Electric superbike racing: the design and construction of a championship winning electric superbike

Wheeler, Patrick; Blissett, Jonathan; Gimeno-Fabra, Miquel

Abstract

The electric superbikes recently developed at The University of Nottingham have to be considered as a high performance vehicles, competing with its internal combustion engine driven counterparts. This paper presents the motivations for this work as well the design decisions taken to maximize performance in race conditions, along with modelling undertaken to gain an insight into the system interaction as a whole. Data recorded during races and on a rolling road are presented to validate the simulation work.

Citation

Wheeler, P., Blissett, J., & Gimeno-Fabra, M. Electric superbike racing: the design and construction of a championship winning electric superbike. Presented at 2017 7th International Conference on Power Electronics Systems and Applications (PESA 2017)

• Conference Name: 2017 7th International Conference on Power Electronics Systems and Applications (PESA 2017)
• End Date: Dec 14, 2017
• Acceptance Date: Nov 15, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Feb 1, 2018
• Publication Date: Dec 13, 2017
• Deposit Date: Jun 6, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 6, 2018
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: Torque; Motorcycles; Permanent magnet motors; Gears; Batteries; Wheels; Motor drives
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/900047
• Publisher URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8277747/
• Related Public URLs: http://perc.polyu.edu.hk/pesa2017.html
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• Contract Date: Jun 6, 2018