Comming Bikes

[winterdog]

Hello peeps
Coming from a IT Tech back ground vendors like to Hype the new product long before it hits the market

Maybe I have not been checking out e-bikes long enough or im looking in the wrong place but I don’t see a large amount of look "look what’s coming!"

Perhaps I just need to keep my Neophilia in check when looking at new bikes

davidk

 

[Mussels]

I'm not sure the manufacturers really know what's coming until the first shipment is sent and even then it's a bit touch and go.
When an ebike manufacturer has made a claim that doesn't make it to the showroom or if they produce a bad batch then it haunts them for some time, so I think most adopt a cautious approach with announcements.
For daydreams masquerading as cutting edge technology just look for MIT press releases.

 

[Patrick]

It could simply be down to there not being that many e-bike manufacturers so there are fewer new bikes to hype.

 

[Footie]

It may be just me, but these days I seem to have an unhealthy interest in all things “battery”.
Back-along electric cars were making the news (LiFePO4 batteries) but that seems to have fizzled out to be replaced with reports of cheap small cars coming from India (going backwards as far as technology is concerned there) - not the way we want to go chaps.
Whether or not electric car technology will eventually filter down for electric bikes and spark a new generation is anyone's guess.
Things have gone quiet on all fronts these last few months - apart from the crazy MIT press releases - so that may indicate something new and exciting is just below the horizon - let's hope so

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Cougar Mountain Electric Bike (Jul07)
fitted with LiFePo4 battery (Apr08)
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[Danny-K]

. . . with reports of cheap small cars coming from India (going backwards as far as technology is concerned there) - not the way we want to go chaps.
Whether or not electric car technology will eventually filter down for electric bikes and spark a new generation is anyone's guess.
Things have gone quiet on all fronts these last few months - apart from the crazy MIT press releases - so that may indicate something new and exciting is just below the horizon - let's hope so

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Cougar Mountain Electric Bike (Jul07)
fitted with LiFePo4 battery (Apr08)
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Isn't it already here, and just about to take off?
- The Honda Clarity; electric motor - but fuelled by hydrogen - hydrogen fuel cells converted into electricity, with the only by-product 'exhaust' emissions being that of water. (Although it does have a small lithium ion battery pack also).

The Telegraph, Top Gear et al, are trumpeting it as THE most important breakthrough in 100 years of automotive innovation.

 

[Mussels]

Isn't it already here, and just about to take off?
- The Honda Clarity; electric motor - but fuelled by hydrogen - hydrogen fuel cells converted into electricity, with the only by-product 'exhaust' emissions being that of water. (Although it does have a small lithium ion battery pack also).

The Telegraph, Top Gear et al, are trumpeting it as THE most important breakthrough in 100 years of automotive innovation.

As hydrogen will be much easier to tax I expect it will be the governments favourite.

 

[torrent99]

As hydrogen will be much easier to tax I expect it will be the governments favourite.

But currently, horrendously inefficient in energy terms to create...

(roll on nuclear bikes! )

 

[winterdog]

As hydrogen will be much easier to tax I expect it will be the governments favourite.

Not sure as hydrogen can be whiped up at home(for a cost) Prety easly
some peope are looking at the idea of a home fule sation (sounds explosive)
davidk

PS i cant wait for my in bike "Mr Fusion"

 

[Footie]

Isn't it already here, and just about to take off?
- The Honda Clarity; electric motor - but fuelled by hydrogen - hydrogen fuel cells converted into electricity, with the only by-product 'exhaust' emissions being that of water. (Although it does have a small lithium ion battery pack also).

The Telegraph, Top Gear et al, are trumpeting it as THE most important breakthrough in 100 years of automotive innovation.

Honda FCX Clarity - Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle - Official Web Site

Hope we will be able to get various size cells - needs to be able to fit in my original SLA case
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[Danny-K]

"with the only by-product 'exhaust' emissions being that of water."

I meant water VAPOUR of course, then there's no water dripping anywhere near your (bicycle), tyres in winter to skid on.

EDIT:
P.S. As hydrogen is one of the most common elements in the universe, supplies are in abundance, literally, endless. And although it negates the need for oil/petrol as an energy source, and benefits instead by producing a 100% nil 'exhaust' pollution (there is no exhaust of course), on the environment. However, there is a counter argument that torrent 99 touches on above and that is to separate the hydrogen, (it loves binding itself to other elements - you could say it's a bit of a party animal in that it doesn't like it's own company), involves power stations etc., so the real pollution happens beforehand in producing the hydrogen cells. Anyway, the car is out and about and making inroads, with many fans; bound to hear more about this form of car as oil supplies dwindle/prove harder to dig up and thus more expensive to obtain.

Whatever one thinks of this type of car - it's not on some drawing board - it's here now, 'just' got the fuel station infrastructure to develop further. That's the big hold up, not the car itself.

 

[winterdog]

i was thinking about this today on the bus
and the real goal for most of the world is to get locomotion with out burning more stuff. idealy that means no burning stuff powestations to.


it would be kind of cool if you could get work somthing in to the photolysis prosess of a simple single cell plant that would just realese the Hydogen instead of using that acceptor

 

[Patrick]

i was thinking about this today on the bus
and the real goal for most of the world is to get locomotion with out burning more stuff. idealy that means no burning stuff powestations to.

it would be kind of cool if you could get work somthing in to the photolysis prosess of a simple single cell plant that would just realese the Hydogen instead of using that acceptor

It's not burning stuff in itself that's the problem, it's a taking carbon locked in fossil form (coal oil etc) and the biomass (rainforests) and releasing it into the atmosphere that causes the trouble.

Carbon's also pretty plentiful on Earth, and you can use plants to extract it from the atmosphere. So all we need to do is switch the power stations to burning sustainably grown wood and the problem's solved.

 

[winterdog]

one thing about trees is it requres land mass
what about all that waisted Ocean just sitting there soaking up the sun
think of the algae farms we could user
davidk