Project
'OSOLEBIKE - New generation of electric pedal-assisted cycles and tricycles
Funding origin:
Italy
STRIA Roadmaps:
Transport electrification (ELT)
Smart mobility and services (SMO)
Transport mode:
Road
Transport sectors:
Passenger transport
Micromobility
Active mobility
Project website:
Duration:
Start date: 01/05/2012,
End date: 01/09/2015
Status: Finished
Funding details:
Overview
Background & policy context:
The project focused on the development and implementation of innovative electric pedal-assisted (pedelec) bicycles and tricycles to be integrated in bike sharing schemes. The introduction of pedelec tricycles can in fact improve accessibility of bike sharing systems to different user categories such as elderly, people with minor physical disabilities and parents carrying children. The diffusion of pedelec tricycles can also contribute to the improvement of security aspects related to their daily usage in urban areas.
Objectives:
The project aimed at achieving the following objectives:
- improvement of technology-related aspects of current electric pedal-assisted bicycles;
- implementation, at prototype level, of light shelter protection covered with solar panels improving bike usage in the case of light rain, as well as to increase battery autonomy and reduce recharge time;
- testing of a particular drive change to manage electrically assisted wheels in order to provide kinetic energy to more easily overcome steep gradients while limiting the maximum speed to 25 km/h.
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