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1.5+ MILLION TRICYCLES
WHAT IS THE ISSUE?
Tricycles emit over around 5 tons per unit per year= 7.5
million tons of CO2 emissions
LEV’s
E-Bikes
300
225
150
75
0
ElectricBicycle E-Bike E-Tricycle LEVGolfcart HybridCar Tesla E-Bus
AIRPLANES
No commercial examples
Globally accepted
Netherlands 1/3 of all money spent on bikes is for electric. Germany, France and
Italy closely follow
India had almost NO e-bikes until 2 years ago but will eclipse all of Europe
within one year!
Personal Electric Transport is the current electric vehicle success story world
wide. Far ahead of Car’s and Heavy vehicle applications
Low weight human-hybrid and light electric vehicles (LEV’s) exist today and are
an integral part of most developed nations
From electric bicycles to golf carts, boats, fork lifts, motorcycles and more
EXAMPLES OF ELECTRIC
VEHICLES USING PRESCRIBED
COMPONENTS
TRICYCLE CONVERSION
COMPONENTS
Controller Motor
Throttle
Cable Battery
Charger
TRICYCLE FUEL
CONSUMPTION
Tricycle Daily Fuel Consumption: approx. 7 litres per day
Annually Tricycles may use 2.7 tWh = $547 Million that can be
supplied via partially renewable sources that compliment other
ADB and renewable energy projects.
Current gasoline fuel costs are $2500 per year per tricycle.
Note: Gasoline will go up, Battery prices will reduce.
Cable Battery
Charger
PROCESS MAP - OVERVIEW
Bulk tricycle
4 1000
Implementation
Feb-July 2011
April 20-27 Order Components for 1st trike Battery, Motor, Controller, Cables, SD EVS and Supplier
Throttle,
Selection of engineering and service support people of Qualify people and organisations that
April/May can provide engineering and electrical SMEC
organisations, Charging station/location and logistics
engineering support
Component Component Testing In Australian arrival,
Bench Testing and labelling of
May/June Note Some components such as batteries may have SD EVS and Supplier
components
long lead time up to 60days
Remover all petrol motor related parts
First Tricycle deconstruction SD and SMEC and local
May/June from the selected Tricycle
and Motor and controller installation service support
Prepare tricycle and install motor
May 21-23 Attend ADB Sustainable Transport Forum presentation Present our plan for tricycles at this SD and SMEC
forum
June July Ship tested components to SMEC/ADB SD to attend the first installation on SD EVS and Supplier
tricycle
Comprehensive feedback on SD and SMEC and local
July/August 1st in field test runs and usage procedures
component performance service support
Critically analyse performance of
Adjustments to spec based on infield testing and trials Tricycle and make recommended SD and SMEC and local
August/September
if required component,process, or configuration service support
recommendations
2
Selection of components based on
September Order Components for 2nd Phase of 5 trikes SD EVS and Supplier
infield testing of Phase 1 Trike
EVS team and consultant (Scott Dickason) time and cost in Australia and travel on
Project etc.