DESIGN OF AN
EFFICIENT AND ECONOMICAL
ELECTRIC BICYCLE

A thesis submitted by:

James Buckland Coate

Copyright 1994



VERY under construction - patience is a virtue!
(Awaiting the arrival of browsers that support HTML 3.0 Math functions.)


CONTENTS
  1. Problem Background
  2. Previous Inventions
  3. Motor Selection
  4. Battery System
  5. Frame and Components
  6. Performance Simulation
  7. Efficiency Maximization
  8. Controller Design
  9. Implementation

In Memory of Joel Reed, A'88, 1966-1987.

Readers may contact the author through the Tufts University Office of Alumni Relations at 95 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA 02155, (617)627-3526, or at jcoate@alumni.tufts.edu.


Electric Bicycle