Dane.Kouttron
ATOMO: The Electric Bike Project
Long-Distance Electric Bike created from 'cruft'| 1: Project Goals | 2: Collecting Parts + Design | 3: Build Process | 4: Alternator-> 3 Phase Motor | 5. Paint | 5: Video & Test Footage! | Notes |
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| What? An
electric Car would be Sweet. I
got to play with all sorts of
electric and hybrid vehicles over @ GM last summer, but affording one
is another thing entirely. This project revolves around building an
electric bike from scratch, paying as little as possible while having a
range of 40 miles. Try finding an electric-hybrid bike that'l do 40
miles for cheap. a
friend built an electric motorcycle,
its awesome, and i needed one,
albeit less motorcycle more bike. Being able to tool @ MIT made this
all the more possible
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Teaser Images:
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| Goal | Details.. | Priority
Level (0=low,9=high) |
| Sustain
30mph
(in electric assist
mode) |
I want to get places in a moderatley fast manner | 9 |
| Being legal to drive | The transport should be legal enough so that i don't get recursively ticketed | 1 |
| charge
in less than 3 hours |
and have the charger on the cycle (portable) | 8 |
| Have a 1950's asthetic | I had the privledge of watching some friends play Fallout3, and i really liked the postnuclear asthetic. I wanted to find a way of shoving it into this project. | 5 |
| Sturdy Mechanical Stuff | if the cycle is going to travel 40 miles, it should actually do so without requiring constant maintainance | 9 |
| MAKE IT FROM MANCHESTER TO CAMBRIDGE | make it from my place of internship (NH) to Cambridge (MITERS). Without myself or the cycle dying (at a 40:60 ratio of biking to electric power riding) | 9 |
| Make
a small radioisotope based power supply for battery maintainance. (Beta
source based) |
Unfortunatley its very difficult to actually have a licence to do this, so i ended up having to abandon adding it to the cycle. Prototype reactors were built but not tested, due to lack of fuels | x |
The
Real Goals
Being
Moderatley Different| Cambridge
Mass (MIT) is an exciting place on weekends, Manchester... not so much.
This is basically so i can get there without burning 20 bucks in
fuel every time
i visit. its an hours drive and traffic sucks in boston, not
to
mention that people there are insane drivers TLDR, there's nerdy folks @ MIT to rock out with. |
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| Electric
Bikes arent new. DIY folks
have been at this since 1895 (First electric trycycle). What I wanted was something that could travel a moderate distance (30 miles), and have 'safe' failure modes. If a motorcycle drive train fails, you cant pedal it home. Same with most mopeds. With this you can. You can not only pedal it back, but in a motor failure case, you could remove the massive batteries, hide them somewhere, cycle home, pick up the pack later on. moreover, while your cycling, your not driving a motor constantly, your only propelling the vehicle. Way less mechanical drag = better ease of use, less wear |
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Dane.Kouttron
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Electrical & Electrical Power
631.978.1650
