EV Battery Plastics & Thermal Management

Battery enclosure plastics, thermal management, cell-adjacent material selection, and the design constraints unique to electrified-vehicle powertrains.

Private cohorts & on-site
Format: 3-day (8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.)
Level: Advanced
Location: Scheduled on demand · on-site at your facility or a regional venue
Date(s): Not yet scheduled for open enrollment. Get notified when it is, or book it privately for your team.
Includes: Certificate of Completion · printed slide binder · take-home reference text

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Faculty

Faculty details for this seminar will be announced with the full schedule.

Fees

Early: $1,895 (payment 4+ weeks ahead)
Standard: $2,095 (check/ACH) · $2,165 (card)

Group discount: $200 off per attendee for 3+ from the same organization.

Also Available

  • Corporate on-site delivery at your facility
  • Private cohort sessions
  • Digital curriculum licensing

Seminar Overview

The battery enclosure is now the most demanding plastics application in the vehicle — structural, thermal, flame-resistant, and electrically insulating, all in one part. This seminar teaches the plastics engineering of EV battery systems: enclosure materials (structural and flame-retardant thermoplastics, SMC, composites), thermal management materials and interfaces, high-voltage electrical insulation, and the failure/liability modes that follow a battery event. Taught from failure-analysis depth, it prepares engineers to design and de-risk battery plastics for the 800V era.

Ideal Learner

  • Battery pack and enclosure engineers
  • Thermal management and materials engineers on EV programs
  • High-voltage electrical insulation specialists
  • Failure-analysis engineers investigating battery events
  • OEM and Tier-1 engineers building EV materials capability

Learning Objectives

  • Select structural and flame-retardant materials for battery enclosures
  • Design thermal interfaces and materials for pack temperature control
  • Engineer high-voltage polymer insulation for dielectric and tracking resistance
  • Address creep, vibration, crash, and thermal-runaway response of enclosure plastics
  • Investigate and prevent battery-plastic failure modes

Consulting Sessions

Seminar attendees can sign up for individual consulting sessions with the instructor. Sessions are free for registered attendees, first-come first-served — sign up when registering by calling 248-539-0473 or during the seminar.

Seminar Outline

  • Pack structure, thermal, and safety requirements in one part
  • Materials landscape: FR thermoplastics, SMC, composites, stamped metal + insulation
  • Standards: UL 94, IEC/EN 62660, thermal-runaway containment
  • Carbon/glass-filled systems for stiffness + lightweighting
  • CTE matching to cells and busbars
  • Crash, vibration, and global stiffness of the tray and cover
  • Thermal interface materials (TIMs) and gap pads
  • Coolant systems and polymer flow paths
  • Thermal runaway propagation barriers and fire-resistant composites
  • Dielectric strength and tracking resistance of polymer systems
  • Partial discharge and creep across surfaces
  • 800V-specific insulation requirements
  • Battery-plastic failure: thermal, mechanical, electrical
  • Post-event forensic investigation and evidence
  • The emerging EV liability landscape
  • Attendees select materials for a battery enclosure
  • Address structural, thermal, and insulation requirements
  • Present the de-risked design

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