Progetto SPEED bike

The partners

For the implementation of the Speed Bike project the City of Modena co-operates with Italian and European partners.

TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL IPSIA "A. FERRARI"

TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL IPSIA "A. FERRARI"
The technical high school "A. Ferrari" was created in 1962 by Enzo Ferrari, who believed that a company like Ferrari should have its own professional school. In 1965 the high school became a public school supplying training for skilled workers and technicians in the automotive sector.
Through the years, the different professional profiles have changed according to the employment market needs.
Since early '90s the school developed a great interest in the use of renewable and alternative energy sources.
In 1990 the Italian Ministry of Education and ENEA (National Board for Energy and Environment) signed an agreement to foster training institutes to work on energy matters. In this framework the school set up the MENTE Project (Moving with new energy technologies), which envisaged researches and studies on energy in the mobility and transport sector.
In '96 and '97 the school carried out studies on solar, hybrid and electromuscular prototypes conceived for urban traffic with low energy consumption and low environmental impact.
The school takes part in important international initiatives to test the prototypes.
In 1996 a group of students and teachers took part in the "World Solar Cycle Challenge", a 3,000 km race through the Australian desert with Pinocchio, a tricycle working with solar and muscular energy.
In 1997 another group of students and teachers crossed Asia for 4,000 km with the electric car Oxiana, in the route towards the river Oxus (at the border between Afghanistan and Uzbekistan), repeating the journey made by Robert Byron in the 30ies with cars fuelled by gas. During the journey there was a data interchange between the vehicles moving on the route and the high school in Italy thanks to a innovative equipment supplied by TELESPAZIO.
In 1998 another team participated in the Transeuropean, from Brussels to Monte-Carlo, with the new tricycle Giona.
The school co-operates with several European and international organisations in the field of mobility and innovative vehicles.

AD. EL. GROUP(http://www.adelgroup.com)
AD. EL. GROUP was created in 1986 as electronic firm. The most important branch of its activity is the planning and production of electronic equipment. Since the '90s AD. EL. GROUP is studying and developing electric vehicles as two or three wheels electric bicycles in same different configurations.
Since '95 AD. EL. GROUP had patented and produced a new type of brushless flat motor, with electromagnetic induction. Such a motor, working only with magnetic flux, can be applied to a normal bicycle in order to transform it in an electromuscular bicycle.
AD. EL. GROUP produces and sells a wide range of electric vehicles, bicycles , tricycles, scooters, minicars, golf cars, etc.
AD. EL. GROUP collaborates with different European firms for the trasformation of normal bikes in electromuscular bikes.
AD. EL. GROUP has also provided some of its motors to the technical high school "A. Ferrari", which have been tested during the journeys in Australia and Asia.

GERMAN ESLAVA (http://home.t-online.de/home/cab-bike/geros.htm)
The co. Dipl. Ing. German Eslava was original created in 1988 as consultant and import-export of bicycles. The bicycle business was activated just because of knowledge in the mechanical engineering field of sport bicycles and of the expected unusual growing potential of the market at that time. In fact after a couple of years all the activities were wholly concentrated on the bicycle business on the field of consultancy for bike-design, international production of frames, parts and components.
Due to the future oriented activities on bicycle development, part of the work has been oriented to vehicles which completely should fulfil the future needs of the users, meaning the incorporation of complete protection against all the different weather conditions during the whole year, hybrid traction e.g. human power/electric support, photovoltaic energy gains.
German Eslava has been involved in the development of future oriented bicycles for the last 10 years.
In 1998 the prototype Geros was created, which took part in the Speed Bike project.

GUY HAMESSE CAR ELEC EUROPE
Consultant and importer, with exclusive contract of electric vehicles from 5 countries (Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, France and Denmark). The electric vehicles normally commercialised are two, three and four wheels bicycles.

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