Want to ride an e-bike? No batteries needed! • FRANCE 24 English

1:06 An electric motor that is also a generator is definitely not unique.

if we use an average EV battery of 60 kWh and compare it to an average e-bike battery of 0.5 kWh, the EV battery would be roughly equivalent to 120 e-bike batteries in terms of energy storage.

Super caps are expensive and store only small amounts of energy compared to a lithium battery. I think a hybrid technology would be perfect, because then the caps can store the high energy peaks, the lithium battery is unable top process and then slowly pass it on to the battery. I don't have an e-bike because I told myself I will only buy one when it is able to recuperate, like my EV, else it is a waste of energy grinding off your brakes and not be able to use the wasted energy for acceleration later. But these guys are on the right track👍
With my car when driving through the Alps I see all the combustion cars on the side of longer downhill roads, taking a break with smoking brakes, while I arrive in the valley with a recharged battery. Driving combustion cars is just a stupid concept, inefficient, loud, stinky, slow, powerless and just annoying … while permanently grinding off your clutch and brakes, the need for a multi speed gear box, a sensitive injection system, a starter motor, a very hot motor with a complex cooling system, an exhaust system with a catalyzer that contains rare earths, you need regular oil changes, timing belt changes … so much nonsensical stuff that drive the operational costs sky high in the long run. Though I respect and would even recommend people who still got a "modern" low fuel consumption ICE car, drive it until maintenance gets to expensive, maybe another 2-4 years and then go for an EV, because your ICE has already been built and would be wasteful to be trashed. EVs are evolving so much that in a few years they will be less expensive, more efficient, semi-autonomous, safer and easier to be recycled. The old batteries can be used another at least 10 years in a home energy store and later recycled because the lithium in there doesn't get lost and currently more than 95 of it can be recycled and used for a new battery or several batteries because the new ones need even less lithium.

Only 2000 Euro. That's $4000 for some of us Canadian. I can get a cheaper electric bike.

Don't tell the Americans they going to copryright the heck out of these techs

Well, sounds like extra work to me. The efficiency of an actual e bike is amazing! When You go for a couple hour ride, the bike drinks about five cents worth of juice, While I eat about ten dollars worth of lunch! This bike would be like dragging a brick on a rope for a couple of hours!
The drag of charging would make the boosted start silly. Can't beat a traditional bike, or an e bike with this thing, going from town to town…Sigh. Solar Charged E bikes are part of the solution.

Fantastic exept riding a bike in the uk is a death sentence. Cycle paths are few and very disjointed if your not in a city. Roads are to dammed dangerous.

Meanwhile in Africa… Maxwell Chikumtso's invention generates electricity from thin air. No fuel, recharging needed.

I am confused: Using bike momentum to operate a generator, then charge a supercapacitor and using that energy to run the bike, a cycle that have multiple energy losses, why don't you let the bike momentum do the mechanical work from the begining?

My bike is an e bike, I use my energy.
Fairplay though updating the dynamo.
A bicycle is definitely the best invention ever.
Steve Jobs reckoned the most efficient thing on the planet was a person on a bicycle.

No rare metals?
What's Trump going to say about this?

The British version has no electronics, and made in Yorkshire. EEE it's a bike.

I have two e-bikes that don't require batteries. One is like an e-bike but it runs on these two paddles you push with your legs. My other e-bike is a little different. It's kind of like a double e-bike with 4 wheels. It does have a battery, but I never need to charge it, just fill it up with this stuff that smells like paint thinner that I get from the place I buy Mountain Dew and Slim Jims.

the dude handling the elctronic could also change the timing per pulses on the hall sensor to stretch a bit more on the availabe charge per pedal..

Very innovative.

Maybe with solar. Range sucks otherwise.

~Long live the solar tour!

this is a old trick … 🙂

Keep up the good work. Ignore the negative comments. Keyboard geniuses greatly outnumber the brilliant ones who actually produce something.

Store energy in lithium or store energy in capacitor what's revolutionary?

It’s like when you have an electric vehicle and someone invests hybrid without combustion engine.