Litehiker
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Most of us with e-bikes have likely read or heard about the frantic search automakers are undertaking currently to make "solid state' batteries for their vehicles. Japanese makers are underwriting Panasonic, Korean Hyundai/Kia with Samsung and VW/Porsche/Audi with an American company.
Q: Will any of this new tech "trickle down" to e-bike batteries? We can only pray, light votive candles and make burnt offerings (i.e. cook dinner) in hopes that it happens and we have lighter batteries that are faster charging, greater range and, dare we hope, less expensive. Or will it be "pick one"?
Anyway gentle riders, let us make a 2023 Christmas/New Year wish that this comes true and we MTB riders can get these Unobtanium batteries for our bikes as our Li ion batteries gradually crap out.
And for those of us who car camp with our E-MTBs we can pray that new battery tech also finds its way into our "solar generator" batteries.
We remote E-MTBers already have an extremely efficient solar blanket (to charge those "generator" batteries and thus our bike batteries) in the 220 watt Off Grid TREK unit.
"Technology marches on". EXCELSIOR! EUREKA! and all that.
Q: Will any of this new tech "trickle down" to e-bike batteries? We can only pray, light votive candles and make burnt offerings (i.e. cook dinner) in hopes that it happens and we have lighter batteries that are faster charging, greater range and, dare we hope, less expensive. Or will it be "pick one"?
Anyway gentle riders, let us make a 2023 Christmas/New Year wish that this comes true and we MTB riders can get these Unobtanium batteries for our bikes as our Li ion batteries gradually crap out.
And for those of us who car camp with our E-MTBs we can pray that new battery tech also finds its way into our "solar generator" batteries.
We remote E-MTBers already have an extremely efficient solar blanket (to charge those "generator" batteries and thus our bike batteries) in the 220 watt Off Grid TREK unit.
"Technology marches on". EXCELSIOR! EUREKA! and all that.