About

Nagendra Reddy Mukkamalla is a Senior System Engineer with expertise in Electric Vehicles, 1D Simulations, and Vehicle Energy Management. He is currently working at Polaris, where he is responsible for conducting 1D analysis to understand the sensitivity of vehicle level attributes like acceleration performance and EV range with respect to system efficiencies. He also provides solutions to meet project requirements and offers motor and battery sizing support for ePT architects. Nagendra generates test cases for driveline systems characterization with a focus on efficiency. With 5.86 years of relevant experience, Nagendra has previously worked at Mahindra & Mahindra as a Senior Engineer. There, he was part of the vehicle energy management team that collaborated with different system COEs to optimize system level energy requirements, resulting in improved ICE fuel economy or EV range. He also conducted model-based design/1D simulations for electric vehicle range optimization and ICE fuel economy, benchmarked component level friction/energy, and set targets for auxiliary loads, tire rolling resistance, residual brake drag, transmission, and axle drag. Nagendra set vehicle level road load targets and demonstrated them on vehicles. He also measured drive train frictional losses, fuel economy, and electrical vehicle range on the chassis dynamometer and developed brake energy regeneration strategies for electric vehicles to improve range. Nagendra has a Master of Technology (M.Tech.) degree in Thermal & Fluids Engg from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, RKValley. He has experience in using test and Python as part of his tech stack.