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"Transportation using lightweight vehicles such as bicycles or scooters, especially electric ones that may be borrowed as part of a self-service rental program in which people rent vehicles for short-term use within a town or city.

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eBikes would be best vehicle during apocalypse, right? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Since gasoline because unusable after awhile, most cars will become obstacles and block up roads.

So we of course want something that can zip around the roads!

The main advantages I see are:

Peddle when out of juice
Peddling charges the batteries, so in an emergency you can turn on the battery
The batteries can reasonably be charged by solar panels that a lot of houses have.
Gets around all the blocked roads.
Generally easier to repair.
The distance travelled on a full battery is absurd

I don't expect any movies to put their heroes on an eBike, but they should!

IDK just thought you'd appreciate my dumb thought XD Any other reasons why during an apocalypse you should find an ebike?

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean 5 years is longer than the 6 months for gas, so if you have a vehicle that out lasts that I'd love to know it!

Many do charge when peddling, you can google and see many offer that feature.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I design and build DIY ebikes. I'm aware of what common systems are available and I don't know any that is capable of this. The only thing that comes close to this description is regen braking which isn't engaged while pedalling because it creates enough resistance as to make you stop. On a DIY you could theoretically turn regen on while riding at low rate to charge from your legs. Wouldn't be very practical because you can just use the same energy from your legs to ride longer. To be clear, there's no free charging where you just pedal normally and the battery charges. If you engage charging the battery, like turning on regen, it will make pedalling harder. The difficulty will be proportional to the energy you put in with additional 10-20% losses. Say you ride at 15kph, that generally takes about 60W. You know how that feels. If you charge with 60W while going at 15kph, your legs will have to produce about 130W. That'll feel as difficult as riding at 25kph.