measure, of electrical energy storage and consumption

Number of Hours/Days: Self-paced online learning over 2 weeks.

Continuing Education Units (CEU): 0

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