Home Made Electric Bicycle

Here’s a short video of someone who modified his bicycle to go electric. He used a brushless motor and a pack of several Li-Ion batteries of 36V capable of 30A (about 1kW). You’ll, see, he uses two, four, six, or eight of these batteries. That’s 8kW = about 5hp. That’s more than a regular motoscooter can do! I don’t know if I haven’t done any miscalculations, but this thing could get you to 100km/h easily! The batteries can be recharged in about 30 minutes. Watch the video and pull your own conclusions. After you did that, leave me a reply using the form below!

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3 Responses to “Home Made Electric Bicycle”

  1. [...] of 30A about 1kW. You??ll, see, he uses two, four, six, or eight of these batteries. That??s 8kWhttp://www.greenoptimistic.com/index.php/2008/04/16/home-made-electric-bicycle/New Hummer bike with Powerful Cyclone Electric bicycle MotorNew electric bike initial rides. [...]

  2. Nice Design. I am going to bookmark the site for my project.

  3. I think you may want to re-evaluate your conclusions. Batteries are the potential power available. The motor is only a 300W Brush less DC motor. Thats about 0.4 Hp. Which would work out to maybe 35 - 40 Km/h depending on driver weight. You could put 100 Kw worth of batteries on there and it wont make it go any faster.

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