Elisava Racing Team

Elisava Racing Team is a global engineering and design project that was born in 2018 to offer students the opportunity to work on a real project, where they can develop their skills to the maximum and enter a promising sector of the professional world, such as electric mobility.

Motivation and passion for innovation and technology are the reasons why ERT was born and continues to exist, and this has been and continues to be possible thanks to the collaboration of the university with companies, industry professionals and sponsors.

Project led by Marta Janeras as part of the Mention in Development and Simulation of the Bachelor in Industrial Design Engineering.

Hexia One is the result of the Final Degree Project of Elisava Racing Team 7.0, made up of 10 students from the Bachelor in Industrial Design Engineering, developed during the 2024-2025 academic year. It is a high-performance electric urban maxi-scooter, designed around Stark Future’s powerful Power Train, adapted for urban use.

This project was born with a clear purpose: to democratize maxi-scooters. The team detected a gender bias in the sector and decided to take action: Hexia One is an inclusive, ergonomic, and attractive response, designed for audiences often overlooked in the traditional market.

Hexia One has been designed as a manifesto of technological innovation, pushing additive manufacturing to its limits. With a pioneering approach, we have explored how this technology can redefine criteria of weight, strength, formal freedom, and aesthetics.

The chassis, conceived as a modular platform, combines a traditionally manufactured front section with a central section printed in titanium using SLM, with a thickness of only 0.8 mm and a total weight of 5.5 kg. This platform model, common in the automotive world but not in the motorcycle world, opens the door to multiple configurations with a single structural base.

The subframe, a hybrid of traditional tubes and printed parts, contributes to weight reduction and allows for aesthetic shapes that would be impossible with conventional processes. It is optimized to support suspension and user loads.

To adapt Stark Future’s off-road engine for urban use, a completely new, lightweight, and functional transmission and swingarm assembly has been developed. It incorporates FDM and MJF printed parts such as the rear fenders, chain guard, and license plate holder, maintaining a high-quality aesthetic finish.

Another key element is the radiator, manufactured using SLM with a gyroid lattice structure. This shape—almost impossible to achieve with conventional techniques—optimizes heat dissipation and minimizes the volume occupied, demonstrating the potential of additive manufacturing to solve functional challenges with design.

Storage, often a pending issue in this segment, is solved with an almost unprecedented proposal: two separate areas with capacity for two full-face helmets, one at the front and one at the rear. The SLS-printed trunks make full use of the available space without compromising aesthetics or ergonomics.

Ergonomics has been central to the development of Hexia. The split seat facilitates comfort while driving and functionality when stationary: the rear section, which covers the rear trunk, opens backwards without the need to move. The seat bases, manufactured in FDM and reinforced with Markforged carbon fiber, ensure structural strength with minimal weight.

The SLS-printed plastics of the fairing and cockpit have been designed based on the proportions of the average female audience, adding invisible structural ribs and optimizing surfaces to achieve smooth, elegant, and premium shapes. This commitment to organic and inclusive design contrasts with the aggressive aesthetics typical of maxi-scooters on the market.

The fenders and windshield have also been developed using FDM and SLS technologies, optimized for vibration resistance, intuitive assembly, and customization possibilities, enhancing the end-user experience.

The lighting assembly defines Hexia’s visual character. The front light, shaped like the logo and with integrated turn signals, gives it its own recognizable identity, while the rear light combines functionality (brake light) with a distinctive ribbed design, reinforcing the vehicle’s premium look. Weighing just 150 kg dry, Hexia One is the lightest electric maxi-scooter on the market, the result of a unique combination of engineering, design, and technology. A complete, coherent project with a promising future.

With Hexia One, Elisava Racing Team 7.0 proves that it is possible to make a motorcycle that is more inclusive, more innovative, and deeply designed for people. It breaks gender barriers, challenges technological limits, and opens new avenues for urban mobility design.

This project has been made possible thanks to the commitment of the sponsors, who have contributed to bringing to life a proposal that transforms the way we understand maxi-scooters. Hexia is not just a motorcycle: it is a vision of the future built with talent, commitment, and passion.

Students:
Hugo Rivera, Estela Sánchez, Pablo Gallardo, Juan García, Martí Catá, Julia Naya, Abril Alsina, Jorge Ibañez, Santiago Solé, Mariona Jiménez

Supervised by:
Marta Janeras, Pau Romagosa, Alberto Sosa, Joel Benetti, Miquel Tejero, Oriol Bertomeu

Stark Future /  Pantur / IAM3DHUB / Leitat / Arrk / HP / Aribell / A-Mida Protos /  PDSVision / Altair / IBO Group  /  Bybre / J. Juan / Shad /  ARaymond /   Puig Hi-Tech Parts / Bambu Lab / Trumpf / Farsoon Technologies / Addival / Addzed / R16V suspension / Fanuc / m4p / ASDT / nTop /  Böllhoff / Laser Goded / Benetti Factory / EJOT 

The already consolidated ELISAVA Engineering Lab of this edition consisted of four different teams:

1. ‘Unbound’ is a modular design of running shoes that allows for the customization and replacement of components according to the specific needs of each runner and terrain. Through the use of additive manufacturing, Lattice structures and 3D knitting, it seeks to improve the fit, comfort and durability of the shoes.
2. ‘Roller field hockey goalies’ are protections for roller hockey goalkeepers using simulation tools to adapt to the physical characteristics of each player, achieving a more precise fit and greater protection.
3. ‘Addpad’ is the first modular and customizable padel racket on the market that is committed to sustainability, thanks to the properties of Lattice structures and additive manufacturing technologies.

Students:
María Fernández, Gerard Cabezas, Alícia Roca

Mentored by:
Marta Janeras, Oriol Bertomeu

Project in collaboration with IAM3DHUB & LEITAT, Addival, AsorCAD, nTop, Altair.

NEM is an autonomous personal mobility vehicle that offers an efficient solution for city commuting. Equipped with ADAS technology, NEM moves completely autonomously on bike lanes, ensuring the safety of the user and the environment. After completing the journey, the vehicle automatically returns to the induction charging station, ready for its next use.

Students:
Elisabet Albinyana, Albert Vañó, Natalia Ayuso, Lia Páramo, Carla Sallés, Sara Maristany

Mentored by:
Miquel Tejero, Pau Romagosa, Joel Benetti

Project in collaboration with Arrk, Pantur, Rotpar, Aribell, Hydro, HP.

1. Actuator for efficient frameless vehicle mirrors, allowing a wide range of movement and precision of horizontal and vertical adjustment.
2. Development of a camera monitoring system, which replaces the exterior mirrors with mirrors by cameras to eliminate blind spots, offering a clearer panoramic view.

Students:
Marina Tonico, Anna Garrido

Mentored by:
Marta Janeras, Oriol Bertomeu

1. Optimization and redesign of three variants of Triple Clamps for the KTM Duke 990 motorcycle. Development of a new design methodology based on simulation and generative design, using parametric software. The objective is to ensure the optimization and resistance of the parts, to apply an innovative and organic aesthetic.
2. Fall protection with an integrated textile and semi-rigid storage system.

Students:
Clàudia Clavé, Pol Balada

Mentored by:
Albert Sosa

‘A better way’ is a project to evaluate the design and manufacturing process of Ficosa-Taicang products and thus reduce and optimize the cost of development. Within this framework, the design and development process for the manufacture of housing brackets for future frameless vehicle mirrors has been optimized, focusing on two aspects:

1. Design of a single housing bracket for the two frameless projects received by Ficosa, common to all future projects of this type designed by the company, thus implementing a new, more efficient and effective design methodology.
2. Optimization of the plastic injection cycle of the housing bracket, considering the factors that influence the cooling time, with tools such as the conformal cooling technique.

Students:
Alexandre Martín, Maria Gómez

Mentored by:
Marta Janeras, Oriol Bertomeu

The team was commissioned by Stark Future to design a supercharger for their Stark Varg electric motorcycle. The result was a charging station for motocross motorcycles that offers a revolutionary and exciting experience for riders, providing faster service, special features and an exceptional community environment. All of this while combining sustainability, convenience and superior performance.

Students:
Kike Luria, Araceli Morand, Guille Pérez, Esteve Vilaseca, Martí Jiménez, Nacho Farré, Bernat Llanas

Mentored by:
Pau Romagosa, Albert Sosa, Miquel Tejero

Lattice structures are ultra-complex structures formed by repeating unit cells with a specific pattern. They have several optimal properties such as the ability to optimize material and lighten any part. In addition, they are fully customizable structures to achieve the desired properties.

‘ERT – Lattices’ decided to incorporate to the team a new set of products that follow the line of innovation of recent years: advanced protections for the riders of the motorcycles manufactured by the team. These products stand out for their differential value thanks to additive manufacturing, which allows to obtain directly a final product with advanced technical characteristics.

In this way, ‘Dayna Shields’ seeks to revolutionize the world of motocross with an innovative off-road helmet and armor that adapt perfectly to the shape of the rider’s head and body. This breakthrough takes technology to a new level by incorporating Lattice structures, which offer exceptional strength without sacrificing the flexibility needed to ensure a perfect fit. In the event of an impact, these structures distribute force efficiently, significantly minimizing the risk of injury.

Students:
Oriol Moreu, Marc Sospedra

Mentored by:
Marta Janeras, Oriol Bertomeu

Project in collaboration with IAM3DHUB & LEITAT, Arrk, nTop, Altair.

The fourth edition of Elisava Racing Team has given rise to Elisava’s first innovation laboratory for electric mobility. And as a result has created ‘Onux’, a battery exchange and self-maintenance system for motosharing.

Located in 2030, eight students of the Bachelor in Industrial Design Engineering developed ‘Onux’, a battery swapping system that boosts the self-maintenance of sharing motorcycles.

‘Onux’ is the link between the network of users and battery charging management, with the former being responsible for the movement and recharging of each of the vehicles, thus eliminating the impact of the operators who currently perform this task. To this end, a charging station has been designed that works in parallel with a digital system that manages the user network, the swappers. The charging station consists of two differential parts: the charging rack (modular and stackable) and the universal battery, composed of the union of cells and supercapacitors, this improves its performance and therefore has a longer life. The main feature of this battery is its recyclability thanks to an innovative union of cells without welding and a distribution of components that helps the assembly and disassembly of these.

In addition, this is a comprehensive project that includes market research, business opportunities and their development, and the design and implementation of each of the physical and digital components of the project.

Students:
Mar Tarrazona, Sara Mues, Quim Gutiérrez, Ricardo Horno, Guillermo García, Muna Abdul, Sandra Canals, Alex Amat

Mentored by:
Marta Janeras, Pau Romagosa, Albert Sosa, Miquel Tejero

Project in collaboration with Arrk, Aribell, BCN3D, IAM3DHUB & LEITAT, Böllhof.

The challenge of this year was to continue developing ‘Dayna’, the motorcycle of the previous edition, taking it a step further with ‘Dayna EVO’, the first rescue and assistance service in sporting events that combines a 100% electric all-terrain motorcycle, an IoT connection and a medical service capable of reaching wherever it is needed.

The main objectives have been to maximize safety and comfort to professionalize a sector on the rise and to transform medical actions in the mountains into a more environmentally friendly activity.

To achieve these improvements, a research and development laboratory has been set up, working with leading companies in the sector that have offered their technology so that the students could make the most of it, thus turning ‘Dayna EVO’ into a technological showcase. Thanks to this collaboration, the vehicle integrates cutting-edge components such as the subframe, manufactured by 3D printing in aluminum, and the swingarm, optimized to reduce the vehicle’s weight and improve its structural rigidity. In addition, the handlebars are made of carbon fiber and integrate the stem, allowing for a reduction in both weight and number of parts.

Team:
Ferran Santos, Miquel Comas, Francesc Blanquet, David Valls, Mateu Tur, Álex Garcia, Alejandro Fernández, Guille Cortijo

Mentored by:
Marta Janeras, Pau Romagosa, Albert Sosa, Joan Gómez, Miguel Tejero

Project in collaboration with Fanuc, Trumpf, Arrk, Prometal 3D, Leitat, IAM 3D Hub, PTC, Altair, Aribell, BCN3D, Rieju, Torrot, Gas Gas, Ollé, Morad, Galfer, J. Juan, Hebo, Verot, Tallers Fontanet, Tecniprotos, AFV Inicia, Rotpar, Dinamica, ASORCAD, SEVTRONIC, Ducar, Clari’s, Ibiza CAD-CAM, Igus, SKF, Böllhoff, CIFO Sant Feliu, Carnisseries Blanquet, Can Partit, EDM Jesús, DIGIFAB, Cero, IBO, Enginyers BCN, Astilla Estudio, Benetti Factory, Aguilera’s Motorcycles.

In the second year, students worked on the design, development and manufacture of an electric off-road rescue motorcycle to maximize safety and efficiency in mountain sporting events.

‘Dayna’ is the first rescue and assistance service for sporting events that combines a 100% electric off-road motorcycle, an IoT connection, blind spot and proximity sensors, additive printing, GPS, Bluetooth and a medical service capable of reaching wherever it is needed.

This project was defined thanks to the collaboration with the Emergency Medical Service (SEM), the Rescue and Special Actions Group (GRAE), engineers of Self-Protection Plans and world-renowned racers.

Students:
Ferran Algueró, Sara Alberch, Marta Torrecilla, Marçal Alcober, Anna Iglesias, Ramon Pujolar, Oriol Sentelles, Luis Medrano, Pau Jiménez, Ignasi de Nolla, Jacobo Mateos

Mentored by:
Marta Janeras, Pau Romagosa, Albert Sosa, Joan Gómez, Miguel Tejero, Francesc Ribot

Project in collaboration with HP, Ollé, Gas Gas, Torrot, Tallers Fontanet, Aribell, BCN 3D, Arrk, Sicnova, Tecniprotos, Codicad, Roptar, Dinamica, Sevtronic, Xtrim, Cero, Ibo, Addition, Ptc, Altair, AsorCad, Hebo, Morad, Afv Inicia, J.Juan, Galfer, Motos Princep, Rieju, Roccos Ranch, SKF, Böllhoff, Igus, Enginyers Bcn, Energus, RS, Albufera, Integral i Radikal Enduro.

The team that formed the first edition of the Elisava Racing Team project focused on designing and manufacturing a 100% off-road electric motorcycle, which main features are customization, connectivity and safety. They achieved all this by implementing a series of processes and technologies typical of the industry 4.0.

The initiative arose in June 2018, when three students proposed the project to Elisava. From there, a team was formed and organized as a small engineering start-up. Starting with a blank sheet of paper, the team managed to develop a working prototype in just nine months.

This project participated in the Barcelona Smart Moto Challenge, an international competition in which university proposals for electric motorcycles are evaluated based on their functionality, design and associated business plan. ‘Eray’ won five awards (two first prizes for best battery pack and best smart system, and three second prizes for dynamic events, satic events and overall position in category A).

Team:
Aina Torrandell, Jordi Batlló, Jose Javier Luna, Joan Maturana, Robert Cabañero, Joel Benetti, Miquel Sirvent, Oscar Rodríguez, Marco Corberi, Victor Vidal, Nil Carrillo, Andrea Preciado

Mentored by:
Marta Janeras, Pau Romagosa, Albert Sosa, Joan Gómez, Francesc Ribot

Project in collaboration with Rieju, Ollé, SKF, Altair, HO, Albufera, Integral, PTC, Benseny, FR Moto, Addit·ion Motocard, Centre de Formació Pràctica, Sitec, J. Juan, Pursang, Cero Igus, Dinamica, Atelier Fotogràfic, Morad, Sevtronic, M&A, Galfer, Intech 3D, Coemmo, Böllhoff