MAMMOTH E-BIKE
TEAM MEMBERS: JULIAN CUNNINGHAM, CHELSEA YANG, AND JOSHUA WANG
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, 2024
Our goal for this project was to design and build a model of a potential new concept for an e-bike from edison, a local bike company and sponor of the project.
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In my experience as a park ranger, I'd noted the lack of low-haul-volume, pedestrian-friendly, and environmentally concious solutions in the market for maintenance vehicles. Our team pursued this idea further: we followed georgia tech's utility vehicles around campus, and learned that 96% of trips only had one person in the vehicle, and 77% of vehicles had either zero or very few items in their cargo beds.
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From this research, we set out to build the mammoth e-bike: the very first utility vehicle designed for the promotion and conservation of urban greenspaces.
Our process began with the research outlined above. After loose sketching and ideation, we played with a few potential alternatives regarding vehicle payload location and rider interaction, settling on a final concept which I illustrated. Our team then began the process of cad modeling, rendering, and eventually building a full scale model. Here, I helped develop the visual language in renders and spent time in the shop sanding, painting, and assembling a full-scale visual model.
