Why bother with it?

I saw something on a thread recently and thought I should respond. Then I gave it a second thought and decided not to because the author still wouldn't get it. So I thought one more time so let me just say this, if everyone was the same there would only be one type car and one size engine and in any color you wanted as long as the color you wanted was black. Oh we had that once. Then it was get a horse that was heard. Innovation like crap happens like it or not.

Yes ebikes are pretty slow for the most part, but you can make one as fast as a gas bike. It's expensive, and a lot of trouble, but you can do it. Yes, it would also be a moped in he eyes of the law but hey that's okay, because it can be done now.

Range, you can carry about half a gallon of gas in a typical gasoline bike. If you pay enough, you can get a few litho packs and do that fifty mile thing. Yes it would be a pain but that's today. The things Ebike people are doing will pave the way for that kind of thing to be common one day. Probably pretty soon if Ecars hit the road in any real numbers. Battery swap stations very well might spring up beside today's gasoline pumps at the corner convenience store.

So the innovators and experimenters of today are the early automobile owners of the 1900s. Yes all my bikes are black.

actually i do remember reading about the Edison e car. And of course I do remember trolleys. Now there is an idea that could come back with the wires buried in the street. I heard there is a wireless charger for some cell phones. You just put the phone beside the charger and turn it on. no direct connection. So if that were possible for cars cities could one day have a buried power line for them to hum along. With just enough power storage to get to the out of the way places that don't have the charge line in the street.

Who knows what is possible if people keep plugging away at it. I wish I was smart enough to work out a battery solution. I have a heck of a bike now. I rode it today from my house to the home depot and back just like a motorcycle. No pedal not even to start it off. I ran with the traffic at one point because I needed to be in an outside lane so I goosed it. I was very much surprised.

The problem is that this kind of riding eats up the power big time. And even when SLA batteries are still above shut off voltage, the amps are so far down they are practically useless. I much prefer this type of bike to the gas ones. I might be struggling with the batteries till the end of my days.