OT electric cars, where are the electric bikes?

Ok, so it can do 230 mph+ and has ok range.

http://www.eliica.com/

So, anyone got a fast electric bike up and running yet?

 

Muck
Dec 28 said:

Electric Cars takes hours to charge and you will have to take a ton of
batteries with you(not very practical
for a bike).

 

That's a little off the mark these days, a Lithium based battery has now
been developed by some big company that'll charge in minutes. Granted,
it's not fitted to that car yet, but it'll come.

 

I rather like it, the thought of 8 wheel drive appeals. The shape is
rather pleasing too. It's the 8 seater KAZ I don't much like.

http://www.tokyo-motorshow.com/show/2003/eng/PUBLIC/boothguide/Keio.html

It's all a conspiricy to get us riding electric peds in the future.

 

That URL you posted actually shows an electric bike as well. No idea of the
specs, as I can't speak Japanese.

 

Yeh, spotted that.. didn't comment on it as I can't speak Japanese
either. I got the inital info from this, which was in US English;

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2004/11/8wheeling_with_.html

 

That hydrogen-powered fuel-cell bike[]1] won some "award of the year"
last week[2]. Interesting concept but the infrastructure is nowhere near
ready yet. Methane- or methanol-powered fuel cells might be a better bet
at this stage, despite extra technology problems.

There was an electric drag-bike in one of the Scandinavian countries
a couplle of years ago, too.

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4353853.stm
[2] http://www.intelligent-energy.com/index_article.asp?SecID=15&secondlevel=798

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Quite a feat of technology I bet .....though the benefits of popping up to
the local takeaway at 120 miles per hour and having to walk back seem a bit
limited?

discuss

B

 

That hydrogen mountain bike is a good idea, but it all needs scaling up
to non moped levels. The infrastructure as you say is not ready for
hydrogen, but I can see a viable lithium based battery bike on the cards
when those fast charge cells hit the market.

I remember something about that, yes. Doing a little google, I found
http://www.nedra.com/ .

 

Why does everybody with an electric car try to make it look like something
out of a dodgy Thunderbirds remake? We're not going to save the planet with
8-wheeled 250mph comedy concept cars with gullwing doors at the back.

 

I very much doubt we'll save it with electric cars either.

 

Of course not. Orgone accumulators and agrarian reform is the only way
forward. I'm just having a rant about crap scifi styling and how it's
irrelevant to the technology being demonstrated.

 

Well, fuel cells may be quiet and efficient, but the only way to burn
hydrogen or methanol IMO is in a combustion chamber. Wivva piston.

 

I wonder, have engineers got round the embrittlement problems on running
with hydrogen yet?

 

The only way we'll save the planet is to get off it and leave it alone,
but there's not much chance of that happening. The styling, maybe it's
got something to do with its high top speed?

 

Is there a problem? I know that hydrogen is not good for steel
welding because of embrittlement caused by hydrogen inclusion, but
it's used for aluminium welding without problems. Does prolonged
exposure cause sufficient embrittlement to be a problem?

 

Yeh, I thought it did. Although I haven't done any real research, only
the stuff I've remembered in passing. If you ran a BMW bike on hydrogen,
how long would it take for the valves to snap off?

 

Muck
Dec 28 2005 Said:

I hear what you are saying, but there will never be en electric
Fireblade. Electric bikes will now solve the
pollution problems, it will just mean more Cole and nuclear fuel will
have-be burned to generate the
electricity for all those electric bikes(any electric bike with real
performance will have to almost the same amount of electricity as an
electric cooker).

And another thing the oil company's are making over £1,million a day
in the UK(I think the oil companies would do everything in its power to
make sure the electric vehicles fail(because they want to keep making
£1,million per day)).


The only alternative is a more refined fuel, that will pollute the air
less

 

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I think someone has forgotten to change their posting name back to the real
one from the frogging one....

D'oh!

Twat

Dave

 

Real performance would be 100Kw or so.
A supercooker with double oven is 10Kw or so.