new ebike does 'at least' 500 miles on new style battery......

[dmcgoldrick]

news in today from a secret source spying on an unknown chinese/german stealth bike spotted on a test track 'somewhere' .....is that it weighs only 3 kilo including a huge miniature 100ah battery 'which goes for ever' (well at least 500 miles anyway) without a recharge.
the bike is made from a new material from the space programme of north korea, so nobody yet knows what this could be. the bike will most certainly be better than yours, accelerate quicker, fly uphills and make you feel like superman (or superwoman).
it will have a jazzy name and could retail at any price between £100 and £10,000 so that all pedelec members can have one and not have to either look down on low cost bikes or look up in awe at what some people on big fat pensions gained before the stock market crash spend on boys toys and think of as small change.
lots of dealers will be clambering about to become the supplier of the new bikes and are already doubling all the technical benefits of such a bike so that joe public becomes even more confused during the buying process.
hope this is of interest but check the date of the post before throwing your current ebikes onto the scrap heap.........
regards

 

[50 Hertz]

news in today from a secret source spying on an unknown chinese/german stealth bike spotted on a test track 'somewhere' .....is that it weighs only 3 kilo including a huge miniature 100ah battery 'which goes for ever' (well at least 500 miles anyway) without a recharge.
the bike is made from a new material from the space programme of north korea, so nobody yet knows what this could be. the bike will most certainly be better than yours, accelerate quicker, fly uphills and make you feel like superman (or superwoman).
it will have a jazzy name and could retail at any price between £100 and £10,000 so that all pedelec members can have one and not have to either look down on low cost bikes or look up in awe at what some people on big fat pensions gained before the stock market crash spend on boys toys and think of as small change.
lots of dealers will be clambering about to become the supplier of the new bikes and are already doubling all the technical benefits of such a bike so that joe public becomes even more confused during the buying process.
hope this is of interest but check the date of the post before throwing your current ebikes onto the scrap heap.........
regards

As I rest in my hospital bed whilst recovering from a nasty accident, I can't help but wonder if this is an April fool joke.

 

[anniegirl]

Well I'll believe it when I see it

 

[AlMel]

이는 북한의 군사 당국에 의해 최고 기밀로 분류되어 있습니다. 대책은 도둑에 대해 수행됩니다.

“This is classified top secret. Measures will be taken against the thief”


Translation kindly provided by N. Korean refugee Mr. Hai Go Taway

 

[Martin@e-bikeshop]

Haha, made me smile..
Love it!

Martin

 

[trex]

news in today from a secret source spying on an unknown chinese/german stealth bike spotted on a test track 'somewhere' .....is that it weighs only 3 kilo including a huge miniature 100ah battery 'which goes for ever' (well at least 500 miles anyway) without a recharge.
the bike is made from a new material from the space programme of north korea, so nobody yet knows what this could be. the bike will most certainly be better than yours, accelerate quicker, fly uphills and make you feel like superman (or superwoman).
it will have a jazzy name and could retail at any price between £100 and £10,000 so that all pedelec members can have one and not have to either look down on low cost bikes or look up in awe at what some people on big fat pensions gained before the stock market crash spend on boys toys and think of as small change.
lots of dealers will be clambering about to become the supplier of the new bikes and are already doubling all the technical benefits of such a bike so that joe public becomes even more confused during the buying process.
hope this is of interest but check the date of the post before throwing your current ebikes onto the scrap heap.........
regards

Actually, it's feasable right now. Researchers at MIT have built a micro-engine capable of charging a battery at 10W.Engine on a chip promises to best the battery - MIT News Office

How can one make a tiny fuel-burning engine? An engine needs a compressor, a combustion chamber, a spinning turbine and so on. Making millimeter-scale versions of those components from welded and riveted pieces of metal isn't feasible. So, like computer-chip makers, the MIT researchers turned to etched silicon wafers.

Their microengine is made of six silicon wafers, piled up like pancakes and bonded together. Each wafer is a single crystal with its atoms perfectly aligned, so it is extremely strong. To achieve the necessary components, the wafers are individually prepared using an advanced etching process to eat away selected material. When the wafers are piled up, the surfaces and the spaces in between produce the needed features and functions.

Making microengines one at a time would be prohibitively expensive, so the researchers again followed the lead of computer-chip makers. They make 60 to 100 components on a large wafer that they then (very carefully) cut apart into single units.
Challenges ahead

The MIT team has now used this process to make all the components needed for their engine, and each part works. Inside a tiny combustion chamber, fuel and air quickly mix and burn at the melting point of steel. Turbine blades, made of low-defect, high-strength microfabricated materials, spin at 20,000 revolutions per second -- 100 times faster than those in jet engines. A mini-generator produces 10 watts of power. A little compressor raises the pressure of air in preparation for combustion. And cooling (always a challenge in hot microdevices) appears manageable by sending the compression air around the outside of the combustor.

"So all the parts work. We're now trying to get them all to work on the same day on the same lab bench," Epstein said. Ultimately, of course, hot gases from the combustion chamber need to turn the turbine blades, which must then power the generator, and so on. "That turns out to be a hard thing to do," he said. Their goal is to have it done by the end of this year.