Electrobike Pi Gives You 3.14 Reasons to Get Rid of Your Car

Hop on the Electrobike Pi , and through the courtesy of your two feet and its 1hp motor , no one will ever be capable to blame you for global thawing again . Three reasons ? It ’s efficient , it ’s playfulness , it ’s socially creditworthy and it looks cool . Okay , perhaps the cool look is the “ .14 ” understanding . It still has a carbon footprint ( a minuscular 210 pounds a twelvemonth if you ride it 100 miles a week ) , but reduce that routine to zero ( for $ 1800 extra ) by impound its elephantine arch - shaped solar charger , and after an eight - hour Clarence Shepard Day Jr. in the sun ( or 2.5 hours plug in ) that battery is good for another 25 miles , even if you do n’t wheel at all .

allow ’s get this straight : In its stock form , this is not exactly a racing cycle — its top speed using just its nickel hydride battery power its 750 - watt galvanizing motor is only 20 mph , and it weighs about the same as an anvil , a hefty 58 pounding without your butt gracing its seat . But it ’s effective , working like a hybrid car with its flywheel that charges up the battery when you apply the bike ’s brakes . We ’re also hear you’re able to skip up the thing with some aftermarket modifications , goose its top speed up to 46 mph . No word on how long the electric battery will last at that hasty clip .

Now the unfit news : You ’ll drop $ 7,500 for the Electrobike Pi , and extra batteries , each good for 200 charge cycles , are $ 750 . To be useable at Design Within Reach studios in the United States , there will be just 500 of these galvanizing bikes sold . Could be the first hatful of many . certain beats a Segway . [ LA Times , viaBorn Rich ]

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