Yes, many electric bicycles power themselves while going down hills or costing. As for the other idea that you could recharge them just by pedaling ... That exists already. Almost nobody wants it because it's easier to plug your bicycle in. The point of the electric bicycle is to do less work, not to do more. Otherwise you would get a regular bicycle because it weighs less.

I had this idea 30 years ago lol. Bicycling in headwinds in windy and flat Denmark gives you a lot of time to think of dumb shit like that, like what if I put small wind turbines on my bike which generated electricity to give me a boost?

We've had windmills as part of the landscape here for a long time after all, so it wasn't exactly rocket science to think that one up.

I cannot facepalm any harder. Dude that's some 8yr old question shit

It's not free energy, but there's at least one bike called the Pi-Pop that works this way in order to spread the energy demand from hills across more distance for the rider. It's an electric bike you can't plug in, it only charges from moving

Fun fact, similar tech is already widely used, in gas cars too, that's how the battery is charged :)

If he removes battery 2 and charge directly battery 1 (as it's pointless either way and adds weight) maybe he can figure out what's wrong.

Or it's ai slop.

Someone has been spending too much time on ChatGPT.

I have a better one: charge from temperature gradients as it moves through new areas.

Has to be a joke

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Aw man, Lemmy finally got a LinkedInLunatics instance? How long has this been here? That was like the last thread I've been hanging onto with reddit. Finally, this place feels like a genuine alternative 🎉