GrabCAD helped to redesign the fenders of an electric scooter Exo Neutrino by organising CrowdCAD challenge.
Exo Neutrino is a tiny electric scooter that handles like a bike, accelerates like a pocket rocket, drives you 40 miles / 60 kms in one go, and fits into the elevator. Designed with the environment in mind it’s the perfect urban companion.
The challenge was to redesign the plastic fenders on ExoBike. They were manufactured using the extrusion technique and were too fragile and not the best looking. The goal of the competition was to design and engineer new fenders using ABS plastic that will be manufactured by the common molding method. ExoBike team was not happy with the existing fenders and had been puzzled with the new design concept for a long time already. CrowdCAD was an effective and attractive way to take advantage of the power of GrabCAD's network of over 18 000 engineers and solve the design challenge without having to burden their own engineers.
ExoBike and GrabCAD teams together compiled the specification, requirements and procedures of the contest and GrabCAD announced it on July 8th. The deadline was set to 3 weeks to have enough time for the community engineers to develop the new concept.
GrabCAD engineers came up with the new designs and uploaded the files in the library. The competition encouraged engineers to try their best and exceed their skills. ExoBike team was satisfied to select the winner among 24 works and the winning engineer was given a prize chosen by ExoBike team.
ExoBike also got all results of the competition and can implement them in production later if desired.
The competition helped ExoBike to receive a selection of design solutions from which to pick the most suitable, all that in a matter of three weeks.
ExoBike took away:
- Large selection of practical solutions for the design challenge
- Unique, high quality results that are above standard concepts and exceeded expectations
- Saved time and company's own engineering resources
- Coverage in industry's media (including TechVehi and ElectricBikee)
- Great additional ideas for further product development
Read the ExoBike fender competition announcement.
Results of the challenge are available in GrabCAD library.
Read the winner announcement here.
"Exo team was positively surprised to find that in the middle of hot summer our CrowdCAD contest created so much excitement and attention. The proposed number of designs were surprisingly high and we felt that the competition entries were thought-out and really caught ExoBike''s essence. The design of the fenders has been quite a challenge for the Exo team. Thanks to the competition, the team received lots of ideas for further development. We definitely plan to implement the best entries in manufacturing. As ExoBike is constantly evolving, we plan to launch new challenge soon."
Marko Mand, Production Development Manager, ExoBike
In summary the CrowdCAD competition proved to be again ideal way to improve or redesign a part of the machine with the help of the experts in GrabCAD global network.
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