Enclosed cabin, no climate control, pedaling away? It’ll smell like a gym locker in there inside of a week. Interesting concept but the execution leaves me thinking they’d be better off with a targa top or something to let more air inside.
How then will they attract the attention of other guys?
So it is really an electric motorcycle where I can pretend to add a little power to it.
spandex is so ghey.
That actually sounds pretty amazing.
Too pricy. But a cheaper model would make a lot of sense for personal transportation, in certain situations, in certain places.
Can I get a clear one? With the CO2 build-up and all that light I could grow a bed of kale in it.
A modern, high quality bicycle is pretty efficient.
I find it hard to believe it would be more energy efficient to run both a motor and generator and have less energy loss than a modern chain drive.
A toy for the rich to go to the convenience store in Phoenix. Imagine driving one of these contraptions right now, in Minnesota.
$40k a copy and that’s the best they can do?
Back to the drawing board.
Add a small Coleman generator and it would be a handy way to get around :)
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I designed (sketched) something almost identical back in the 1970’s that is still in my night stand by my bed! I had the flywheel concept in mind, but never incorporated the electric motor assist idea. Everything else but the erodynamic fairing was there but that! I hope the guy succeeds with it. I’m now too old and tired to compete with him.
I’m going to PEDAL a 570 pound vehicle? Right.
9.2-kWh li-ion battery pack
20 kW motor
Range of approximately 50 miles with full charge with no human assist.
A trained cyclist can produce about 400 watts for an hour.
Adults of good average fitness average between 50 and 150 watts for an hour of vigorous exercise.
Say you did 50 mph and consumed all 9.2 kWh stored in the battery. The average weekend warrior could produce 0.4 kWh over that hour.
So you are contributing about 4% of the total power consumed. And you’ll be drenched doing it.
Summary: LOSER
It’s funny these things seem to be targeted for city people, but, you can’t plug your car or whatever if it’s parked on the next block. Your can drive it to work but you have to pay to park it like your car. I use a bike and when it’s cold out it’s cold but, it’s free. minus the tubes and tires and stuff. and you would be amazed at how many days it doesn’t rain when they say it will. as long as i can get to work dry, i ride, wet coming home so what. i save more money on not having to take a shower the next day.
As with every other enclosed electric powered vehicle, once you add the necessary heating and air conditioning, to make it useful for more than a few days of the year, its range becomes quite low.
I really like the idea of the wide 2 wheeled front end, and rally for the licensing. This will change the way (at least some) bicyclists abuse their maneuverability in defiance of traffic law.
I just designed a machine that once it’s started, it never stops. I’m going to use to power a process I just developed that will transform common lead into gold.