Team Ethos
一致団結 - solidarity, banding together and working as one for a common cause
一心不乱 - wholeheartedly, with heart and soul, intently, with undivided attention, with intense concentration, single-mindedly
不眠不休 - without sleep or rest, day and night
The electric scooter is not a new concept. Electric scooters serve many purposes such as a mode of transportation, to make a living, or just simply as recreational purposes, but it can be expensive for the consumer. We want to create a system that not only is beneficial to the environment, but to the consumer by being less expensive than the ones that already exist in the market. To find a scooter with similar capabilities to our design, costs could easily exceed a thousand dollars. Our electric scooter will run on electric power by activating a direct drive hub motor that will facilitate the scooter’s acceleration. It will also have the ability of self-charging. The scooter will have a motor on the rear wheel, a battery with a regenerative braking system as well as a wall charger, a LCD display, as and added safety feature several tilt sensors will be used to determine when the scooter is on it is side and to prevent the activation of the motor, the speed controller will support regenerative braking and will switch the motor to this mode given user input, and lastly several light sensors will be used for automation of the scooter’s lights. The feature of the self-charging comes from the regenerative brake. To be realistic, the regenerative braking is not to fully charge the battery, its primary function is to provide a longer life cycle for the battery and to provide some charge when an outlet is not available. The regenerative brake will convert some of the kinetic energy into useful energy to supply it back to the power source.
