Batteries are at the heart of many aspects of modern lives. They power our phones, from 2035 they'll power our cars - and quite often they power our bikes too. Every battery does the same basic thing, but the difference between them is huge. In the same way that LEDs quickly became the only option for bike lights, lithium-ion is now completely dominant when it comes to e-bike batteries. (Pi-Pop's supercapacitors being an exception.) It's the same technology you’ll find everywhere from your ...| electric bike reviews, buying advice and news - ebiketips
Bordeaux based Gouach is to make its “fireproof” e-bike battery directly available to consumers. The Gouach Infinite Battery is said to be compatible with 90% of e-bikes and is designed to be repairable by owners themselves. As we reported last year, with more and more owners finding themselves in the position of needing to replace worn-out old e-bike batteries, Gouach has decided to challenge this model of obsolescence with a solderless design that allows worn-out cells to be easily repl...| electric bike reviews, buying advice and news - ebiketips
With e-bike and e-scooter fire safety hitting the headlines recently (including several times here at ebiketips), you might be forgiven for thinking that light electric vehicles are inherently dangerous. That's far from the truth. As we noted in our article on e-bike batteries, "... just 0.011% of bikes and scooters on the market set on fire last year." That said, there is clearly an emerging problem at the cut price end of the market with cheap and potentially unreliable batteries and charge...| electric bike reviews, buying advice and news - ebiketips
Shift4Good, the global impact venture capital fund focused on sustainable transportation, recently announced a major investment in lithium-ion battery repair and maintenance. A round of equity funding that also included Fair Capital Impact Fund and Goeie Grutten Impact Fund has resulted in a €6m investment in Dutch battery repair specialists, Nowos. Founded in 2019, Nowos started by repairing batteries for e-bikes, e-mopeds, and scooters from major European operators including Swapfiets, Do...| electric bike reviews, buying advice and news - ebiketips