Battery-Pack Capacity Optimization Layout for Electric Motorbike Competition

This paper presents an experimental procedure to optimize the battery pack capacity of an electric motorbike designed to run on the MotoStudent International Competition of 2016. The optimization process has been realized by means of experimental tests, which have been carried out in a load bank testbench. This automated testing station was designed specifically to test the battery cells of the motorbike battery-pack. As a result of the optimization process the maximum difference between the highest module and the lowest module of the motorbike battery pack has been substantially reduced compared to a randomly located configuration.).