Veligo will Launch A Rental Program of Electric Bike

According to US media reported that French Public Transport Company IDFM will launch a rental program of Electric Mountain Bike. This program called veligo, which plans to invest 20,000 electric bike for residents in Paris and surrounding areas.

This plan will be launched officially in September 2019 with 111 million euros. The first batch of 10,000 Folding Electric Bikes are planned to be put into operation. If the effect is good, IDFM intends to increase its number to 20,000. This will make it to be the largest rental program of electric bike in the world.

The Veligo aims to promote green travel to alleviate environmental pollution in the city of Paris. The Veligo electric bike looks similar to a regular Velib bike, but the Veligo electric bike can be charged for about 9 km at one time. Vélib bicycles are charged per hour for parking and parking, and must be parked at a roadside station after use. Véligo charges a rental fee of 40 euros (about 315 yuan) per month, which users can park in their homes. In addition, Véligo bicycles also enjoy transportation subsidies, half of which will be provided by the user's company, and users only need to pay 20 euros per month (about 157 yuan).

GM has Released Two New Electric Bike

General Motors has released two new vehicles on November 2. They are electric bike. One is folding ebike, and another is fixed. They will be available in 2019 and are designed for commuting in the city.

According to the report from The Verge, GM did not introduce too much such as size, weight, type, price and so on. The company is now looking for consumers to name these two electric bikes. Once the name is determined, GM will announce the price and the purchas method of the electric assist bike.

Folding Electric bike is effort to promote future plans for electrification. GM is the largest automaker in the United States to produce and sell cars for more than 100 years, but most Gms rely on fuel. In recent years, with the assistance of the US government, the company began to produ  e electric bike.

Now, expect for cars, consumers will choose online and shared cars. This market change has caused the old car manufacturer to lose $3.9 billion in 2017. In fact, there are very few electric bike manufacturers in North America. Although many electric bike companies are located in Europe, electric bikes are mainly from China. Today, traditional car manufacturers are struggling to use their experience in manufacturing, battery and power systems to develop more electric two-wheelers, such as motorcycles, bicycles and scooters.

Current Situation of Electric Bike

Automobile Cluture is deeply rooted in American. Americans are used to driving even if they travel short distances. Therefor, electric bike is just for leisure and fitness.

Compared to ordinary bicycles, best electric bikes are much more expensive in the United States. The price of an electric bike is $1000 to $3000. Still now, electric bike belongs to nicle products.

Why are there few scenes for using ebike in the United States? In fact, we can understand the reason by analyzing the geographical conditions and urban planning of the United States Usually, the most convenient travel range for ebike is about 3-10 kilometers away from walking. For the most countries, it can easily cover people’s travel range.

However, 90% of areas are barren land beside highways. If people are living in village, they need to drive 20km to buy living goods. The capacity of electric mountain bike cannot meet the demand. However, even if the market is relatively small, the United States is still the main exporter of electric bike in China. In recent years, electric bike is becoming more and more popular in the sports and leisure fields.

In the Netherlands, bicycles play an important role in urban transport. The number of bicycles in the Netherlands are 18 million. Therefore, the Netherlands is called the “Bicycle Kingdom”.

There are many reasons why the Dutch bicycle penetration rate is so high. Fist of all, the Dutch terrain is flat, which is also a prerequisite for cycling. Secondlym the bicycle facilities are sound, and the Netherlands is the first country in the world to estabilish bicycle lanes.

Intebike in 2019

The largest bicycle professional exhibition(Interbike) in Americas since 1982 will be held in Reno, Nevada, September 17-19, 2019.

Interbike is still the leading platform for innovative products in the international bicycle industry. The most popular category of exhibits for buyers are bicyc;e accessories, mountain bikes, electric bike and related clothing and helmets. The well-developped categories in 2018 was electric mountain bike, best electric bike, electric motor and electric assist bike.

In recent years, China is still the main export market of electric bike for sale. In 2014, the United states imported 95% of its total imports of ebike from China. The demand is about 18 million per year in US.

With the strengthen awareness of environmental protection, United States government calling on people to “fall in love with bicycles”. On the street, you could see many people are riding ebike. It was understood that in the past few years, the United States has sold about 18 million bicycles a year, and annual sales are about 6 billion. The industry expects that the sales will increas significantly in the coming year.

The History of Electric Bike

The development of ebike has been preceded by European countries such as Japan and Germany. In recent years, the United States has also developed rapodly. In forgin, Folding ebike is a fitness tool what is easy to travel and leisure. It can be used in large parking lots, supermarkets and tourist areas. In general, the potential of ebike market is large in the world.

As electric bike companies must have development capabilities of comprehensive technological(from motor kits, batteries to other components). Through research and development, companies can create new products with high added value. The development history of Japanese electric bike fully illustrate this point.

After the sales of ebike increased to 224,000 in 1997, and many manufacturers were optimistic that at this rate. Unexpectedly, the sales volume of Japanese ebike dropped to 150,000 in 1998.

After analysis, the main reason is that follow-up improvement of product technology is not enough, and the development of high value-added products has not made progress, thus making the market fall into troubles. At that time, manufacturers set a goal to focus on “lightweight” and “increased battery life"

In order to achieve the goal of lighter weight of the whole vehicle, it mainly develops from two aspects: First, the motor is miniaturized. Panasonic has developed a highly reliable DC brushless motor to reduce the weight of the motor by adopting a patent-intensive new winding process and a super-magnetic magnetic magnet integral molding process. The second is the lightweight of the car body. In addition to the motor and battery, the most heavy component on the car is the car body. However, if the weight of the frame wall is reduced by pursuing lightweight, it will inevitably reduce the strength and rigidity of the frame, thus affecting the safety of riding. To this end, Panasonic has developed the high-strength alloy steel and related processes through Aixix, and adopted advanced design methods such as “Finite Element Method” in structural design to effectively improve the car body parameters and ensure the safety of the car body structure. Reduced weight.

How to Protect Your Lithium Battery of Electric Bike

In recent years, with the advancement of lithium battery technology and the reduction of production cost, electric bike is very popular among most families. Compared with traditional lead-acid batteries, lithium battery is light. Its cycle life is long and energy density is high. Most of lithium battery kufe us designed to be around 1000 times, which is three to four years. But this does not mean that after three to four years, the service life od lithium battery is terminated. But this does not mean that the service life of the lithium battery is terminated after three to four years. As long as you pay attention to these points, the lithium battery life of electric bike can be doubled.

City electric bike can not be used in extreme environments. In summer, many people would like to parking ebike under the sun, or paking in the yard in winter. These behaviors are very unfavorable for the service life of lithium batteries. You should to park electric bike in home as much as possible.

 

New Electric Bike 

To charge with an adapted charger and avoid large currents. The chemical activity of lithium batteries is much more active than lead-acid batteries, so its requirements for chargers are higher. Fast charger is not suitable for using. It not only affects the service life of the lithium battery, but also caused explosion.

For new electric bike, it is two to three grids, and there is very little full power. The long storage time of full power will reduce the capacity of lithium battery.

Lithium Battery of Electric Bike

The power performance of the lithium battery of electric bike is similar to the lead-acid battery. I can run 30~45 kilometers depending on the battery capacity. The biggest advantage of ebike is their long life.

Lithium battery will be a sleep state. At this time, the capacity is lower than the normal value. However, the lithium battery is easy to activate. After three times to five times charge and discharge cycles, the normal capactiy of battery is restored. Due to the characterics of lithium battery, it determined that it has almost no memory effect.

At presentm, the price of lithium is higher than lead-acid battery of fat tire electric bike, so it is difficult to get recognition from consumers in the market. Lithium battery is light and environmentally friendly, and will not cause environmental pollution after being discarded. Once the application technology is mature and the market sales increasem the price of lithium battery will drop.

The security of lithium battery still needs to be improved. The hidden dangers of lithium battery such as fire, burning and even exploding are still not completely solved. Collision may cause the positive and negative materials of battery to break through the diaphram.