Electric Bikes

[ChrisG]

Interesting. Honda, Yamaha, KTM and Piaggio join forces on battery bikes | News (bennetts.co.uk)

 

Honda, Yamaha, KTM and Piaggio are looking to come up with a standardised swappable battery design for bikes.  The idea that you could go to an equivalent of a petrol station and swap your flat battery for a full one seems to have been dropped by the car manufacturers (Tesla demo'd an automated system for a drive in drive out battery replacement, but it seems to have died a death), but could still be workable for the smaller batteries electric bikes will require, and would remove some of the range anxiety.

 

I still don't see a big market yet for electric bikes other than commuters and maybe offroaders though.

 

Loads of electric mopeds around here from rental companies, not had a go on one yet though.