Evaluation of Center Gravity and Turning Radius Performance of E-Trike: an Analytical Parametric Study
Rakshidatu Lestaluhu(a), Samuel Rahardian(a), Faizal Arifurrahman(a), Arif Sugiharto(a), Bentang Arief Budiman(b*)

(a) Faculty of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Ganesha Street No. 10, Bandung, 40132, Indonesia
(b) National Center for Sustainable Transportation Technology, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
*Email:bentang[at]ftmd.itb.ac.id

Abstract

Valley topography city needs to have a serious effort to maintain issues due to vehicle exhaust gas results. A solution that may be considered as replacement of the existing delivery vehicle to E-Trike or Electrical three-wheeled vehicle (TWV). In this paper analytical parametric evaluated from moment and force (static and dynamic) applied to the system. During the design process, E-Trike’s stability and maneuverability being important aspects to be considered and become safety concerns while being ride compare with the two-wheel and four-wheel vehicles. Both aspects were affected by the vehicle center of gravity, and turning radius thus will be discussed further in this paper. There are three parameters discussed in this paper (1) Prototype Dimensional Review (2) Center of Gravity (3) Turning Radius. The focus of this paper to get maximum velocity to safe riding and handling the E-Trike prototype as the initial study before commercialization purposes. Besides, the evaluation also aims to provide improvement aspects on the prototype to be considered in future design.

Keywords: E-Trike, Stability, Center Gravity, Turning Radius

Topic: Mechanical Engineering