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General Discussion / Re: Welcome!
« on: July 07, 2010, 09:39:09 AM »
Howdy!
I'm Jim, I've been messing around with electric motorcycles since 2007, when I converted my wife's Ninja 250 into a research vehicle....turned obsession. I've put over 2000 miles on it as an electric (not many, considering the span of years, but it gives you a sense of how much time has gone into redesigning and rebuilding to get better speed and performance). In the process of learning how to go faster, I've burned up a lot of expensive stuff that wasn't ready for highway speeds and the resulting power requirements. Here are a couple of links with photos of the project:
http://www.prometheussolar.com/Motorcycle.aspx
and
http://green.autoblog.com/2008/09/29/altcar-2008-prometheus-solar-powered-electric-motorcycle/
I'm working on a new bike, designed as an electric from the ground up. I've tried to attach a teaser photo, but your system says it's out of room. This is a full sized bike, aimed at real motorcycle performance and a 75 mile minimum range on a charge. I've been able to ride it a little, but we're working through some expensive lessons about lithium polymer batteries.... More when it's running regularly. Here's a site with some preliminary photos:
http://www.novakineticsmotors.com/
Anyway, this looks like an interesting forum, I'm glad I found it.
I'm Jim, I've been messing around with electric motorcycles since 2007, when I converted my wife's Ninja 250 into a research vehicle....turned obsession. I've put over 2000 miles on it as an electric (not many, considering the span of years, but it gives you a sense of how much time has gone into redesigning and rebuilding to get better speed and performance). In the process of learning how to go faster, I've burned up a lot of expensive stuff that wasn't ready for highway speeds and the resulting power requirements. Here are a couple of links with photos of the project:
http://www.prometheussolar.com/Motorcycle.aspx
and
http://green.autoblog.com/2008/09/29/altcar-2008-prometheus-solar-powered-electric-motorcycle/
I'm working on a new bike, designed as an electric from the ground up. I've tried to attach a teaser photo, but your system says it's out of room. This is a full sized bike, aimed at real motorcycle performance and a 75 mile minimum range on a charge. I've been able to ride it a little, but we're working through some expensive lessons about lithium polymer batteries.... More when it's running regularly. Here's a site with some preliminary photos:
http://www.novakineticsmotors.com/
Anyway, this looks like an interesting forum, I'm glad I found it.