Title: Hybrid motorcycles: state-of-the-art and research challenges of mechanical issues

Authors: Laura M. Moreno-Durango; Luis Felipe Quesada-Bedoya; Gilberto Osorio-Gómez; Jorge Córdoba-Morales

Addresses: Design Engineering Research Group (GRID), EAFIT University, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia ' Design Engineering Research Group (GRID), EAFIT University, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia ' Design Engineering Research Group (GRID), EAFIT University, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia ' Mechanical Engineering Department, EIA University, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia

Abstract: In this article you will find a bibliographic review on the hybridisation processes in motorcycles. For this purpose, a search was made in the databases that deal with topics on energy, engineering, sustainable development, applied mechanics, among others. First, the evolution and importance of the motorcycle over time and at present is described; and as this is directly related to pollution and gas generation in the atmosphere, with this it is specified the opportunity to generate a change in this means of transport and what this would represent for the research and for the world. Then the different configurations implemented in the vehicles are defined that allow to make changes in order to carry out a hybridisation process and to achieve a decrease of these aggravating factors, later the developments and researches carried out in the world on the hybridisation processes are analysed, and finally a collection of prototypes found in the bibliographic review is presented.

Keywords: hybrid motorcycles; topologies; powertrain; prototypes.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEHV.2024.138990

International Journal of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles, 2024 Vol.16 No.2, pp.136 - 157

Received: 19 Feb 2023
Accepted: 02 Apr 2023
Published online: 06 Jun 2024 *

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