Dynamo leg powered ebikes - a good idea?

[MichaelW2]

It is a legal workaround for an ebike, but quite a velocitous one.

 

[presta]

So you now have a total of 250W including your legs instead of 250W in addition to your legs that you have on an ordinary EAPC. Great! What's not to like.

 

[Tigerbiten]

I'm more interested in what happens going down a shallow hill.
I can easily reach 20mph on my ICE Sprint going down a 2% slope.
With the Pers setup, you can easily reach 15 mph on the same 2% downward slope.
But now what ????
Pedalling faster/harder makes no difference as the motor cuts out at that speed.
The slope is to shallow for gravity to speed you up.
So do you get stuck at 15mph with no way of going faster.

 

[albion]

Yup, there is lots of acclimatisation with ebikes.

Long term I would like to see a licensing scheme, maybe £20 or £50 per year, but free charge ultra fast charge points for all payers.
At 10C a 50 mile charge would be faster than downing a coffee. Logically that would coincide with fireproof battery availability.
Policing it could much be done via a BT battery dongle.

 

[classic33]

Yup, there is lots of acclimatisation with ebikes.

Long term I would like to see a licensing scheme, maybe £20 or £50 per year, but free charge ultra fast charge points for all payers.
At 10C a 50 mile charge would be faster than downing a coffee. Logically that would coincide with fireproof battery availability.
Policing it could much be done via a BT battery dongle.

No acclimatisation required, ebikes like the one in this thread and the one started by Steve in Denmark on the same trike, fall outside the current UK regulations for e-assist cycles.
But there's other markets where such a system would be legal. Despite the drawbacks.

 

[albion]

I was referring to the prior post about sticking to 15mph.
And a licensing scheme could enable easier detection of illegal bikes.

 

[classic33]

Yup, there is lots of acclimatisation with ebikes.

Long term I would like to see a licensing scheme, maybe £20 or £50 per year, but free charge ultra fast charge points for all payers.
At 10C a 50 mile charge would be faster than downing a coffee. Logically that would coincide with fireproof battery availability.
Policing it could much be done via a BT battery dongle.

Long term, once they remove any "freebies" for all EV owners/operators, maybe they can move onto electric bikes. But the last one won't be popular, as "it's a bicycle".
That mindset is what needs working on, with people being reminded what's legal, and what isn't.

 

[albion]

They would not be freebies if paid via a yearly license scheme. That license scheme would also aid a move to newer safer batteries.
In a couple of years I also suspect the batteries we currently use will be banned, like what has already happened in China.

 

[classic33]

They would not be freebies if paid via a yearly license scheme. That license scheme would also aid a move to newer safer batteries.
In a couple of years I also suspect the batteries we currently use will be banned, like what has already happened in China.

At present they are, for those who got their renewal date(s) right. Zero VED payable on electric vehicles might be coming to an end but we're not there yet.