Eco Factor: Self-sufficient electric motorcycle generates renewable energy.
The idea behind electric vehicles is definitely debatable. Though, electric vehicles don’t emit any toxic fumes from their tailpipes, generating electricity using conventional ways does pollute the ecosystem. Aiming to design a truly green vehicle, industrial designers have often come up with concepts that generate renewable energy. Most of these concepts either generate kinetic energy or use the sun as an energy source. Vehicle designer Augustin Barbot is taking the idea ahead by designing a motorcycle that harvests not one, but four different forms of renewable energies.
Dubbed The Open EWOL or Energy Way of Life, the concept motorcycle has to be driven by a rider who wears a next-gen energy suit that can generate up to 1KW of power using body heat and movement. The shock absorbers that lie under the sea generate 20W, the steering generates up to 5W, the rear wheel generates 50W, onboard solar cells generate up to 400W, pedaling generates an addition 200W and kinetic tires collect up to 20W of power.
Moreover, the EWOL features an HPA (Hydraulic Power Assist) tank that saves up to 80 percent of the deceleration energy and braking wind turbines that produce 10W of clean electrical power. All that energy generated by various renewable energy generators is fed to the motorcycle’s onboard battery pack that then provides 2KW of power to the electric engine and 1.6KW of power to the digital display. The self-sufficient motorcycle is for the streets of the future where vehicles powered by renewable energy would revolutionize the world.
Via: YankoDesign
