Miles on xxxWH battery

[jowwy]

OK with a 17 ah battery I get around 56 miles, but I'm riding a heavy trike in a hilly area and it has a throttle and some times I'm jusy plain lazy, other times I feel like superman, but the latter is short lived Oh and I weigh in at 82kg and I carry a shed load of tools too..............

i think we all have that feeling sometimes....thats why we love the EEEEEE

82kg is a lightweight aint it.......i'm 120+kgs

 

[ColinJ]

sorry colin i didnt see the rest of your post...........

I realised that I had forgotten to mention that bit so I edited the post after your first reply!

There was a video posted by GCN yesterday, where Hank's dad did Sa Calobra in Majorca on an e-bike. Reaching the top with 1 bar left.

That is 9.5Km, at an average of 7% gradient. Obviously on that, he is going to be having maximum assist for the whole distance.

I watched that. What a fantastic climb! Shame about the traffic though...

The Pinarello he was riding was great but he did use up most of the energy in the battery on that one climb. That would be approximately equivalent to 2-3 of the longer, tougher climbs round here. A very expensive bike too!

A non-cyclist friend was watching with me and she told me that she fancies getting an ebike conversion kit for her bike***. She likes the look of the Swytch kit but that only has a 180 Wh battery, which I think would be pitifully inadequate for the hills we would be tackling. (I also have my doubts that the motor would have enough torque for the steeper stuff.) @jowwy's 500 Wh battery sounds a lot more useful.


*** Yes, she does own a bike, but she doesn't ride it because our hills put her off, and the valley roads are too busy for her.

 

[Pale Rider]

I realised that I had forgotten to mention that bit so I edited the post after your first reply!


I watched that. What a fantastic climb! Shame about the traffic though...

The Pinarello he was riding was great but he did use up most of the energy in the battery on that one climb. That would be approximately equivalent to 2-3 of the longer, tougher climbs round here. A very expensive bike too!

A non-cyclist friend was watching with me and she told me that she fancies getting an ebike conversion kit for her bike***. She likes the look of the Swytch kit but that only has a 180 Wh battery, which I think would be pitifully inadequate for the hills we would be tackling. (I also have my doubts that the motor would have enough torque for the steeper stuff.) @jowwy's 500 Wh battery sounds a lot more useful.


*** Yes, she does own a bike, but she doesn't ride it because our hills put her off, and the valley roads are too busy for her.

The Pinarello ebike has a relatively small 252wh battery, but the video does indicate the extent to which climbing slurps power.

 

[fossyant]

I can't answer the question. I only run on miles per banana ! And it's not great, about 30 mpb.

 

[numbnuts]

i think we all have that feeling sometimes....thats why we love the EEEEEE

82kg is a lightweight aint it.......i'm 120+kgs

I've never been called a lightweight

 

[ColinJ]

OK with a 17 ah battery I get around 56 miles

How many volts is it?

(Watt-hours = Volts x Amp-hours, so we have to know both figures to calculate the equivalent Watt-hour figure.)

 

[T4tomo]

I watched that. What a fantastic climb! Shame about the traffic though...

It is a super climb, very pretty and the big corkscrew corner near the top is something to behold. I did it in a September so the crowds had died off a bit so didn't have streams of buses coming up. It is also unusual in that its a dead end road down to the little port, so unless you arrive by boat, you descend to the bottom and climb back up, whereas most climbs you go up before descending.

 

[Pale Rider]

I can't answer the question. I only run on miles per banana ! And it's not great, about 30 mpb.

Which leads me to recycle my old joke.

You can cycle a long way on a banana, but much further on a bicycle.

 

[numbnuts]

How many volts is it?

(Watt-hours = Volts x Amp-hours, so we have to know both figures to calculate the equivalent Watt-hour figure.)

36v

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

36v

Can we assume a legal 250W motor - interesting to see how far the trike can go on a full charge compared to a 2 wheeler

 

[ColinJ]

36v

Ah, so 612 Wh - quite a chunky one!

 

[numbnuts]

Ah, so 612 Wh - quite a chunky one!

Yeah chunky price at £400

 

[numbnuts]

Can we assume a legal 250W motor - interesting to see how far the trike can go on a full charge compared to a 2 wheeler

Yes 250w

 

[welsh dragon]

Asking that question is like saying how long is a piece of string. The answer will be different for everyone riding the same bike, with the same battery in different places.

So much depends on the weight of the rider, the roads ridden on, the amount of assist you use, the hills if any and the weather conditions so it's a non starter.

 

[jowwy]

Asking that question is like saying how long is a piece of string. The answer will be different for everyone riding the same bike, with the same battery in different places.

So much depends on the weight of the rider, the roads ridden on, the amount of assist you use, the hills if any and the weather conditions so it's a non starter.

But im asking how many miles you have got, out of your battery……im not comparing against mine or anyone else.

have you experimented personally to see how many miles YOU can get out of YOUR battery????