New system could prevent battery theft

[CeeGee]

(BBC News - Carbon nanotubes used to make batteries from fabrics)
Wear your ebike battery and take it with you when you park the bike.
Ideal for DIY kits - no battery case to find room on the bike for.

Colin

I think this may need just a tiny bit of development before we are all wearing 20Ah batteries.

 

[Andy_82]

quite interesting, look forward to see it

 

[flecc]

There were some details about this in the computer press a little while ago, but the capacity possibilities look rather low for our purposes. It may suit portable devices from music players through to netbooks and low drain notebook computers eventually.
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[CeeGee]

There were some details about this in the computer press a little while ago, but the capacity possibilities look rather low for our purposes. It may suit portable devices from music players through to netbooks and low drain notebook computers eventually.
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Come on - don't be negative.
It will just be necessary to wear about 20 layers of full body clothing to travel a couple of miles.
There seems to be a "new" type of battery construction every week, one of them must work eventually. Possibly turning the human body into a battery so that you can just plug yourself in when you get on the bike.

Colin

 

[flecc]

Come on - don't be negative.

Colin

Bearing in mind today's news on the upgrading of the terrorism threat to "serious" Colin, wearing this stuff could result in being shot as a precaution to protect the public.

On the basis that just being Brazilian is enough for that fate, electronic apparel will easily qualify.
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[CeeGee]

Obviously a standard e-bike battery may not in fact be a battery, so anybody riding a bike with a bomb-like attachment should be shot - just in case. The battery clothing may not be noticed and, indeed, it could be made bullet proof.
I normally carry my camera equipment with me and occasionally point it at things. I am almost certain to be shot anyway if I dare to take a picture of some daffodils in Hyde Park, and generally one only needs to be hit by a volley of bullets at point-blank range once.

Colin

 

[flecc]

I normally carry my camera equipment with me and occasionally point it at things. I am almost certain to be shot anyway if I dare to take a picture of some daffodils in Hyde Park,

Colin

How true!
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[Branwen]

Bearing in mind today's news on the upgrading of the terrorism threat to "serious" Colin, wearing this stuff could result in being shot as a precaution to protect the public.
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I came back to my back - chained up next to Holyrood - to find two policemen trying to decide if the battery was an explosive device when I first got in back in 2003 and no one much had heard of electric bikes. I got a telling off instead.

 

[eTim]

Get with the program guys - you are so far behind the curve, the 'wearable' battery vest was invented around 25 years ago...

 

[CeeGee]

Get with the program guys - you are so far behind the curve, the 'wearable' battery vest was invented around 25 years ago...

Now that is what I call a bomb waistcoat - I think I would shoot first and ask questions later if I saw that being worn.

Colin