JackRabbit, the maker of pint-sized electrical microbikes, is again with a brand new product designed to rapidly recharge their batteries from pure, uncut photons mainlined into an e-bike instantly from the solar. In true impartial charging type, the Photo voltaic Charging Equipment from JackRabbit retains riders rolling even when there’s not a handy AC outlet in sight.
Unveiled this week, the Photo voltaic Charging Equipment consists of a single folding photo voltaic panel and a tiny voltage converter that’s configured to output 42.0V, which is the precise voltage required by JackRabbit’s little e-bike batteries. There’s additionally an added USB-A and a USB-C charging port for powering different units along with charging JackRabbit batteries.
“This Photo voltaic Charging Equipment plugs instantly into your bike,” defined the corporate, “letting you recharge while not having an outlet, however with a pace akin to the charger that comes with the OG/OG2 (42V, 2A).”
That may imply the panel outputs round 80W of solar energy, which the corporate says can recharge its batteries in simply three hours. That pretty fast recharging pace is helped by the truth that JackRabbit’s batteries are a mere 151 Wh, or round a 3rd of the scale of most e-bike batteries.
If that sounds small, then you definitely’re proper – it’s. However JackRabbit is all about going micro, providing barely 25 lb rideables which are simple to retailer and convey on adventures, even once they aren’t truly being ridden.
With small batteries that match beneath the 160Wh restrict for a lot of airways within the US, the batteries might be rapidly charged and brought to the widest variety of places. And for riders that wish to go additional than a single 10-mile (16-km) battery will enable, further batteries are sufficiently small to suit a pants pocket. The corporate additionally provides a lot bigger Rangebuster batteries, although they received’t move by TSA and make it onto an airplane in your private merchandise.
It sounds just like the Photo voltaic Chargking Equipment ought to be capable of cost up JackRabbit’s massive RangeBuster batteries, although doubtless in additional than three hours.
The $349 Photo voltaic Charging Equipment is a bit pricier than constructing one thing comparable your self, nevertheless it’s additionally safer and extra handy than hacking collectively your personal battery charger because it’s designed to work with JackRabbit’s batteries proper out of the field.
Technically it’s solely inteded for JackRabbit’s micro e-bikes (themselves technically seated scooters, even when they feel and appear extra like a typical bike), nevertheless it’d most likely work for nearly any 36V e-bike that requires 42.0V to cost.
This isn’t the primary time we’ve seen photo voltaic charging kits for electrical bikes, and it’s a development that’s actually appreciated by open air and tenting fans, pageant goers, or anybody who finds themself and their bike spending prolonged durations within the nice, sunny open air.
