36v panasonic batteries

[gerryscott]

I'm wondering if these are actual panasonic batteries on the kalkoff 2012 models.Their coming away with a pretty ridiculous mileage claim of 180 kilometers, but who knows they might prove me wrong.I know there is a pretty awful price hike, but I thought the Agattu C8 HS Impulse 8-G nexus with the 36v 15ah battery coming in at 2399euro-£2060pounds is not too bad.

 

[tillson]

I'm wondering if these are actual panasonic batteries on the kalkoff 2012 models.Their coming away with a pretty ridiculous mileage claim of 180 kilometers, but who knows they might prove me wrong.I know there is a pretty awful price hike, but I thought the Agattu C8 HS Impulse 8-G nexus with the 36v 15ah battery coming in at 2399euro-£2060pounds is not too bad.

Those mileage claims may be possible. My 24v 10Ah battery gives close to 50 miles range if used in low power mode. The 36 volt battery has over twice the capacity, so 100 miles + might be achievable.

Even though affordable, I don't think that I'd pay in excess of £2000 for a bike. These crank driven bikes are very good, but they simply are not worth that amount of money and time will tell if the asking price is too much.

 

[Deleted member 4366]

A 15aH 36v battery has about 600wH in it. You can give them out slowly, in which case you have to pedal hard or go very slow, or you can give them out fast and not have to pedal so hard and/or you can go faster. Your range for a given battery will depend mainly on the ratio of pedal power to power being given by the battery. Switch the battery off and your range is infinite. Apply a tiny bit of battery power and you can go a very long way. Increase your battery power a bit further and you won't go so far. That's logical. Therefore any claims about range while you're pedalling are meaningless.

For the same bike a 15aH battery will go a bit more than 50% further than a similar 10aH battery on the same bike and pedalling the same, so if you get 50 miles on a 10aH battery, you'll get about80 miles out of a 15aH one.

if I turn my bike down to minimum assist, it draws 4watts from the battery, and I'll be able to pedal at an average of 9mph. my battery has about 800wH (round number) so it'll go for 200 hours, which means a range of 1800 miles.

 

[kitchenman]

if I turn my bike down to minimum assist, it draws 4watts from the battery, and I'll be able to pedal at an average of 9mph. my battery has about 800wH (round number) so it'll go for 200 hours, which means a range of 1800 miles.

I don't think we should encourage this kind of usage as it'll make all our charge points redundant!

 

[Scottyf]

I'd think D8veh would need to stop anyway to pass out!