http://www.electric-bikes.com/go-hub.htm

This seems like a good kit. Still feels a little expensive at $575 for 19mph. The cool thing is, I’d be able to pick up a cheap bike and add the kit pretty easily. So, at worst I’m looking at < $700 for the electric bike piece of the puzzle for a grand total of approximately $1400 for the whole solar/electric bike set up. Pretty good.

Now that, I’m learning a bit more, I’m going to see if I can figure out what the bare minimum solar set up is that I’ll need in order to charge the bike batteries. I suppose it would also make sense, just to get two sets of bike batteries and rotate to the bike. Going solar panel to storage battery to bike battery seems like it might lose something along the way. I’m guessing this will save some dough.

[tags]urbaneco, transportation, bicycle, commuting, solar bike[/tags]