This study is to investigate the cooling performance of the battery in the electric vehicle depending on the attachment of the cooling plates and materials to the battery cells. Research focused on the numerical comparison of forced convective heat transfer coefficients with case 1(cell-Al, cooling plate-None), case 2(cell-Al, cooling plate-Al), case 3(cell-Al, cooling plate-C), and case 4(cell-C, cooling plate-Al). Normalized local Nusselt number of the cooling area at the normalized width position indicated that the heat transfer coefficient of the case 1 was averaging at 7, 14.5, 11.9% lower than that of case 2, case 3, and case 4. Based on case 3, the cooling performance with six different types of mass flow rates (0.05, 0.075, 0.0875, 0.1, 0.125, 0.15 kg/s) were compared. Normalized local Nusselt number at the normalized width position indicated that the heat transfer coefficient of 0.0875 kg/s was averaging at 35.8, 11.9% higher than that of 0.05, 0.075 kg/s and 12.3, 36.4, 60% lower than that of 0.1, 0.125, 0.15 kg/s. Ultimately, the best optimization design for air-cooling performance was case 3 with mass flow rate of 0.125 kg/s.