Bolt Motorbike Senior Design Project
Engineering
Jack Baskin School of Engineering
Bolt Motorbikes is a Bay Area start-up company co-founded by team member Zachary Levenberg in 2014. The existing Bolt Motorbikes team has created a completely electrical, yet street legal, Bolt M1 Motorbike. The goal of Bolt motorbikes is to create an energy efficient, stylish and environmentally conscious alternative form of urban transportation. By blending a bicycle with the look and feel of a motorcycle, the Bolt M1 Motorbike is changing transportation as we know it. In order to make the Bolt M1 a scalable transportation solution, the internals of the Bolt Motorbike needs to be retrofitted in order to optimize cost, manufacturability and engineering design. Team Bolt at UCSC has been asked to recreate the internal systems of the existing bike and to deliver electrical, connectivity and sensor solutions for the second major revision of the bike to be manufactured in late 2016. Team Bolt at UCSC will focus on redoing the electrical and battery management system, sensor network and controller framework while adding Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity. The following mid-project report describes our engineering design procedures and technical discoveries for the midpoint of the project, as well as plans moving forward.
