Well, my e-bike is a Dahon Marineer folding bike with a 350 watt BIONx motor and a 350 wh battery. It lets me ride a 10% grade with no pedaling at all, and a 13% grade with very light (no sweat) pedaling. When I ride using the throttle only and very light pedaling I get a realistic range of 18 miles at a speed of 17 MPH.The original bike weighed 28 lbs and with the full motor, and battery it weighs 46 lbs, so a total weight of 18 lbs more than the original bike.
The BIONx kit cost $1300, but after 5 years and 7000 miles the only maintenance I have had is one pair of brake pads and a set of tires (oh, I always ride in high gear and never change gears). And I detect no significant reduction in either power or range. I also have another Dahon marineer bike with no motor and I do not detect any significant drag compared with my BIONx kit. Your battery, however, at 720 WH, is almost twice as heavy as mine. I have tested many different e-bikes, but so far the BIONx kit is by far the best I have seen so far. -- Larry On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Danpatgal via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > Nice summary. I would say you're a little optimistic on total weight for > an > e-bike, I use a hub motor with a light 15ah 48v battery, and I'm easily 30 > lbs over a standard, maybe just a quibble. The regen % however is a bit > less realistic. I ride my e-bike up/down hills, and don't get more than 5% > regen, on a good day. Also, the "small amount" of drag when the hub motor > is off is more than slight, it's rather like cycling with a partially flat > tire. > > Otherwise, nice general write up. > > > > ----- > Dan Gallagher > http://www.evalbum.com/3854 > > -- > View this message in context: > http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Electric-bike-information-tp4671202p4671221.html > Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -- Larry Gales -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140827/b5eebc0e/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
