The Experience of Electric Bike

The first time I rode an MTB Mountain Ebike was to travel in Copenhagen. At that time, I wantted to vist the city centre by my ebike. Along the Frederiksholm canal in the city centre, it is the best solution for my needs.

The touch screen on the handlebar teaches me how to pick up the ebike from the parking lot and pay the rent and how to navigate the city according to the exact map of the central city. In fact, all of these processes are very simple, even for people who are not used to using pedaling. Only if adjust the strength of the leg and let the pedaling system move, you can enjoy the beauty of the city.

However, this scene reminds me of the inevitable misuse of a tool, mainly because it does not understand its characteris and usage specifications. I found that the ebike assist bicycle, and also known the pedelec smart bicycle.

If the ebike stopped suddenly, this requires a quick response and to stabilize the bicycle. In some special circumstances, such as driving on slippery roads, tram tracks or raining, high speed driving can cause serious falls compared to ordinary bicycles.

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Lithium Battery Electric Bike

There is a small lithium battery electric bike with a weight og only about 16 kilograms. The size of battery just likes a book. It can be carried in the bag and can be charged by the computer. The weight of same power of lead battery is 15 kg. The power performance of lithium battery ebike is similar to lead battery. After charging six to eight hours, it can run 30~45 kilometers depending on the battery capacity, and the weight is only about 1/5 of the lead-acid battery. The greatest advantage of lithium battery electric bike is long service life. A set of batteries can be used for four to five years.

Energy saving and environmental protection is the development direction of ebike. With the advancement of technology, lithium battery electric bikes will replace lead-acid battery e bike. From the experience of developed countries such as Europe and the United States, lithium battries are the future development direction of electric bicycles.

What Do You Think About the Electric Bicycle?

What is a lithium battery High Power MTB Mountain Ebike? Lithium battery ebike refers to an electric bike that uses lithium battery as an auxiliary energy source with motor, a controller, a battery, a brake lever and the LCD.

The battery provides the energy of the electric bike. At present, the lithium batteru ebike uses the latest lithium-ion battery. Usage tip: the main control board of the controller is the main circuit of ebike, which has a large amount of heat. Therefore, do not park the electric bike in the sunshine, and do not expose it to rain for a long time.

The controller is the component to control the speed of the motor and is the core of the electric system of the ebike. Intelligent controller also has a variety of riding modes and self-checking functions for ebike components. The controller is the core component of electric bike energy management and various control signal processing.

The handle, brake and other parts are the signal input of the controller. The turn signal is a drive signal for rotation of the electric bike motor.

The most import accessory for ebike is the motor. The motor of an electric bike basically determines the performance and grade of the electric bicycle.

How about the Future of Electric Bike?

Recently, the media is also arguing whether urban electric bike should be banned in certain areas. This problem has plagued managers of many large and medium-sized city for some time now. One of the main reasons why many cities prohibit the use of electric bikes on certain road sections is that electric bicycles are small but small, so traffic accidents are often prone to occur.

Electric bikes are the most economical and convenient travel tools and management tools for management tools for grassroots citizens. In terms of travel, the public transport system in many cities has improved a lot undoubtedly. Actually, many people cannot afford the price.

Government's ban on electric bikes has caused many inconveniences for grassroots citizens to travel and small businesses. As a result, many people have taken risks and sneaked awasy the use of ebike under the ban of the government.

Maintance of Pedal Assist Bike

Road Condition

Pedal Assist Bike are not suitable for driving on poor roads or steep roads. If there are more uphills on the way to work, we will find that charging a mileage will be much less than on a flat road. When you are starting, climbing, carrying or driving against the wind, please use the pedal. This can prolong the service life of battery and motor.

Load

In daily life, many consumers would like to use fat tire electric bikes to carry heavy loads or people. This is convenience, but also has unsafe factors. Loas has a great impact on the service life of electric bike. Generally, the 48V, 12AH electric bike is not affected by ordinary and small goods or Children. If you need to carry heavy objects or adults, it is recommended to use a more powerful electric vehicle.

Zero Star

The so-called “zero start” is the direct electric start at rest. It looks very convenient. In fact, this will damage battery. Starting current will damage the battery. How to avoid this condition? It is best to use pedal bedore starting, and then gradually accelerate the power. Some products have slow start or current limiting design, it mainly protect the battery and motor.

Expect for normal usage, daily maintenance is also important. Good daily maintenance will healp to extend the service of the electric bike. For example, you can clean the dust on the surface, and oiled lubricant to the shaft, chain, flywheel and brake line of the front and rear axles, and reqularly maintain it in a professional repair center.

User Guide of Ebike

In the United States, the popularity of electric bicycles is not high. Ebike just mainly a leisure tool. Uniform federal law requires that the maximum speed of an electric bicycle is less than 32 kilometers per hour. Riding electric bike is strictly restricted, and some states still probibit ebike. Compared with other countries that require a driver’s license, the EU has different requlations for low-speed electric vehicles: in some European countries, driving some low-speed electric bike does not require a driver’s license according to different weight, speed and power.

Because of the terrain, the cities of Australian are mostly not flat enough and have a steep slope. They are not suitable for human to ride bike. The electric bicycles are very convenient and have developed rapidly in Australia. Australian law ruled that electric bicycles woth an output of more than 200 watts are included in the scooter. The rules of governance are the same as motorcycles. Electric bike must be registered, and drivers must hold a driver’s license and wear a helmet.

Electric bikes are considered to be the same vehicles as cars and motorcycles in Canada and are subject to the same traffic rules.

In Canada, riding an electric mountain bike is age-restricted and must be worn while helmet while riding. In some some provinces, Using larger electric bike requires a driver’s license, and the ebike needs to be licensed and insured. It makes the ebike more manageable. In addition, since every bike is registered, the theft of electric bicycles is rare in Canada. 

Electric Assist Bicycles Have Become A Hot Spot

Electric assist bicycles have become a hot spot in foreign countries, and they have a good discussion on various social networking sites, and the sales is grow significantly/ however, there is too little research data on electric bicycles, and it is impossible to analyze what’s the viewpoint of electric bike for people. A survey of electric bicycles in the United States by the National Institute of Transportation and Community Research can understand customers’ viewpoint of electric bike.

The Survey asked about 1,800 electric bike riders in North Amercia, and most of them are in the United States. The Content includes why they purchased the electric bicycle, what conditions they will use ebike and so on.

According to the report, men accounted for 70% of the majority of electric bike buyers and 29% of female(the rest did not specify gender). Here are some reasons why people purchase electric assist bike. For example, it is easier to ride in a hilly area. They can ride a longer distance than a bicycle. Riding can overcome obstacles. Even some customers are just for entertainment purposes.

Twenty-eight percent of the respondents said that they specifically purchased electric bicycles to replace car trips. Others point out that it is more desirable to adopt a car-free lifestyle, such as using electric bicycles to carry goods or children, avoiding parking difficulties and traffi jams. Riding electric bicycles is more effective.

Electric bicycles are not only about practicality. About a quarter of people said that they wanted to work out on electric bikes.

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. 

Shared Electric Bike

Today, we will discuss the characteristics and differences of shared electric bicycles, bikes and electrombile.

The popularity of shared electric bicycles will reduce the environmental problem of electrombile. The scrap batteries of electrombile are very difficult to solve. The root of this problem cannot be collected effectively. We know that the environmental protection of industrial waste disposal is very easy to solve. The responsible party of shared electric bikes service is operating enterprise. For scrapped batteries, it is very easy to collect to centralized impressing.

The popularity of shared electric bikes will reduce fire accidents. There are very serious fire accident which is caused by electrombile in Shanghai. The shared electric bicycle centralized charging facility must strict inspections of safety and fire protection. Centralized charging improves charging effeciency, and fire accidents can be eliminated.

With the popularity of shared city electric bikes, the number of electrombiles in stock will be greatly reduced. 

Shared Electric Bike in City

In Changzhou, Youon bicycles are very popular, and now they have began to shared electric bike. It is called pedal electric cycle in Europe and the United Sates. City  Electric bike is a personal transport which has the lightness and convenience of a bicycle and can effectively compensate for the burden of bicycles. It regarded traditional bicycle as basics and dynamical system with motor and battery is core.

The biggest difference from electromobile is that it does not adjust the power level by turning the handle. For electric bike, people need to use the sensor to feel the strength of the rider’s footsteps. It cannot be driven by electromobile with pure power-operated, but it needs a “human+electric power”. Why do we develop shared electric bike?

The ride experience of fat tire electric bike will be very good. There are two obvious and insurmountable shortcomings of shared bicycles. At first, shared bicycles commonly used solid tires to reduce maintenance costs, so its riding experience is very poor. Generally speaking, it is unbearable for people to ride more than two kilometers. At second, there is no effective continuous power supply, which affects the reliability of GPS positioning and intelligent information. Sharing electric bike solves these problems very well.

Shared electric bike is a vehicle that is specially designed to meet the short-distance travel of urban residents, and has obvious differences from ordinary electric bicycles. The characteristic of shared electric bike is that if people do not pedal, the bike would not move.

Chinese Market of Electric Bike

It has been 23 years since the first fat tire electric bike was launched in 1993. As the birthplace, electric bikes have a very high degree of popularity in Japan. As a bicycle culture center, the sales of Europe have been deteriorating in recent years, only electric bikes have grown against the trend. Along with Chinese urbanization and consumption upgrading, the development of electric bike and potential markets are also widely expected.

Electric bike refers to a bicycle which equipped qith a motor and pedal. Generally speaking, electric bike is bicycle plus PAS. PAS makes cycling easier.

Why is city electric bike not popular in China? The reason is lack of core technology. PAS has a high technical threshold. Japan has always been led by Yamaha, Panasonic, and Europe is Bosch, Brose and other enterprises. China lacks such famous companies. We all know that the price od PAS is 6000RMB. On the other hand, the technology of electromobile is cheaper than electric bike. Chinese people are more willing to buy electromobile. For Chinese consumers, electric bikes are still new. No doubt about that Chinese market is big in the furture. 

Electric Bike also is called Power Assist Bike

Electric Bike is a new type of two-wheeled vehicle with a shape similar to a bicycle. It regards battery as an auxiliary power source. Electric bike also has a motor and a power assist system, which can realize a new type of vehicle with human riding and motor assisting integration.

In the field of assist bicycles, the motor installation positions are mainly divided into two types. One is a center, which the motor is installed in the middle position of the vehicle body, and we called it as middle motor. The middle motor is connected to the frame and transmits power through the chain and the rear wheel. At the same time, the two sides of the motor are equipped with pedals. Rider can ride the pedals to achieve human riding without power. Hub motor is installed in the hub of the electric bike. Compared with the hub motor, middle motor has great advantages in the terms of technology and performance.

fat tire electric bike

The biggest difference between electric bike and bike is the motor, battery and controller. Power assist bike does not have a control valve(ordinary acceleration handle).

About Electric Bike

Fat Tire Electric bike originally originated in Japan and developped in Europe. According to EU regulations, related products are generally divided into three categories: Pedelec, S-Pedelec and ebike.

With different power-assisting modes, oedelec can meet the special requirements of different users. Usually, the gears are divided by the strength of the boost, and some brands can distinguish the gear according to application scene, such as flat road, off-road, climbing and downhill. Of course, the degree of assist will affect the cruising range of the motor boost and the energy consumption of the battery.

city electric bike

S-Pedelec is a high-speed model of the electric bike, and also known as the high-speed assist electric bicycle. It works in the same way as a regular electric bike. It is also necessary to step on the manpower, and the motor will give the boost. The difference is that S-Pedelec has higher rated power and power-off threshold.

The third category is mountain electric bike. The biggest difference between assist bicycle is that the vehicle will be ridden by the motor even if the pedal is not stepped on. In Europe, electric bikes are in the category of light motorcycles, which require insurance and licensing.

No matter what brand of electric power assist system, the essence is to convert electric energy into kinetic energy and apply it to the bicycle transmission system. It could make riding easier and less laborious. The electric power system is essentially a sensor, controller and motor.

Intelligentization will be a Trend of Electric Bike

Intelligentization has become an important direction of product upgrade and technological breakthrough for electric bike industry. At present, many electric bike companies have launched products that can interact with humans through mobile APP. Interactivity, intelligence and entertainment provide users unprecedednted expereince.
With the development of society, electric bike is not only simple means of transportation, consumers have put more stringent requirements on the user experience and performance of electric bike products. The era of smart lithium electric bike has arrived. With the emergence of new battery and motor control technologies, conventional electric bikes have not met the market requirements for new products.
From the perspective of market supply, the investmet in the electric bike industry is good. As the demand for electric bicycles continues to grow and sales continue to expand, existing electric bicycle manufacturers continue to expand their production capacity, and the influx of high-quality bicycle or motorcycle manufacturers will drive the growth of electric bicycle production.
New industries and production growth in the industry will lead to more fierce competition in the industry, prompting China's electric bicycle manufacturers to continuously improve their technological level, develop new products that meet market and consumer needs, and attach importance to brand building to enhance consumer awareness. It is necessary to further strengthen management, control product production costs, and embark on the brand development path centered on product innovation. Intelligentization Fat Tire Electric Bike will be a Trend.