I know it's not exactly a exact science when assessing mileage per charge. ut, having said that..... I'd be very interested to know what people are getting from their lithium batteries and nimh batteries. You know, a general indication of what sort of speed and how many miles or kilometres on a full charge.
I find that, in a flat county, doing 30-50mph through towns and countryside, with no headwind and no ills, I'm getting about 20 miles from a full charge on my nimh batteries. Do people this is reasonable? I weight 13 stone.
I find the vectrix immensely useful, even with a twenty mile range. Conversion to lithium is clearly expensive and I'm wondering just how significantly increased the range would be on my bike, under my riding conditions.
So, if people were willing to post here, it would be useful. An idea of the terrain, rider weight, battery type and range would give some anecdotal evidence for me to ponder!
I get about 35km (40 at the most) from a charge with a mix of 60 and 80kph speed limits. If I sit on 100kph on a freeway the range is about 20km.
Still on original NiMh batteries with 14,000km. The range has never really been much better than that. Maybe 5km more.
Whilst the range is adequate for my needs most of the time, there's one regular ride that's 19km and not charging at both ends would be just a bit of a risk.
I weigh 88kg.
I get exactly the same range as Aircon but my average speeds are higher.
Also NiMh with 35.000km and The Laird firmware
Weight is 85kg
Here is my ride to the office:
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=209968140978079112541.0004d268cb29bf3c29d44
Gemiddelde snelheid: 62,23 km/u (38,7 mi/u)
Gemiddelde verplaatsingssnelheid: 67,71 km/u (42,1 mi/u)
Max. snelheid: 106,20 km/u (66,0 mi/u)
and back home:
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=209968140978079112541.0004d268cd526d60891cc
Gemiddelde snelheid: 66,20 km/u (41,1 mi/u)
Gemiddelde verplaatsingssnelheid: 74,33 km/u (46,2 mi/u)
Max. snelheid: 105,30 km/u (65,4 mi/u)
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I kept a log and average about 25 miles a day which is about 4.5 kW worth of charge, again, on average. This is only eyeballing the numbers, didn't work up a spreadsheet. The most I saw glancing at the log is 30+ miles taking 6.3 kW to recharge. The problem with the charge is that if I am not there when the charger finishes it could still be taking power that adds to what the Kill-a-Watt monitors but has no impact on the charge cycle (hate that). Many nights I am coming out to ride the bike the next day and use the bike's delay feature to have it finish charging just before I go, but I have it set that if I have an EQ cycle it will still finish before I head out. This means most recharge numbers are high. On days that I do not go out the next day (days off or freezing conditions like this morning) it may sit on the charge way longer than it needs, makes it difficult to get hard numbers on milage.
-Randy
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I also own a 2018 Tesla Model 3 and a 2012 Mitsubishi iMiev
My commute is 24 miles of mixed dual carriageway and town roads. I manage it on a single charge of my nimh battery.
I have a Vectrix that I converted to Lithium Ion. My range when travelling at 80 km/hr on country roads is 190 km. I have ridden from Croydon to Tarralgon, Victoria, Australia in one trip. Riding at 100 km/hr the range drops to 110 km. The extra drag at 100 km/hr is significant. In suburban areas where average speeds are 60 km/hr, the range would be more. I don't know as I haven't ever run to flat. I did the conversion 2 years ago to make the bike more useful. Bike has done 19,000 km. The battery has same range as when converted.
Croydon to Traralgon in one go? That is quite an epic journey on an electric maxi-scooter :-O
My rides:
2017 Zero S ZF6.5 11kW, erider Thunder 5kW
Hi!
How do you convert your V to Lithium ???
Please give us more info ;)
Thanks
Mario
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Details of my Vectrix are on EV Album. http://www.evalbum.com/4465 I will talk about range. If you want to talk about conversions use another thread. My bike is 90 Amp/Hr or 11.6 KwHr and therefore the range. The original battery for The VX-1 is 3.7 KwHr. I have converted other bikes from 60 to 110 Amp/Hr. Li-Ion has an energy of density of 170 wattHour/Kg where as LiFePo4 has 90 wattHour/Kg for CALB cells. Li-Ion will give more mileage than LiFePo4 or Ni-Mh. Li-Ion are also physically smaller and 110 Amp/Hr will fit into the Vectrix battery compartment without any mods.
Here is a link to the largest LiFePo4 conversion http://www.evalbum.com/4541 It required building a new battery cover and bodywork. It achieves 140 Km at highway speed.