Clay
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Post by Clay on Dec 23, 2018 16:00:42 GMT -5
This is very close to the design I have had rolling around in my head for many years: ![]()  original post |
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Post by davej98002 on Dec 23, 2018 20:50:00 GMT -5
Welcome Clay. NICE!!!
I am a huge EV WANT TO BE. With current (no pun) Hub motors getting better every year and dual controllers you can now run dual hub motors up front. The biggest and heaviest part are current (no pun again) batteries. 20 years ago it was huge Lead/Acid batteries and you got 500 charges and then had to replace all of them. New Lithium batteries can accept 2000 to 5000 charges before they drop below a 80 percent recharge rate. The 18650 Li cell are getting cheaper every day.
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Clay
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Post by Clay on Dec 23, 2018 21:34:04 GMT -5
The 18650 Li cell are getting cheaper every day. It won't be long before we will all own an EV of one kind or another. |
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Post by davej98002 on Dec 23, 2018 22:23:33 GMT -5
I want a ZERO 14.2 SR but $18,000 is not going to happen.
I am tossed with replacing my Burgman 650cc scooter with one of these "$2499 delivered to your door" CSC "City Slickers" now that I do not commute 82 miles round trip daily. www.cscmotorcycles.com/default.asp?page=xNewInventoryDetail&id=5652551&p=1&s=Year&d=D&t=new&fr=xNewInventoryTop speed is a bit slow at 40-42 MPH but to go to town from here is 7 miles at 40 MPH so it will do it. It has a 72 volt 30Ah battery and a 3.2 kw peak motor. My plans would be to make another battery pack in two saddle bags that would have 80 volts and 60 Ah's for just a bit more speed and range. The motor should survive a 10% boost in voltage if I cool it down some how. |
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Post by ahweh on Dec 24, 2018 1:04:59 GMT -5
I have a partially designed hub motor that I would like to build one day and put into a electric leaning reverse trike that I am also in the design phases of.
Maybe one day these two of my many design projects will become a reality.
Also Tesla is or has switched from the 18650 cells to the 21700 cells which they are making and is probably why the 18650 cells are coming down in price.
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Post by davej98002 on Dec 24, 2018 2:04:54 GMT -5
I have a partially designed hub motor that I would like to build one day and put into a electric leaning reverse trike that I am also in the design phases of. Maybe one day these two of my many design projects will become a reality. Also Tesla is or has switched from the 18650 cells to the 21700 cells which they are making and is probably why the 18650 cells are coming down in price. I grew up around Cessna 150's and 172's. So if I were to do a tilting trike I'd use some sort of servos to control pneumatic rams that my legs would control like a planes rudder control for a two minuet turn. A little left pedal and a bit left wheel and the trike would lay over in a corner. Yes in a plane the stick or wheel controls the ailerons, sort of like leaning a bike but our hands will be doing the rudder's work and the feet the aileron's work. Bassakwards. I have always been one with the bike and flying around corners is just like flying a Cessna up there. My Suzuki Burgman 650cc scooter is like flying a heavy de Havilland Otter single.
I bet with a little practice you could do some counter steering like on a motorcycle, lean left but push the bar to go slight right and the bike tucks down sweet.
Thread drifting a bit, Sorry Clay.
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Post by ahweh on Dec 24, 2018 7:39:06 GMT -5
This is the Futuristic Concept Electric Trike Thread so my trike might fit right in becaust it won't get built till the future.
It is just a concept right now and it will be both electric as well as a reversed trike.
Now what I am intending to do for leaning and turning is a very low rpm high torque hydraulic motor on the front suspension I have designed coupled to a micro computer and either a micro load cell or a reostat possibly both.
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Post by Admin on Dec 24, 2018 13:47:04 GMT -5
Dave, that CSC bike reminded me of a young man that drove his Yamaha 60cc track racing bike flatout everyday to work and back home. It was so loud you could hear him coming 5 miles down the road. I could hear him drive by my house and it was 3/4 mile from the highway. no lights,no horn, no nothing but a pure race bike. I heard him for over a year before he disappeared.
If you buy that bike have a picture of you on it and put it up on the forum, LOL.
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Post by davej98002 on Dec 24, 2018 14:35:19 GMT -5
I knew a guy that worked at Starbucks Corp office in downtown Seattle. He lived on the other side of the mountain and commuted over 82 miles one way.... On a Kawasaki Ninja 250.
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