2 Wheelers, Student projects

Designing electric bicycle for college student

Bicycles are a wonderful means of transportation that helps preserve the environment, it reduces air contamination, ecological footprints, carbon emissions, is healthy and very inexpensive. The electrical bicycle or e-bike is a traditional bicycle equipped with an electric motor to help with pedaling. They are more economical than fuel-powered cars and motorcycles, and cheaper than buying an electrical vehicle for the city. Interestingly, in the age of big-buck motor cars, electric bicycle appears to be increasingly adopted as a refreshing alternative because they have several advantages. College students uses different mode of transportation to travel within campus. The available options for transport for students are personal bicycle, bus, shared cycle, auto-rickshaw, etc. They have to travel frequently between places within there large college campus. Most convenient mode of transportation for student in many institutions was found to be personal bicycle. The vision for the project is to provide an efficient solution for mobility of college students from one place to another. The main intent is to research on the problems with existing mode of transportation and solving them to provide an efficient solution. The new design will be an options for student against expensive bicycle.

Submitted by: Roshan Kumar Sahoo, MDes (2017-19), IIT Bombay
Guided by: Prof. Sugandh Malhotra