Have you had enough of increasing gas prices and auto insurance rates? Are you sick of wasting a large part of your day stuck in traffic crawling at a snails pace during your commute to and from work?
Are you concerned about global warming and want to do your part to reduce your carbon footprint?
Well you are about to find the answer to all these problems AND put some fun back into your daily commute by learning how to build your own fast, economical electric vehicle.
Maybe you have tried pedaling your bike to work but found it just takes to long and you arrive all sweaty with nowhere to take a shower when you finally do make it there.
Then after a long, hard day at work you just don't have the energy or desire to pedal all the way home again.
Or perhaps you have purchased a prebuilt electric bike or electric scooter but find it extremely underpowered and the batteries run flat before you reach your destination.
Well I am about to change the way you think about electric bikes!
My name is Greg Davey, better know as the "Mad Scientist" by friends and family even though I have no electrical or engineering background. I, like many of you, decided I wanted a better form of transportation.
I wanted to save money on gas and reduce my carbon footprint. Sitting in my car for up to an hour stuck in traffic each day for a drive that should only take 15 minutes was not acceptable anymore.
You may be wondering what makes me an expert in electric bikes. Well back in 2005 I spent several weeks researching electric bikes on the internet and decided to built one using an old mountain bike I had.
I purchased all the parts I needed from a local ebike store and had the bike up and running in a few days.The first time I took it out for a test ride I almost crashed because the bike handled so bad. It was several days before I got used to it.
I eventually managed to ride the bike to work but it handled terrible at speeds over 20MPH.
The brakes all but stopped working when they became wet, the power would turn on and off randomly because of poor connectors and the batteries quickly drained slowing the bike barely getting me home.
I even had to push the bike home several times because something failed.
This bike was very scary to ride because it was so unstable but I used it for over a year until the batteries finally packed it in.
I loved the idea of riding an electric bike to work because it was cost effective and I avoided all the traffic but it needed some dramatic improvements.
I went back to the drawing board and painstakingly researched bicycle geometry, suspension forks, batteries, battery management systems, motors, controllers, and any other parts I would need to build the ultimate electric bike.
Then I started testing different bike parts and electrical components picking the ones that worked the best and assembled them from the ground up building the perfect electric bike.
I now have a 100% electric vehicle that I use as a replacement for my car. Not only do I get to work faster than it used to take me to drive, it only costs me pennies a day to recharge the bike.