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General Discussion / Starting electric motorcycle project, need all the help we can get! thanks!
« on: October 02, 2011, 04:01:53 AM »
Hello, My peer and I are Industrial Design students at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and have taken on the ambitious project of building an Electric motorcycle. We found your forum and are very impressed with the knowledge base you guys seem to have on the subject.
We are starting with a yamaha 1990 yamaha FZR frame. We have access to a very nice machine shop, vacuum forming, FDM rapid prototyping and a 3 Axis CNC machine (depending on how much funding we can get)
We are going to create a prototype bike using the FZR frame and custom fabricating most everything else.
Ideally we are hoping this prototype could achieve speeds up to 70 MPH with a range of 25 miles.
Although a lot of the project will be based on the aesthetics and ergonomics of the EV We also need it to be functional.
So that being said, What are our options?
Lead acid verse lithium?
AC verse DC motor?
IS regen worth it?
What kind of controller is best.
Is belt drive worth it? (if we could CNC the sprockets from a cad file)
are there any up to date books on the subject worth buying?
Any help is greatly appreciated and we will keep the forum up to date on our progress!
Thanks in advance!
We are starting with a yamaha 1990 yamaha FZR frame. We have access to a very nice machine shop, vacuum forming, FDM rapid prototyping and a 3 Axis CNC machine (depending on how much funding we can get)
We are going to create a prototype bike using the FZR frame and custom fabricating most everything else.
Ideally we are hoping this prototype could achieve speeds up to 70 MPH with a range of 25 miles.
Although a lot of the project will be based on the aesthetics and ergonomics of the EV We also need it to be functional.
So that being said, What are our options?
Lead acid verse lithium?
AC verse DC motor?
IS regen worth it?
What kind of controller is best.
Is belt drive worth it? (if we could CNC the sprockets from a cad file)
are there any up to date books on the subject worth buying?
Any help is greatly appreciated and we will keep the forum up to date on our progress!
Thanks in advance!