Recent content by Dorkyman

Bought a high-capacity Lectric battery a few months back during the Black Friday sale. We have two XP2.0 st bikes, very happy with them and the standard batteries fit perfectly. The new high-capacity battery has to be "forced" to connect when unfolding. In other words, there is considerable...

I contacted Lectric customer support, and they referred me to a technical person at the company. He emailed to me a test format. Basically, fully charge the battery, note the voltage, then ride one level mile out and then back on PAS 2 without throttle application and free-wheeling the pedals...

I have two XPst bikes, one with the 500Wh battery and the other with a new 670 Wh battery. Just noticed that under full power (18 amps) the voltage drop from both batteries is about 5v. In other words, if resting voltage is 48v, then full power drops that to 43v. Is this typical? Seems like...

Hi, happy owner of a couple of XP step-throughs bought a couple of years ago. Great machines. I took advantage of the Black Friday pricing last week to get a high-capacity (14AH) replacement for one of the ebikes (took less than a week to get!). On the website it says it is 2271 UL certified...

The "Comet." First commercial jet, a few years ahead of the Boeing 707. Engines were inside the wing root, so no room for further growth. But the killer defect (literally) was that the windows had square corners, rather than the oval windows now common. When the aluminum skin was stressed...

All "500w" means is that this is the maximum CONTINUOUS power rating (so the motor won't overheat) but all motors can output far more for a couple of minutes. Just multiply the battery voltage by the peak controller current to get the maximum output.. So if your previous bike could output 800w...

Saw a 2000GT many years ago parked at Longo Toyota, the largest Toyota dealership in the world and located in SoCal. But the ultimate car to me is the convertible version specially made by Toyota for James Bond in "You Only Live Twice." Seems Sean Connery was too tall to fit inside, so they...

If I rode at night very much I'd probably opt for this one. Runs off my 48v battery, so no need to charge a separate battery. And apparently VERY bright. Very inexpensive also. What I don't know is whether the controller on my ebike could handle the increased current, of if I would need to...

Hey guys, no need to incite potential flame wars here on this very mellow site. How about we keep politics and such confined to a new politics-bashing thread? And goes for both the D's and the R's.

From what I've read, yeah, it hurts the battery a bit to keep it at a full charge, but so what? Range anxiety would be far more detrimental to my heart than the thought of having to buy a replacement battery in 8 years rather than 10. In the non-riding season, though, suggest you run it down...

If you're in the market for a Tesla, now's the time. Hertz is selling off a whole bunch of various models, some for as low as $21K. And the CEO has resigned. One of the articles says that maintenance and repair on Hertz's EV fleet ran much higher than on the ICE fleet, I would imagine due to...

This topic can easily turn into a flame war, which does little good for either point of view. I'd gently suggest that the rate of growth is rapidly declining, and manufacturers are no longer claiming they will ditch ICE vehicles. Secondly, while there is a cost savings on "fuel" there is a...

Article today on CNBC on how "EV Euphoria is dead." All the automakers that said last year that they would stop ICE vehicle production are now frantically backtracking. I have a Lexus hybrid (made by Toyota) and have admired Toyota senior execs for holding their ground regarding their disdain...

Many don't use PAS function at all, just throttle. You can go into the menu to turn it off completely, then just treat the ebike as a 7-speed with a 1hp motor, controlled by the twist throttle, just like on a real scooter. And if you want to go a particular speed, just hold it with the...

Are you within the weight limit for the bike? Secondly, you say the bike perform normally under just pedal power? Then the implication is that the motor somehow is causing this--but how is that possible? At first I thought perhaps it was a wheel out of balance due to the goop inside the inner...