Designing and Manufacturing of a Hand-made Electric Motorcycle

In the department of Intelligent Mechanical Systems Engineering, Kochi University of Technology, the synthesis lecture has been being carried out in 3rd and 4th year grades of the undergraduate program. One project of the synthesis lecture in our laboratory is design and manufacture of a hand-made electric motorcycle. In this report, the student activity of design and manufacture for a hand-made electric motorcycle is described. In the past, the electric motorcycles by other educational organizations had been produced by replacement of gasoline-engine to electric motor and batteries as the other parts are those of purchased motorcycle. In our project, the design and manufacture for a whole motorcycle was conducted by a student himself. As well as the design, the analysis and manufacturing aspect is considered to be of great importance for mechanical engineers. As a capstone learning course in the 4th year, the student in our laboratory tried to design and manufacture of a hand -made electric motorcycle. These designing and manufacturing results are reported.