Buy Scooters the Right way

By Ronald Freed
Escooters have a big advantage over the older Electric Cars.

While my 17 year old friend was peddling his bike passed the Seven Eleven he ran across an older gentleman who was one of the first people in LA to purchase an electric car.  Being a caddy for one of his friends at the country club the two struck up a conversation and quickly remembered the event occurring at the club.  The youth asked for a ride but it was declined because of an interesting problem,

The electric car already went 25 miles that day and although they could get to the club and the event they would not have enough electricity for the return trip.  The teen scratched his head and then whipped out hip iphone to browse for electric scooters.   Pretty funny that a $400 scooter can get a job done that a pricey electric car had to decline.

One of the main concerns of any electric vehicle is the battery pack.
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Lets get some idea what a Lithium ion system is. They were a
way for Ford, Chrysler (GEM), and GM to give-away or sell below cost
to meet the CARB mandated quota of EVs. These are costly, but
inexpensively designed/made 72V PbSO4 pack 25mph Electric LSVs. These
usually have a light-short-lived 12V battery pack and a crummy
inefficient low pfc 120VAC-only level1 on-board charger.

So on to the question ...
Though I know the nev costs less than the Li-ion pack,
-how much would a 50mile Li-ion pack for this nev cost?

-and what dual input voltage (120 & 240VAC) charger would you
buy to replace the on-board pos? 1kW at level 1, and at least 3kW
off level2, with a 6kW charging ability preferred.

Electric world people say the 12V PbSO4 wet-cell batteries used are 130AH. Because you
can not discharge them as deeply as a 6V PbSO4 wet-cell
golf-cart/traction battery, lets figure you can get about half the
deep-cycle's capacity without prematurely aging it.

That would mean the man's Ford nev uses 65AH at 72V, or a 4.68kW
pack for a 30 mile range. Extrapolating, a 50 mile range pack would
have about 7800kW. Lets round up to give the pack some head room and
call it a 8kW pack at 72V

That is pretty hefty for an EV even these days. 

So thinking about more powerful Electric scooters gets higher on the priority list. Unless you want to bring somebody with you. Then, the electric cars takes it big time.