Electric Motorcycle Conversion
A Resource for Building Your Own Electric Motorcycle
How to Build an Electric Motorcycle
Aug 10th
The Goal of this project was to convert a classic motorcycle into a clean, quiet, electric motorcycle that would run on battery power and reduce the amount of automobile pollution caused by my short to mid-range driving trips. I started this project after watching ”Who Killed The Electric Car”, realizing that I was 1 of the 80% of Americans that drives less than 20 miles a day. Frist I considered a car conversion, but it fell outside my budget. So after some inspiration from electric motorcycles conversions on EV ALBUM, I thought a motorcycle sounded fun and economical.
So fast forward 4 months, and I now have built the ”Electric Dream”! Clean, Quiet, and best of all not a drop of Gas! Continue reading and I will take you step-by-step through the conversion process.
German Pedal Power
Jul 17th
Check out the Pedal powered eRockit, German engineering at its finest, accents and all.
No need to charge your batteries anymore…Kinda
Jul 10th
No need to charge your batteries anymore… Nikola Tesla is best known for his remarkable statements regarding the wireless transmission of electrical power. His first efforts towards this end started in 1891 and were intended to simply “disturb the electrical equilibrium in the nearby portions of the earth… to bring into operation in any way some instrument.” In other words the object of his experiments was simply to produce effects locally and detect them at a distance. By 1899 the electrical potential of his transmitter had increased to the point that more room was needed for the sake of safety. This and other considerations led him to temporarily shift his wireless experiments to a location just outside of Colorado Springs.
At this Colorado “Experimental Station” Tesla had some early success in wireless power transmission. One photograph shows that “a small incandescent lamp was lighted by means of a resonant circuit grounded on one end, all the energy being drawn through the earth [from a nearby transmitter].” In 1907 he even went as far as to make this statement: