Development Of Elecrtic Conversion Kit For Motorcycle

  • Geetanjali Parmar, Rupali Sandbhor, A.M. Saipranav Uppuluri, Prof. Rupali Sewane, Prof. Ashish Dharme

Abstract

Electric vehicles first appeared in mid-19th century. An EV held the vehicular land speed record until around 1900. The high cost, low top speed and short range of battery powered EVs, later compared to IC engine vehicles led to a worldwide decline in their use. In the 21st century owing to environmental problems created by IC engine vehicles resulted in piqued interest in electric vehicles and other alternative fuel vehicles once again. Our paper focuses on making an electric conversion kit for the already existing IC engine motorcycles and keeping the manual transmission intact. The engine-gearbox assembly is replaced by electric motor-gearbox assembly. And a mechanism is designed in order to connect the driving motor to gearbox. Later on, the power is transferred to rear wheel of the vehicle using chain sprocket arrangement. Power which was obtained by burning of fuel (petrol), is replaced by Lithium ion battery. The assembly is done in such a way that the dimensions of modified vehicle should not look different than the original. The final modified motorcycle should give equal performance as the IC engine motorcycle.

Published
2020-07-01