Delta-XE: Students build superbikes with electric drives

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Delta-XE: Students build superbikes with electric drives
Electric superbike Twente

Delta-XE: Students build superbikes with electric drives

Delta-XE: Students build superbikes with electric drives

Delta-XE: Students build superbikes with electric drives

Delta-XE: Students build superbikes with electric drives

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Delta-XE: Students build superbikes with electric drives
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As Team Electric Superbike Twente, Dutch students have put an electric superbike on its wheels.

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The Delta-XE is planned to compete in a purely electric racing series planned by the Electric Road Racing Association against other electric superbike projects worldwide.

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Bakker contributes the tubular space frame and the aluminum swing arm. The 80 kilogram battery holds 13.5 kWh of energy.

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The electric motor has 150 kW and 170 Nm of torque.

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The students developed the controls for the 800-volt drive themselves.

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The finest racing components are used everywhere.

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The Delta-XE is said to be over 300 km7h fast.

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The weight is given as 220 kilograms.

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The 200 km / h mark falls after just nine seconds.

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Now the development team is hoping to get the Delta-XE onto the racetrack as quickly as possible …

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… in order to be able to compete with other prototypes there.

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Delta-XE: Students build superbikes with electric drives

Delta-XE
Students build superbikes with electric drives

As Team Electric Superbike Twente, Dutch students have put a 200 hp electric superbike on their wheels.


Uli Baumann

06/04/2021

With the new Delta-XE, the student team at the University of Twente has already presented the fourth evolutionary stage of their electric superbike project. This has been improved in almost all parts compared to the previous model. The plan is to use the Delta-XE to compete against other electric superbike projects around the world in a purely electric racing series planned by the Electric Road Racing Association.

High quality, but conventional chassis

Visually, the Delta-XE makes a real superbike – except for the missing exhaust system. The complete electric drive technology is hidden behind a full fairing, which was adapted from a Suter MMX 500. The backbone for the Delta-XE is a steel tubular space frame, which the well-known Dutch chassis manufacturer Bakker shaped. Bakker also contributes the aluminum twin-arm swing arm. The USD fork at the front uses a cartridge system from Ohlins and stanchions made of carbon reinforced with ceramic. The TTX GP suspension strut, which is supported directly on the right swing arm, comes completely from the Ohlins shelf. Brake power is provided by HEL Performance special brake calipers milled from the solid on both wheels. Marchesini supplies the 17-inch forged aluminum front wheel, the magnesium rim at the rear comes from PVM.

200 PS strong, 300 km / h fast

So far, the Delta-XE is still quite conventional. That cannot be said of drive technology. The built-in liquid-cooled electric motor has an output of 150 PS – at least 200 PS according to the usual standards – and provides 170 Nm of torque, which is transmitted via a chain to the rear wheel with 800 Nm. For the energy storage, the team relied on a 13.5 kWh lithium polymer battery with 800 volt technology, which, however, adds 80 kilograms to the total mass. The CCS fast charger is used for charging. The students do not provide any information on range or loading times

Nevertheless, the students were able to reduce the weight of the Delta-XE to 220 kilograms. This means that the electric super bike sprints from zero to 100 km / h in under three seconds. The 200 km / h mark falls after just nine seconds. The top speed is over 300 km / h.

Now the development team hopes to get the Delta-XE onto the racetrack as quickly as possible so that it can compete with other prototypes.

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Conclusion

Dutch students have built an electric superbike. The current development stage has a whopping 200 hp and is over 300 km / h fast.

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