Affordable, Powerful Electric Scooters Coming Soon
VentureBeat reports that PowerGenix has developed a nickel zinc (NiZn) battery that has 35 percent higher power and energy density than a nickel metal hydride (NiMH) battery (used in hybrid vehicles), but is half the cost of a lithium-ion battery.
This is great news for scooter fanatics, who right now are forced to choose between cheap scooters with lead-acid batteries and expensive scooters with powerful lithium-ion batteries.
A bike or scooter using the PowerGenix’ NiZn battery has enough energy to run errands or commute to work— but comes with a cheaper price tag than the lithium-ion powered Zero.
PowerGenix recently inked a deal with Veloteq to produce scooters using their NiZn battery. Look for the scooters to be marketed initially in Europe and the US next year.
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Jock, this was measured using a kill-a-watt meter plugged into the outlet so thats accounting for loss in AC-DC conversion (AC to DC adapters are notorious for being lossy) as well as loss just from the battery itself so not too bad at all all things considered.
I could use one of these
I’ve got an Oxygen Lepton-e electric scooter, and I love it. Insurance is $450 a year for ridiculously complete coverage and it costs me about $10 a month to charge. I drive it everywhere I go. Love it.
The bikes are very cheap to charge and quick to charge. I take it to work and back (20 km trip) and is only use a little over 1/4 of my battery life. These bikes do not require a license in Canada. Because it has the actual pedals it is considered a power-assisted bike. Not a scooter. In Canada the law is anything over 35CC must have a license. Please check with you city what the laws are because they do vary.