nexgen-3d-printing / ebike

DIY EBike Battery System

The main objective of this engineering project was to design a mount that allows a DIY E-bike to receive power from a commercial power tool battery. More specifically, we designed the mount to accept the RYOBI 40-Volt lithium-ion high-capacity battery. The intentions for this scope of design are as follows:

• Employ the economies of scale that are soon to come for lithium-ion batteries
• Take advantage of the safety features already incorporated in the battery
• Provide a battery solution for an E-bike that is easy to source and replace

Included in this repository is:

• A slide deck containing our written documentation on the project
• The Fusion 360 files of our part and the associated components
• The .stl files of our part for 3D printing

Our how-to video can be found here.

Authors & Contributors

This project was conducted as part of the Spring 2021 XProject cohort. The XProjects are administered by the Innovation, Design, and Entrepreneurship Department at the Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh.

• Maya Roman – Junior ME Student

• Peter DeNicola – Junior ME Student

• John Rozzo – Sophomore EE Student

• Nick Bohn – Senior ME Student

• Stephen Spencer – Project Sponsor

• Brandon Barber – Project Coordinator

• Daniel Yates – Project Coordinator

• Dr. William Clark – Project Coordinator

• Thick Bikes (Pittsburgh, PA) – Bike Donor

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.