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Jäeger wrote:Nifty little machine. How long does it take to fully charge it?
Woodsman wrote:P.S.> Specs inconsistent: 36v x10amps = 360 watts, not 500...
Would be cool to charge it via solar panels.
Save some money and get a pedal bike.svizzerams wrote:It is an excellent device for the type of commute I have here to work, which is just a bit over a mile with a bit of a hill at the end.
Kurt wrote:But cars and airplanes had their origins in the humble bicycle, and I think that is going to be the real future of electric powered vehicles today as well. Steam powered "Omnibuses" were popular in England in the 1840s as an option to use instead of horses and trains but a combination of them being unwieldy and "Red Flag Laws" limiting their top speed to 5pm and that they had to be accompanied by a flag waver warning pedestrians of their approach killed the English steam car. It took the bicycle combined with a more Laissez faire attitude in Germany and America to make the car take off, and we need that attitude today if an electric will eventually really compete against gasoline.
Sadly I think we are headed more toward legislation to substitute car engines with electric ones and that will eventually leave us with electric Trabants.
Novimya wrote:How long is your commute? Would a pedal bike work? Then you would get your exercise and commute done in one swell foop. Would be difficult to get enough juice from solar. If it's just a couple of miles, ride a pedal bike. See lots of these in China.
el3so wrote:Save some money and get a pedal bike.svizzerams wrote:It is an excellent device for the type of commute I have here to work, which is just a bit over a mile with a bit of a hill at the end.
Kurt wrote:You have a point there but sometimes there is a benefit that cannot be seen right away with just the application of logic until you apply the logic of others. Like I wrote before and Novimya wrote, the Chinese use bikes like these all the time. In NYC it is rare to see a chinese man on a bicycle that is not electric (I never see Chinese women on bicycles here though and that is odd), so, like with French people and food, I tend to assume Chinese people know more about practical bike riding than I do.
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