by admin | Nov 15, 2012 | Ask Optibike!, Jim's Blog, Optibike News
Exert from “The Power of Electric Bikes” by Jim Turner BATTERIES The Battery is The Gas Tank The key to any electric vehicle is the battery and how much energy it can hold. The battery is the gas tank. The battery holds energy. Power accelerates the car, but the...
by admin | Oct 14, 2012 | Blogs by Optibike Team, How do we do it?, Jim's Blog, Optibike News
A battery can easily outlast the vehicle it is in. Let’s assume you own an electric car. If your car can travel 300 miles per charge and you can recharge it 1000 times, that battery pack will last 300,000 miles. Also, after the 100 cycles, the battery is not dead, it...
by admin | Sep 14, 2012 | Blogs by Optibike Team, Jim's Blog
I always love an adventure with my two boys. The arrival of the US Pro Challenge in Boulder on August 25th was to present one of those opportunities. I had never watched a Pro cycling event live, in my life. I had watched the Tour de France on TV, but live was always...
by admin | Sep 14, 2012 | Ask Optibike!, Blogs by Optibike Team, Jim's Blog
As a consumer, the new world of electric vehicles continues to require us to learn a new vocabulary. Last issue, we learned about how volts and amps are like water flow. In this issue we will learn how to determine the size of an Electric vehicle “gas tank”. The...
by admin | Jul 30, 2012 | Ask Optibike!, Fitness, How do we do it?, Jim's Blog
After first investigating hub motors in 1996, Optibike developed this firstmid drive unit 12 years ago in 1997. This unit featured 24 volts with a 15amp -hr lead acid battery and about 350 watts of power. The motor was offboard on the crank axle and drove...
by admin | Mar 14, 2012 | How do we do it?, Jim's Blog, Newsletter Archive
The Optibike MBB is the highest performance and most efficient electric assist propulsion system unit in the world today. The Optibike patented Motorized Bottom Bracket (MBB) drive system gives higher top speed and steeper hill climbing ability than hub motors having...