(old now, but gold still) Dive into the groundbreaking journey of innovation and sustainability within our time in the MIT x Adidas Incubator team.
In this video, we unveil the creation of a flywheel e-bike prototype capable of charging seven iPhones in just 60 seconds.
From the drawing board to the investor pitch, discover how our team of four visionaries, including myself leading market research, business strategy, and marketing efforts, engineered a sustainable solution that captured the attention of the renewable energy industry within the UK.
Witness our path to placing 3rd in the prestigious OVO Industry’s Renewables Competition, showcasing our commitment to pushing the boundaries of technology and sustainability.
This was an extraordinary adventure that merges the worlds of academia, industry-leading brands, and sustainable innovation.
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You can see how quickly it is taken to charge up the flywheel to put this into perspective the energy stored within this flly wheel is equivalent to around seven full ion X batteries now that the fly wheel is fully charged I can demonstrate how the energy stored in the fly wheel can be
Used to control the spin of the wheel itself Thank you hello we are the flywheel ebike group and we’re here today because we believe we can revolutionize the ebike industry electric bicycles or ebikes are big in the UK in 2015 they made up 5% of the UK’s cycle market and 12% just a year later however there are some problems
Associated with ebikes currently the first of which being they are very heavy it’s not uncommon for an ebike to weigh upwards of 20 kg secondly they take an infamously long time to charge anywhere between 2 and 7 hours for a full battery is standard thirdly they are pricey they can cost upwards of
£4,000 we’ve used flywheel Battery Technology to create a simple clear solution in the form of an electric bicycle wheel to solve all of these problems but before before we get into that who are we good afternoon my name is James Smith and I’m a student of mechanical engineering at this wonderful
University over my lifespan I have had two years worth of experience as a bike mechanic at a bike shop back in Germany where I live but previous to that I actually built two of my own bikes one of which you can see in the photo there
Hi there I’m T Crook and I’m an international business student I work for delivery so have quite a clear interest in bikes and I’ve also been published in the business review articles my name is n I’m also doing mechanical engineering and in my spare time I’m on the University’s formula
Student team here you can see our car was displayed in the RAC good afternoon my name is m i come from Romania I’m an international business student as well as T I love sports and I’m into protecting the environment this now leads me perfectly into talking about what it is exactly
That we’ve created and how what we’ve created can solve the problems of the existing products on the market so what it is that we’ve created is a solution to the ebike a product that allows you to Electrify any bike within a matter of minutes you just Mount the wheel on the
Bike companies like switch and urbanex which run off batteries show the demand for this type of product having raised over half a million dollars each on crowdfunding campaigns but our product has more benefits than an ordinary ebike as it is fundamentally different our system runs off of a flywheel as you can
See in this next Elation this one using a flywheel provides a variety of benefits it can be fully charged within a matter of minutes or even seconds rather than hours the spinning Mass also provides for gyroscopic stability which provides a much more stable ride providing um or greatly
Reducing the risk of falling off the bike due to the inventiveness of our design we have looked into patenting the concept with the help of a friend of mine who used to be a patent researcher at the European patent office um I have looked through around 400 patn in
Relevant categories and not found any that are significantly similar we are also currently waiting on the British library in London to get back to us with a patent search that they offer following the green light from that search we would want to invest in hiring a patent lawyer to draw up an
Application for us during our idea during our time on the idea program we were able to create a proof of concept which is what you can see here the animations that you’ve seen on the screen strips the final product down layer by layer first having removed the flywheel casing the purple thing that
You saw earlier revealing the flywheel as you see here the next animation removes the outer tire the rim and the spokes revealing essentially what you see here in front of you this C of concept is representative of our final product visualization the small metal disc here is representative of the large red
Flywheel on the screen at the center of the motor here is the STA this is represented by the more copper colored ring to towards the center um so if you this this part is attached to the hub of the wheel so if you see this part move at any time
During the demonstration imagine the entire wheel turning in the final product the electronics would be mounted inside the wheel however for the proof of concept it was easiest to have the mounted externally on the market side the current uh active travel UK to the UK Market is at 14
Billion the cycling use in UK is also increasing in 1996 there were 10,000 people going into Central London by 2015 there were 39,000 of them also the government is helping this industry they subsidizing help to other associations like cycling UK where they give 1 million pounds currently in investment
Funds for the social marketing campaign called Big Bike Revival they also have their own project like NHS new healthy towns or Ps for communities and let’s not forget about their old cycling to scheme where in 2014 there was a record of around 200,000 people employees participating in this scheme as a
Taxfree benefit as a segment we’ve chosen an un customer profile to be employees um there are around 1 million around UK who who can cycle to work given the pric of a product of £1,000 the economic benefit to Gast ratio is 13 to1 as an average
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Very curious to see more about this project and any other upcoming from you!