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[QUOTE=Keg;76431]According to this wikipedia spec: Battery is 9mj/kg and petrol is 43.2Mj/kg, that is less than 5 times as much, not 25.
I would be interested in reading the link you found on Wicki. The guy that gave me the 25:1 number was talking about BTU content produced by the same weight battery vs one gallon of gasoline. A internal combustion is not very efficient as it loses most of it's energy through heat loss so maybe your 5:1 ratio comes from a different way of measuring. On another note you can pour a gallon of fuel in a tank much faster than recharging a battery. Let's face it, we will all favor the battery when it is better and even at 5:1 it isn't even close. |
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Yes you would have to replace the battery. Toyota has lowered the list price to $2299 for a replacement battery .Eventually when there becomes a demand for them, no doubt competition will drive the prices lower. Sorry to derail this thread . There is alot of confusion and rumors about the technology . I hope gasgas finds a niche market for this bike and the technology evolves . It would be fun to play with one around the city, I doubt it would be something you would want to compete in an event at this point .a few years from now .. Who knows ?
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Holeshot on Electric Bike at AMA HS
I am a member of Florida Trial Riders and this link was posted in their forum. I couldn't believe it until I saw this video....WOW!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHKXP...ature=youtu.be
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WOW is right! How long can that thing run on a charge? Never seen so many dirt naps and he sure did pick good lines to get around them.
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I would love to get one of the all electric trials bikes.
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The human population is made up of Luddites, that shout a lot, or the majority that just passes though doing nothing but consuming and excreting and a very few visionaries who actually make thing happen and allow us to live in a world where we aren't still cutting our steaks with stone knives.
There are so many alternative renewable sources of energy available that getting stuck on the idea that only 1 technology needs to be pursued or that if 1 doesn't work now it will never work or that the technology of today is as good as it gets, puts you in either category 1 or 2. Alternatives are suppressed by those who make trillions off of fossil fuels and everything built around them and by those who buy into their hype. If they can get a light weight battery to last 60 to 90 minutes and be quick change in the time it would take to refuel I'd buy one in a heartbeat providing it doesn't cost twice as much. Which it won't in time. I have no attachment to shifting a transmission or the noise an engine makes and I don't see why anyone would. Disposal of the batteries is a real issue but perhaps we will be able to make them so they don't wear out, or at least last for thousands of recharge cycles. Probably so. The technology of 100 years hence will make it look like we had just barley invented the wheel in 2013.
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