Would you ride a Hybrid?

[accident]

Sooner or later in the future if the green party have there way.
People will be walking down the road and let off an innocent fart , That will be a ten dollar fine!

[crash harry]

haha, many topics on kb will bring out the hate; politics, acc, change, bikes ......

A good idea, I have though about adding a 2kw generator on the pillion seat of my electric once I get it running to add to the range, but I think your idea sounds a bit more professional. I agree a 10kw generator is a good size to start, would work well with an Etek-rt, 72V brushed dc motor with 20hp peak and 10 continuous, and possibly some supercaps though I don't know bugger all about them, have a chat about it with the techs at http://electricmotorcycleforum.com

One hole I do see, is if the bike is meant for commuters, what is the advantage of a hybrid, over a plug in electric?

Good point. Mostly convenience I think. It takes while to charge an EV, a hybrid fills up as quickly as you can pour the petrol into the tank.

[MarkH]

Good point. Mostly convenience I think. It takes while to charge an EV, a hybrid fills up as quickly as you can pour the petrol into the tank.

But for commuting, couldn't the electric just charge up while you sleep? For a cruisey tour of the country the hybrid might be better than the electric, but for the daily commute the electric would be plenty convenient enough.

Also hybrids still burn petrol, plug in bikes can be charged from off-peak hydro generated electricity.

[bogan]

Good point. Mostly convenience I think. It takes while to charge an EV, a hybrid fills up as quickly as you can pour the petrol into the tank.

Yeh the charge times of an ev is still quite large, but for commuter work you can just plug into a three point outlet when you park up a night, this assumes you have a garage or off street parking, also you could do charge it at work instead.
Reminds me bout something i heard on the ev site.

This guy made a plug in electric car which he charged at his work (a university), he notice he had heaps of excess capacity after his daily commute, so he built a system to take the power out of his car to power his house at night, i think now he plans to increase the battery capacity in his ev so he can on-sell this electricity to his neighbours. I wonder if he realises that hes just stealing power from his work