The race car build is the assessment task for a Certificate on the student transcript.
Foundations + EV Systems + Build are awarded as Certificate II (AUR20721); Build + Testing + Competition Term add the Certificate III (AUR32721) cluster. Credit is awarded at the end of the cohort by your RTO partner — Charge Academy owns the assessment evidence, not the qualification itself.
Module-by-module mapping
Every kit day, mapped to its AUR32721 unit
Five course modules, eight registered units of competency — one map for the whole year. Read it left to right: each module column lists the units it builds evidence for, with the qualification it banks toward.
Term 1 · Weeks 1–4
Workplace safety, electrical fundamentals, tooling and measurement. No live high voltage yet — kit touch-points are a PPE fit-check, multimeter + torque-wrench station set-up, and the chassis layout walkthrough.
Operate and monitor charging infrastructure — includes the pre-charge routine taught on day one.
Inspect and test HV battery systems — pack-level inspection under safe-handling protocols.
Term 1 · Weeks 5–8
How a 48V BLDC traction motor and a field-oriented controller produce torque from a LiFePO4 pack. Cell-level monitoring, contactor sequencing, pre-charge behaviour, and a bench-test rig with CAN telemetry streamed to a tablet.
Inspect and test HV battery systems — the bench-test rig is the assessment artefact.
Test, charge and replace EV batteries — cell-level monitoring and contactor sequencing.
Inspect and test light vehicle powertrain — real torque / RPM / thermal behaviour, not a toy.
Term 2 · Weeks 1–6
Students fabricate the chassis, mount the powertrain, route the HV loom and integrate the BMS, ESC and CAN bus. Bolted assembly under teacher supervision, with optional MIG welding for advanced cohorts.
Plan and carry out EV modifications — bolted assembly plus supervised MIG welding.
Commission HV propulsion systems — BMS + ESC + CAN bus integration and HV loom routing.
Diagnose light vehicle chassis dynamic systems — chassis panel, roll-cage and powertrain mount.
Term 2 · Weeks 7–9
Pre-competition shakedown. Continuity checks, insulation resistance, thermal soak, fault-injection drills and regen tuning. Kit touch-points are the full system, the telemetry dashboard, and the fault-code simulator.
Diagnose and repair EV drivetrain faults — fault-injection drills and regen tuning.
Test, charge and replace EV batteries — pre-competition charging and thermal-soak checks.
Inspect and test HV battery systems — insulation-resistance evidence closes the unit out.
Term 2–3 · Weeks 10–14 + race circuit
Race-week preparation, scrutineering and the endurance event itself. Each event maps to engineering-presentation evidence that the AUR training package recognises as competency demonstration, validated by an industry judge panel.
Commission HV propulsion systems — scrutineering evidence at race-day inspection.
Plan and carry out EV modifications — race-day performance and post-race debrief evidence.
Diagnose and repair EV drivetrain faults — live fault response during endurance runs.
Some units (for example AURETR112) appear in multiple modules — that's the point. A single portfolio, written across the year, ticks each unit rubric once. Indicative mapping only — your RTO partner signs off formal credit transfer at proposal time.
Reading the map
What the badges mean in plain English
- Cert II onlyThe unit is delivered at the level of Certificate II (safe foundations, supervised practice).
- Cert III onlyThe unit is delivered at the level of Certificate III (independent HV work, fault diagnosis, race-day scrutiny).
- Cert II + Cert IIIThe same evidence banks toward both qualifications — the unit appears on both transcripts if the student completes the Cert III cluster.
What students walk away with
Three things, not one
The program is built so a graduate leaves the cohort with a credential, a result, and a portfolio. Any one of these on its own would be a strong program — together they are why families and principals pick Charge Academy.
Certificate II and Certificate III in Automotive Electric Vehicle Technology (AUR32721) on the student transcript, RTO-signed-off by the end of the cohort. The hours articulate to ATAR and QCE points in every Australian state, and credit toward related engineering and trades apprenticeships.
A national circuit ranking accumulated across five state rounds from March to August, with a finals slot for the championship leaders. Race-day performance that travels back to the AUR32721 portfolio as live competency evidence.
A build journal walked against the unit rubrics, telemetry logs from every race run, and a judge-panel defence interview. The portfolio is what an RTO recognises; it is what an apprenticeship pathway reads first.
In every Australian state, the AUR32721 contribution reads toward ATAR, QCE, HSC, WACE, TCE and SACE through the same VET-in-Schools pathway used by any other Certificate II or III program. Full Certificate III then articulates directly into an automotive electrical apprenticeship pathway.
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