Lithium Vivi RX-10S: Panasonic’s Li-Ion battery powered bicycle
One of the greatest challenges of incorporating Li-Ion has been trying to make it stable and make sure that it is not volatile when exposed to air. Modern science has accomplished a large part of that and precisely because of that the technology is trickling down in to various other gadgets. Now bicycle is going to get the extra legs that it might badly need at times with the Lithium-Ion battery power that it is fitted with.
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd will release the Lithium Vivi RX-10S, an electric bicycle capable of recharging a Li-ion secondary battery using a regenerative braking system. When riding on the course under conditions set by the company, which includes up slopes and downward slopes, the assisted travel range was reportedly extended to approximately 125km with the use of the regenerative braking system, whereas the assisted travel range is only about 90km without using the system. This simple means that every instant you break, you store some energy in the bike.
The new electric bicycle has a function to change over the regenerative braking force in two levels using brake levers on the right and left sides. When slightly applying the brake on one side, the motor generates half the amount of the maximum regenerative power. By squeezing both brake levers at the same time, the maximum power can be generated. The bike is also something special in the fact that it looks like a model from the early 90’s or even late 80’s. Something that is refreshingly new!
