and with anti brake system too , tons of videos about one big piece: pully dual motors and a lot more ... great adventure but solar power in UK is a different thing at least back then when he complained about unpleasant weather.
@@Mike-oz4cv I agree there is no reason for him to use friction drive- but Tom Stanton actually did it right with gearing, this makes zero sense to me.
I love it! Next, you have to do a solar-powered ice maker. That's mostly because I told Solar City I was you, and ordered a bunch of panels. They'll be looking for a video around June. Thanks!
I knew he wasn't gay. It was a joke dimwit. Yea, I am really homophobic when I am transgender and I frequent gay bars. I guess that is the new homophobics.
Hey Peter you won't get an accurate reading until you change out the off road tire for a street tire. The street tire will give you a smoother more flatter surface to apply the motor to thus giving the motor a smoother wider contact surface.
@@4nlimited3dition_4n3d Hub motors are almost as pointless in comparison to this if you're going for efficiency. Mid-drive motors are what he needs to try.
I can't imagine how much better this would work with a road bike and motor that drives through the differential. If you've gotten on a mountain bike after having just ridden a road bike, it's like pedaling a dump truck.
I'd really like to see one of those panels just mounted to the back above the rear wheel, in that spot where a tray normally goes on those bikes with a thing on the back. then put on a better hub motor and see how far it can go in the sun. maybe with some thoughtful placement you could even manage to mount a 2nd panel somewhere else but I can't think of a good spot.. front of the handlebars is just way too sketchy imo. when you showed the top-down drone shot the obvious spot seemed like on your back, like with a backpack or something. would need to build some angled assembly to face it straight up not at an angle though
Imagine if that bike was converted into a tuk tuk with a trailer with the solar panels on the roof so you could actually haul light stuff like groceries
This design is actually really cool. I'd love to see it made even more efficient! A hub motor would probably make a world of difference in reducing the loss of energy.
You could probably optimise the way the motor drives the wheel. Also, it might be a good idea to implement regenerative braking. Edit: I have another idea to further optimise this thing. Install a solar panel on top of the person riding the bike, so that you can generate more electricity and provide some shade to the rider. Also, getting the panels higher could get them more sunlight.
@@girlsdrinkfeck you carzy and also homophobic idiot tesla is full of innovation and new technology and it is one of the most successful electronic cars and is incredibly efficient so do your research before commenting next thing you will be saying is vaccines are bad and 5g causes cancer.
10:15 hey! Speaking of efficiency, why don’t you use a more efficient driving system, like direct drive, instead of grinding your tires? Also you would like to use a parallel sun panel configuration with a booster power stage, to avoid serial blockage of partial shadows of your path. Btw I know, these needs more work an you wanted it on an instant. :)
the level of ghetto is over the top if he just swapped the pedals he never uses for a motor bracket he'd be done but I suppose efficiency isn't the idea
I think it has something to do with the drone motor not being able to produce enough torque. He could do reductions but this was something he could just put together in a few hours and it worked alright
A few things to make it more efficient... Body position while riding, to catch less wind. Shock absorbers on the panel wheels. Use a build-in-wheel motor. Smaller tires to have less friction. Maybe a bit of small mirror like 45° side edges to it to reflect more sunlight when the sun dropw.
I know it's 3 years later, so you might not see this, but you noted that the power output dips when you put your hand over it. This is an interesting quirk of solar panels that comes about when putting them in series. If you put them in parallel, or even better got a dedicated solar controller for each panel, this "choking" effect is much reduced. Though, on each panel, many cells are still in series so you'd still choke one panel out. For an application like this where the panels are unevenly lit, this may be incredibly useful. Although you would need fatter wire to handle more current.
As a guy that has built several electric bikes (bicycles and motorcycles) I find that the fact that you are powering yourself with solar panels absolutely astounding!
lasersaber I know that it’s been done this way but definitely try it out yourself don’t get discouraged you could do a better job you never know so don’t give up
Supercapacitors are very good for absorbing high amounts of current demand or current inflow, however, their capacity versus their physical size has not yet reached a point where it is a good idea to completely replace your battery. I recommend adding them to your system regardless, because they do help, but keep a lithium battery on board to do the leg work.
@@David_Brinkerhoff93 Mine use around 14Wh/km in city (20Wh/mi), and around 11Wh/km (18Wh/mi) at 40km/h (25mph) on the countryside. How fast are you going?
NO FREAKING WAY!!!!!! That is the bike path that goes down to university of Dayton, up to Oakwood, and into Kettering! I live in Oakwood!!!!!!!! OMG OMG OMG
I saw that someone said you should send the scammer a glitter bomb. I dunno about that but it did make me wonder what a Mark Rober + Peter Sripol collab would be like. Just a thought :)
Nice, quick, proof of concept. There are so many ways a person could make this far, far more efficient. For some examples. Use a good quality, in wheel hub motor. Use the thin, flexible, lighter Solar panels, and connect them to one trailer made out of a composite of EPS foam, fiberglass, a thin plywood top layer (to screw into etc), and Titebond III glue, and use two bike tires with low rolling resistance. Create a fairing for the bike itself, and/or a bubble windshield, and even better, do that on a recumbent bike that is already more aerodynamic than a regular bike. Even better still, build the bike from scratch, using a combo of bamboo+S-glass fiberglass+high PSI tensile epoxy (preferably 7k+) for the primary structure. If you get the weight down enough, and the improve the aerodynamics, you can use a smaller battery and less Solar panels. Basically creating a bike version of the Aptera car which may be coming out in the near future.
I like how the solar panel is wiggling behind the bike. It is so CUTE! Suddenly got an idea, what if you make the solar panel on top of a shade, so you enjoy the wind and none of the sun while you are charging. I mean the snake tail is cool but not that safe.
13:08 Aren't you supposed to add bypass diodes so that, If one cell is covered, it's not heated by the current from the other cells? I'm just asking because I don't remember if the cells already contain those diodes
Infinite solar powered drone, or helecopter, plane, thing. Somthing that flys. You pick the best music to go over time laps too by the way, it's really good
second to this. build a solar powered drone & let it chase the sun. let's see if it can travel around the world in 1 day! well, sound impossible, but sun seems didn't travel that fast.. pls give it a try!
the french mopped SOLEX was using a similar friction system with an abrasive stone roller connected to a tiny gas engine which was dropped on the front wheel by a lever and you could also use it as a regular bike
Justin Bassett-Green So, riding it under even partially shadow path makes it very inefficient. Parallel configuration with a power stage (parallel boosters) would make it more efficient.
Good work. Some suggestions. 1. Make a roof out of solar panels. 2. Make a small trailer obviously with solar panel roof. 3. Add some batteries in the trailer. (But spare some space for luggage)
I like the concept. A fast stacking trailor is a great idea when you need to park it. I would build one for sure if I just had a bike hub motor for simplicity..
Honestly if you revisit this, Attached the motor to the Rear wheel direct(as in welding the motor to the bolt.) Also look into motor charging too, That way you can charge the wheel when braking or going down hill. While Trailer is fun, Maybe attach a few to over the rear wheel.
*Solar Powered Ebike Travels 12500km to China!* th-cam.com/video/Y-520mJSeyQ/w-d-xo.html Look for "Sun Trip" - it's a race to China every two years of solar powered ebikes.
Is there way to make a bike with a solar enclosure at the top (similar to the solar boat?). The trailers seem to be causing some drag in your overall top speed.
There’s three wheeled bikes known as recumbent tricycles which can become velomobiles when you put a shell over the frame (ie. Body work like on a car or a plane). I always imagine velomobiles being perfect for running with a solar powered system like this or a fuel cell. Perhaps a gas motor could be added but unless it was extremely efficient it would eliminate the point of it being a velomobile. Wouldn’t that be cool? (Wink wink tsk tsk)
zeuss194 The main curiosity I’ve wondered is if pedaling is really the only way it can be efficient. Because of the base frame’s insane aerodynamics, extreme light weight for a vehicle and some potential to put a motor behind a delta frame (2 rear wheels, 1 wheel) Velomobile, it may be possible to make many different kinds of propulsion systems work with it at high efficiency. At the end of the day it would only need to move the person riding it. In other words, it’s astonishing yet that nobody had thought of thinking of said recumbent trikes like go kart frames: put any kind of motor on it and it’ll zip around pretty quickly even with chain drive and gears.
Matthew Ferguson right. I originally thought of how tall could bicycle gearing possibly get with consideration of the rider cadence (90-120rpm providing the higher power, around 60rpm being good for torque). Forget the cyclist as a human and consider the cyclist to be more of the powerplant; then the main goal would be optimizing the speed the bicycle can get at those cadence ranges. When the chainring gets over 64 teeth, and god knows about how difficult 96 or 128 would be (these numbers are all multiples of 4), the issue is how much torque can the cyclist push into the crankset without issues developing. Hence, with a smaller chainring with a motor that can produce a much higher cadence and much more power, it’s theoretically possible, and perhaps even safer, to make a velomobile capable of highway speeds. And one day I hope, one capable of pedaling to and maintaining such speeds using non motorized methods. Now as a human then, the cyclist has to be protected from the structural stresses and impacts at all times. It’s possible to line the bodywork with foam or some sort of padding which can reduce the force the cyclist gets. Behind the head rest on the seat an airbag could be installed too. Some sort of ergonomic steering wheel would be needed to reduce the width of the vehicle in the case of underhand handlebars like some recumbent tricycle designs, and with steering not directly engaged with the fork, in the case of overhand steering handlebars like on a traditional bicycle. There’s a few velomobile designs made in the past decade with such a steering wheel, although it’s a mini wheel and I would prefer a steering wheel optimized like an F1s’, with a gear towards the front of the vehicle that actuated the front wheel with 180 degree range like the aforementioned design. As for the wheels... that is a matter of debate. They cannot be small because that would reduce the amount of inertia the wheels can sustain and inherently make it more likely to not survive a pothole. They cannot be too big because it would make it harder to accelerate and more difficult to fit inside the bodywork of the vehicle. It could be possible to make a four wheel version with an open wheel design but then it would need a more complicated steering system, which may/may not be able to have field replaceable parts. Hence the delta tricycle it would be based on. Wider tires would help apply more grip to the road and if all three wheels are the same type it would homogenize and simplify the vehicle even further. For that reason I’ve centered around the range of wheels from 26 to 29 inches. 26 or 27.5 inch tires might be the best chance at having all three wheels being the same, and as long as they’re over 2.8 inches in width it wouldn’t be terrible for all weather usage and use on most road surfaces, especially if they have knobs. After watching someone 3d print a differential ring with Nylon and getting it to work (Albert for an extremely short duration) on a 1500kg+ truck on TH-cam, I would not be surprised if it would certainly be able to work in a vehicle several times lighter, hence the transmission could very well be entirely 3D printed. You heard that right; every part except for the belt or chain (either of which could also be 3D printed but with a highly flexible material), could be 3D printed. This means the parts could be fabricated using a suitcase 3D printer (seriously those exist) carried in the rear of the vehicle, reducing the cost of replacing a part from thousands of dollars to the amount of electricity and the mass of plastic used. That leaves the powerplant. A motor (one that may run on home grown fuels like E85B, 15% butanol and 85% ethanol) could provide primary power, providing the power to the motor itself. An auxiliary motor, perhaps a fuel cell, could power electronics and perhaps even providing secondary power to a front motor, in case the motor fails. And if the fuel cell motor fails, then the cyclist themselves can pedal the vehicle home themselves, so long as the vehicle is light enough. With all the additions to the velomobile, namely adding an incredibly small rear motor and a fuel cell, I would not expect it to exceed 75kg at all in weight. With just the ICE it would not weigh more than the velomobile itself (presumed to weigh 30kg) and the weight of the motor (15-20kg), about 50kg in total. Getting it to weigh as much or less than the rider powering it is paramount; not only would it remain relatively easy to pedal but it would improve its safety by preventing injury to pedestrians, cyclists and motorcycle riders. As for the person inside, as long as they avoid being unseen by vehicles exceeding several tons and cars, they should not expect to be killed instantaneously. Arguably the bodywork and frame might just hold up to that pressure.
Great video.. lots of room for improvement on this project. If u were to put the power at the crank using the chain u could use the gears on the back wheel to save battery life and go faster and u won't get any slipping of the motor on the tire .
If the ESC isn´t made for handling and storaging the reversed current flow, it´s gonna simply overheat and burn. and most ESC don´t do regen braking, but simply do ESC-stuff instead (controling the motor)...
You'd have to have an additional motor in a rotation opposite of what it spins when electricity is flowed through it. And for it to actually be braking, it needs to be under load.
@@klausbrinck2137 Many drone ESC's nowadays support regen braking. It's not really for charging the battery, but for stopping the prop quickly, but it would pump voltage back into the battery, since that is the best place to dump the energy.
Use some RC car shocks on those panels. Put a 15 watt panel on a basket as a lid on the front, and another mounted to the lid of your rear box. 20ish watts will give you a couple of miles of range in a day of charging.
I think you need to move the wheels further back on the panel's too. That way each panels will flex/bounce less as each panel will have closer to a wheel at each corner of it, instead of just two teetering near the middle of each panel. Kind of like how articulated lorrys have the trailer wheels right at the rear of the trailer, not the middle, while the front of the trailer rests on the tractor (which has its own wheels).
Alright, here's my idea. Take an ebike and attach an alternator to it with the appropriate power adapter and wire it to a charger for the battery with a spare battery to it. This way as your riding it charges the battery so that when one runs out you just stop for a moment and switch batteries. I seriously doubt it will give you infinite range or anything like that but it should significantly increase the overall range. Just a thought I had. Also, I know exactly where your riding! I use to live right next to that trail and I use to ride on it everyday. It's a nice place to ride or walk!
Cool design although I’d expect a car to eventually not anticipate a solar panel trailer and accidentally run them over. Maybe some vertical carbon fiber tubes with some reflectors or high visibility tape or something could mitigate that
I like how the bike path you were testing on is like 99% shade.
The most important part of the video....
Epic
What a fart smeller...
And at like 8pm lol
That’s Ohio for you
Tom staton: spends years and several versions to perfect an e bike
Peter: hold my circuit board
Hold my masking tape*
Both designs are not exactly reliable or efficient.
and with anti brake system too , tons of videos about one big piece: pully
dual motors and a lot more ... great adventure
but solar power in UK is a different thing at least back then when he complained about unpleasant weather.
@@Mike-oz4cv I agree there is no reason for him to use friction drive- but Tom Stanton actually did it right with gearing, this makes zero sense to me.
That's like comparing a Tesla Model S to Geoff.... that boxy electric car Clarkson Hammond and May made...
I love it! Next, you have to do a solar-powered ice maker. That's mostly because I told Solar City I was you, and ordered a bunch of panels. They'll be looking for a video around June. Thanks!
Already exists just search on yt
I've signed up that scam email account for an ungodly amount of garbage newsletters. Hope they enjoy it.
hope it works :)
Serves them right
Hm I think I received that sign up bomb before what's it called
i did this website that pours 1 email a second from into their inbox
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Peter: “Let’s open up this bike motor”
*opens box to reveal audible logo*
Me: “son of a....”
I just dislike and flag videos that do this. Easy fix
@@joblessalex that have sponsors?
joblessalex really wow what a b**ch it’s a sponsor man
Same
joblessalex what do you flag them for?
When you put max upgrades on a starter vehicle.
LOL
Haha it looks like you're mad about it
I’m doing an experiment (about the algorithm), have you ever heard of ISAB
@@ZbLL yes
@@ZbLL yes i watch him daily 😆😆😆😆😆🥅🥅🥅
“The speed controller could explode”
*puts ESC right next to family jewels*
isha he got balls of steel, lmao
I read that jews
Well, if he is gay. He wouldn't need them anyway.
@@Tinkerbell227 he's not gay, haha, you're so homophobic
I knew he wasn't gay. It was a joke dimwit.
Yea, I am really homophobic when I am transgender and I frequent gay bars. I guess that is the new homophobics.
Hey Peter you won't get an accurate reading until you change out the off road tire for a street tire. The street tire will give you a smoother more flatter surface to apply the motor to thus giving the motor a smoother wider contact surface.
Rather just get a cheap hub motor. Much better efficiency and overall cleaner.
@@4nlimited3dition_4n3d Or both, of course.
@@4nlimited3dition_4n3d Hub motors are almost as pointless in comparison to this if you're going for efficiency. Mid-drive motors are what he needs to try.
@@edism Mid drives lose efficiency in the gears and chains drivetrain friction. They also lose reliability due to that.
I can't imagine how much better this would work with a road bike and motor that drives through the differential. If you've gotten on a mountain bike after having just ridden a road bike, it's like pedaling a dump truck.
I'd really like to see one of those panels just mounted to the back above the rear wheel, in that spot where a tray normally goes on those bikes with a thing on the back. then put on a better hub motor and see how far it can go in the sun. maybe with some thoughtful placement you could even manage to mount a 2nd panel somewhere else but I can't think of a good spot.. front of the handlebars is just way too sketchy imo. when you showed the top-down drone shot the obvious spot seemed like on your back, like with a backpack or something. would need to build some angled assembly to face it straight up not at an angle though
verified account with 11 likes and no comments... hmmmmm
wear it as a hat
@@allending8753 nobody knows me here (thankfully.. you should see the same old comments I get when I'm in a gaming related section of youtube.... :/ )
Haha you wish! I know your bhops, desinc. Good to see you in the ebike section tho :p
> you could put 1 or even 2 on a regular bike trailer maybe
> also i like th idea of putting it above your head somehow so it doubles a s a sunshade
Hey Peter, you should make a build video on this with Tom Stanton!!
I don't think anyone wants americans traveling overseas rn because we suck at controlling covid o_0
@@Thomas-nc9fz What if you build your umbrella out of 10mm carbon fibre tubes?
Tom: takes a couple months to perfect his e-bike
Peter: straps a motor to the bike and and calls it done in a couple hours
@@tylerchiu7065 yeah it's just soo hilarious🤣
I'm curios how well that would go.
Last time they met Peter almost lost a finger.
Peter: this is a pretty good e bike Tom Stanton: hold my beer
It hurt me looking at his and remembering toms
Korean Jigalo I am still waiting on the collab Between Tom and Peter
😂
Yeah they'd make a good team. Peter makes things work by shear ingenuity and Tom has that pro engineering background.
Imagine if that bike was converted into a tuk tuk with a trailer with the solar panels on the roof so you could actually haul light stuff like groceries
Could probably fit more solars, too, if... you needed that for some reason.
I haul my tools mostly.
Just put on a rack and use panniers, 25kg/40-80l should be plenty of space for groceries. I usually go with 2x20L on my bike.
This design is actually really cool. I'd love to see it made even more efficient! A hub motor would probably make a world of difference in reducing the loss of energy.
pretty dumb design, think about it pal
This is probably one of the worst design that I have ever seen.
@@dr.palsonp.h.d815 it was done like that on purpose
since the energy is made by humans that use a bycicle we ain't creating any fossil fuel energy so its clean hence no need for this
Idk if he meant to do this, but at 12:07 he stayed perfectly in the sun and it was satisfying
But you know what's not satisfying? Todays sponso-- wait. i mean The first panel's front left rubber spacer thing is missing for like the whole trip
He probably did, they are after all solar panels that need sun.
Yeah, it was.
You could probably optimise the way the motor drives the wheel. Also, it might be a good idea to implement regenerative braking.
Edit: I have another idea to further optimise this thing. Install a solar panel on top of the person riding the bike, so that you can generate more electricity and provide some shade to the rider. Also, getting the panels higher could get them more sunlight.
Extremely disappointed that the picture is a lie. I was excited to see over a dozen solar panels being towed.
GroundHawk same
It‘s still ok tho.
@@vincentstohr2216 ofc it's ok, it's just that we wanted to see him pull a comically long snake of pannels
Wisp 999 Yeah now I understand u😂😂
Its thumbnail
From plane man to bicycle man, that's character development
MOSHILA XD cant say you’re wrong there
Sing us a song, you're the piano man
No he went from plane to boat to bike
Considering the wright brothers, thats not development, thats regression
I call it regression
I love how everything that he builds sounds like a drone or some rc car lol
Make a solar powered wagon that autonomously carries your groceries home.
Now you have to borrow a Tesla and tow like 50 panels 😂
U mean 200 panels:P, a Tesla needs around 17-20 kilowatts to run:O
why say tesla ? just say electric vehicle , stop using tesla as a generic rband name for all EVs tesla is gay and cringe
@@girlsdrinkfeck ok
@@girlsdrinkfeck you carzy and also homophobic idiot tesla is full of innovation and new technology and it is one of the most successful electronic cars and is incredibly efficient so do your research before commenting next thing you will be saying is vaccines are bad and 5g causes cancer.
girlsdrinkfeck your obviously 70 years old no one says gay and cringe anymore lmao Tesla is the #1 ev and has revolutionized the market
10:15 hey! Speaking of efficiency, why don’t you use a more efficient driving system, like direct drive, instead of grinding your tires?
Also you would like to use a parallel sun panel configuration with a booster power stage, to avoid serial blockage of partial shadows of your path.
Btw I know, these needs more work an you wanted it on an instant. :)
the level of ghetto is over the top
if he just swapped the pedals he never uses for a motor bracket he'd be done
but I suppose efficiency isn't the idea
I think it has something to do with the drone motor not being able to produce enough torque. He could do reductions but this was something he could just put together in a few hours and it worked alright
Cost
@@tysenp8193 The friction drive that he used ended up being a reduction because circumference of motor can is much smaller than that of the wheel.
there are 100 volt soler panleso there are in 300 volt in all
A few things to make it more efficient...
Body position while riding, to catch less wind.
Shock absorbers on the panel wheels.
Use a build-in-wheel motor.
Smaller tires to have less friction.
Maybe a bit of small mirror like 45° side edges to it to reflect more sunlight when the sun dropw.
Camera man: Hey Peter, how many clips of the solor panel’s do u want? Peter: YES
Use code kairos in da shop
Autism brawl
8:20 I'll have you know that you have engineers watching who definitely care about your wattage and volts ;) Keep up the entertaining projects dude!
@@johndaniels972 Possibly casual watchers watching him make wacky projects that sometimes work lmao
Also probably many of us are non-engineers who care about wattage and volts.
I know it's 3 years later, so you might not see this, but you noted that the power output dips when you put your hand over it. This is an interesting quirk of solar panels that comes about when putting them in series. If you put them in parallel, or even better got a dedicated solar controller for each panel, this "choking" effect is much reduced. Though, on each panel, many cells are still in series so you'd still choke one panel out. For an application like this where the panels are unevenly lit, this may be incredibly useful. Although you would need fatter wire to handle more current.
It’s all fun and games until you have to go over a speed bump
I can hear the rattling. “KSHSHKSGSJSKSHSKSJH”
No it’s still fun and games
Now go off-road
But your not gonna hit it at full speed, obviously ur gonna slow down
Soul Killer I don’t see any suspension on those solar panels. Get your facts straight.
As a guy that has built several electric bikes (bicycles and motorcycles) I find that the fact that you are powering yourself with solar panels absolutely astounding!
Especially since he was in the shade 90+% of the video.
Engine:makes noise
TH-cam subtitles: *music*
Tom Staton:It took me thousands of hours to make an E bike
Peter: three take it or leave it
I went to college in Cedarville! I knew I recognized that bike path. I lived like 1 block from that bikepath
Same here. The bike path shots and one of the water towers clued me in before he read the sign
12:03
ElectroBOOM: see, the ac voltage goes like this
Depends on what ac you use. There is square ac and sine ac. There is also 2, 3 and 4 phase ac.
Bradley Whais just enjoy the joke..
@@bradleywhais7779 flex,there is ac with no shape as well,
FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER
I love this! I have been wanting to build something similar, but with supercapacitors in place of the battery.
lasersaber I know that it’s been done this way but definitely try it out yourself don’t get discouraged you could do a better job you never know so don’t give up
great and maybe more efficient! also less capacity may cause more voltage fluctuation on your esc
Good luck. ebikes use about 30-50watt hours per mile. you would need like 40lb of supercapacitors to in that range. but id love to see it done.
Supercapacitors are very good for absorbing high amounts of current demand or current inflow, however, their capacity versus their physical size has not yet reached a point where it is a good idea to completely replace your battery. I recommend adding them to your system regardless, because they do help, but keep a lithium battery on board to do the leg work.
@@David_Brinkerhoff93 Mine use around 14Wh/km in city (20Wh/mi), and around 11Wh/km (18Wh/mi) at 40km/h (25mph) on the countryside.
How fast are you going?
NO FREAKING WAY!!!!!! That is the bike path that goes down to university of Dayton, up to Oakwood, and into Kettering! I live in Oakwood!!!!!!!! OMG OMG OMG
when you crossed the street there should have been a dairy queen nearby
Clickbait: "NUCLEAR FUSION POWERED BIKE"
technically not wrong
Alternate title to that: LOW BUGGET DIY NUCLEAR FUSION KIDS FUN POWER SUPER BIKE GONE WRONG!
And remember that its wireless from the power source
I mean technically you're not wrong...
r/technicallythetruth
I saw that someone said you should send the scammer a glitter bomb. I dunno about that but it did make me wonder what a Mark Rober + Peter Sripol collab would be like. Just a thought :)
They did a colab with the phone drone
Oh yeah I forgot about that 😂😂
Smooth road tires would make it a good bit more efficient. Rolling and through better motor coupling.
There’s so many things that could make it more efficient fam
My husband has been saying this kind of setup should work for years, I can't wait to show this to him!
Peter is a cryptid if spotted in the wild. If asked, he will gladly explain his Dwemer-like machinations to any and all passersby.
The dwemer were actually just huge nerds who spent all their time working on stupid machines lol
He was like "set your food on fire, but only a little" back in the day.
Ah yes the Dwemer, builders of SCP-914.
Fun fact: the plural of “passerby” is “passersby.”
@@you_just good looking out
This channel is like the physical embodiment of GrayStillPlays...
Alright, today we’re going to use engineering to never stop moving...
It’s an electric e-bike.
NEW PARTS DAMMIT!
Welcome back
It's turbo dismount
Wat
"I powered my city by burning orphanages"- GrayStillPlays
masochism
Peter making an ebike in 3 hours:
Tom Stanton making an ebike in 2 years with hundreds of dollars: *insert**Mike Wazowski face*
images.app.goo.gl/jgPeVTwW5BDCXhcGA
Im sure you would prefer Toms bike instead of Peters bike
Toms bike is way faster, more powerful and far less Jimmy rigged
Samuel Riley Jimmy rigged...? Did Jerry die or something?!?!
Lol it was joke
Peter: Imma give it a little more gas.
Me: No, you're not.
Yeah I caught that too, he should have said "I'm gonna give it a little more juice"
Give er more potentiometer
Nice, quick, proof of concept. There are so many ways a person could make this far, far more efficient. For some examples. Use a good quality, in wheel hub motor. Use the thin, flexible, lighter Solar panels, and connect them to one trailer made out of a composite of EPS foam, fiberglass, a thin plywood top layer (to screw into etc), and Titebond III glue, and use two bike tires with low rolling resistance.
Create a fairing for the bike itself, and/or a bubble windshield, and even better, do that on a recumbent bike that is already more aerodynamic than a regular bike. Even better still, build the bike from scratch, using a combo of bamboo+S-glass fiberglass+high PSI tensile epoxy (preferably 7k+) for the primary structure.
If you get the weight down enough, and the improve the aerodynamics, you can use a smaller battery and less Solar panels. Basically creating a bike version of the Aptera car which may be coming out in the near future.
Now he should build a solar bike and have someone rides it across the US.
sign me up
A bike like this would not be street legal in most states. If he made the tow 3 panels wide, I think he could get it street legal.
@@Malaphor True, I think he would be able to find some sort of route though.
@@battleboy0595 I find that three plates can be put on a vertical rack thats roughly the size of a toddler cart which should be legal
@@bilibiliism vertical racks would literally ruin the purpose of solar panels... how do you expect them to get any sunlight xD
that dude is getting so much spam now haha
Dave: Takes his chances
Sam: A realist at heart
Peter: Madlad by nature and design
I like how the solar panel is wiggling behind the bike. It is so CUTE!
Suddenly got an idea, what if you make the solar panel on top of a shade, so you enjoy the wind and none of the sun while you are charging. I mean the snake tail is cool but not that safe.
6:48 That's what she said.
I’ve never laughed that hard in a while
guy had one of those "ideas you have while drinking beer in the garage with my friends" moments of brainstorming, and it actually worked. Amazing.
So cool, I'm gonna try to cross France this way after building a solar snake 👍😃.
Thanks for the video 🙏Stay safe.
Intéressant!
The is no sun at france
Pretty hot actually, you'd lose efficiency on the solar panel :)
@@beamngnation9494 Seriously ? The last 7 days were hot and sunny.
@@beamngnation9494 It as been 40°C today...
*TIP* for someone building something similar:
*Sanding Drum's have wonderful grip even in wet weather*
Solar on top the bike!
I love your content! To show my appreciation, I'm sending you a huge shipment of white Hanes tee shirts. Enjoy!!
Next vid: solar powered rocket brought to you by Fruit of the Loom xD
Peter: how does William make things
Sam: um... zip ties?
13:08 Aren't you supposed to add bypass diodes so that, If one cell is covered, it's not heated by the current from the other cells? I'm just asking because I don't remember if the cells already contain those diodes
Infinite solar powered drone, or helecopter, plane, thing. Somthing that flys.
You pick the best music to go over time laps too by the way, it's really good
second to this. build a solar powered drone & let it chase the sun. let's see if it can travel around the world in 1 day!
well, sound impossible, but sun seems didn't travel that fast.. pls give it a try!
umm yeah nasa is still working on that, for a couple decades now...
I love how I got an ad for the swytch Bike kit.
I got an ad for solar panels, It was like a 5 minute infomercial. I let it play while reading the comments. I hope Peter makes some money off that.
the french mopped SOLEX was using a similar friction system with an abrasive stone roller connected to a tiny gas engine which was dropped on the front wheel by a lever and you could also use it as a regular bike
Blocking a cell in a shadow basically is the same as forcing the other panels through a giant LED, as far as the resistance goes
Justin Bassett-Green So, riding it under even partially shadow path makes it very inefficient. Parallel configuration with a power stage (parallel boosters) would make it more efficient.
I cant imagine seeing someone on this on the side of the road
Well i mean you technically did
Well technically it was just a bike path.
Time to make the next tier of solar bike: Having the panels track the sun dynamically.
I've given some thought to the idea. As of now I'll have solar panels facing different ways so at least some panels get max charge during the day.
Love this. Simple execution and great understandable educational content. We should collab.
would love to see this!
The tail of solar panels is kind of cute 😂reminds me of ducklings, great video!
Imagine if Peter actually cared about something what he could build!
did you mean: the actual real life planes he's built himself
Like his planes maybe ?
What even are these comments? This build is awesome. He made engineering look accessible to normal people. What did you do today?
Peter loves china
Dave, blink twice if you're being held hostage.
We shall liberate you from Commissioner Peterson!
Please put some type of remote control car suspension system on the panels.
Inflatable tires at low pressure would do the job
Good work. Some suggestions.
1. Make a roof out of solar panels.
2. Make a small trailer obviously with solar panel roof.
3. Add some batteries in the trailer. (But spare some space for luggage)
No one - Bicycles are for exercising
Peter - I can fix that
I like the concept. A fast stacking trailor is a great idea when you need to park it. I would build one for sure if I just had a bike hub motor for simplicity..
Honestly if you revisit this, Attached the motor to the Rear wheel direct(as in welding the motor to the bolt.) Also look into motor charging too, That way you can charge the wheel when braking or going down hill. While Trailer is fun, Maybe attach a few to over the rear wheel.
I'd love to see someone build this more durable and go a long distance on it.
*Solar Powered Ebike Travels 12500km to China!*
th-cam.com/video/Y-520mJSeyQ/w-d-xo.html
Look for "Sun Trip" - it's a race to China every two years of solar powered ebikes.
This guy is on nextlevel 🔥
Is there way to make a bike with a solar enclosure at the top (similar to the solar boat?). The trailers seem to be causing some drag in your overall top speed.
I literally thought about long trailer of solar panels for infinite driving and after 2 seconds i saw notification for this video omg.
I was thinking about something similar to that
Fack i was also thinking about it , but with actual ebike.
You're tapping into the collective consciousness of TH-cam
"Infinitely powered"
laughs in the dark cause its *night time*
why did i laugh at this, im so disappointed in myself
*laughs in nighttime*
Infinitely powered on Mercury that is.
This is the kind of youtube projects I like. Not very professional but just enough to make it awsome 👌
Watching you casually tow around three solar panels gives me anxiety.
The perfect bike doesn't exi...
Oh it does........a classic Harley Davidson
Yea a carbon Santa Cruz
Pretry cool idea, gosh I have so many solar panels and power stations too. Thanks for sharing man.
There’s three wheeled bikes known as recumbent tricycles which can become velomobiles when you put a shell over the frame (ie. Body work like on a car or a plane). I always imagine velomobiles being perfect for running with a solar powered system like this or a fuel cell. Perhaps a gas motor could be added but unless it was extremely efficient it would eliminate the point of it being a velomobile. Wouldn’t that be cool? (Wink wink tsk tsk)
Velomobile is probably one of the most efficient way to move.
zeuss194
The main curiosity I’ve wondered is if pedaling is really the only way it can be efficient. Because of the base frame’s insane aerodynamics, extreme light weight for a vehicle and some potential to put a motor behind a delta frame (2 rear wheels, 1 wheel) Velomobile, it may be possible to make many different kinds of propulsion systems work with it at high efficiency. At the end of the day it would only need to move the person riding it.
In other words, it’s astonishing yet that nobody had thought of thinking of said recumbent trikes like go kart frames: put any kind of motor on it and it’ll zip around pretty quickly even with chain drive and gears.
This was the first thing I thought of when I saw this. And maybe getting the motor into gearing.
Matthew Ferguson right. I originally thought of how tall could bicycle gearing possibly get with consideration of the rider cadence (90-120rpm providing the higher power, around 60rpm being good for torque). Forget the cyclist as a human and consider the cyclist to be more of the powerplant; then the main goal would be optimizing the speed the bicycle can get at those cadence ranges. When the chainring gets over 64 teeth, and god knows about how difficult 96 or 128 would be (these numbers are all multiples of 4), the issue is how much torque can the cyclist push into the crankset without issues developing. Hence, with a smaller chainring with a motor that can produce a much higher cadence and much more power, it’s theoretically possible, and perhaps even safer, to make a velomobile capable of highway speeds. And one day I hope, one capable of pedaling to and maintaining such speeds using non motorized methods.
Now as a human then, the cyclist has to be protected from the structural stresses and impacts at all times. It’s possible to line the bodywork with foam or some sort of padding which can reduce the force the cyclist gets. Behind the head rest on the seat an airbag could be installed too. Some sort of ergonomic steering wheel would be needed to reduce the width of the vehicle in the case of underhand handlebars like some recumbent tricycle designs, and with steering not directly engaged with the fork, in the case of overhand steering handlebars like on a traditional bicycle. There’s a few velomobile designs made in the past decade with such a steering wheel, although it’s a mini wheel and I would prefer a steering wheel optimized like an F1s’, with a gear towards the front of the vehicle that actuated the front wheel with 180 degree range like the aforementioned design.
As for the wheels... that is a matter of debate. They cannot be small because that would reduce the amount of inertia the wheels can sustain and inherently make it more likely to not survive a pothole. They cannot be too big because it would make it harder to accelerate and more difficult to fit inside the bodywork of the vehicle. It could be possible to make a four wheel version with an open wheel design but then it would need a more complicated steering system, which may/may not be able to have field replaceable parts. Hence the delta tricycle it would be based on. Wider tires would help apply more grip to the road and if all three wheels are the same type it would homogenize and simplify the vehicle even further. For that reason I’ve centered around the range of wheels from 26 to 29 inches. 26 or 27.5 inch tires might be the best chance at having all three wheels being the same, and as long as they’re over 2.8 inches in width it wouldn’t be terrible for all weather usage and use on most road surfaces, especially if they have knobs.
After watching someone 3d print a differential ring with Nylon and getting it to work (Albert for an extremely short duration) on a 1500kg+ truck on TH-cam, I would not be surprised if it would certainly be able to work in a vehicle several times lighter, hence the transmission could very well be entirely 3D printed. You heard that right; every part except for the belt or chain (either of which could also be 3D printed but with a highly flexible material), could be 3D printed. This means the parts could be fabricated using a suitcase 3D printer (seriously those exist) carried in the rear of the vehicle, reducing the cost of replacing a part from thousands of dollars to the amount of electricity and the mass of plastic used.
That leaves the powerplant. A motor (one that may run on home grown fuels like E85B, 15% butanol and 85% ethanol) could provide primary power, providing the power to the motor itself. An auxiliary motor, perhaps a fuel cell, could power electronics and perhaps even providing secondary power to a front motor, in case the motor fails. And if the fuel cell motor fails, then the cyclist themselves can pedal the vehicle home themselves, so long as the vehicle is light enough.
With all the additions to the velomobile, namely adding an incredibly small rear motor and a fuel cell, I would not expect it to exceed 75kg at all in weight. With just the ICE it would not weigh more than the velomobile itself (presumed to weigh 30kg) and the weight of the motor (15-20kg), about 50kg in total. Getting it to weigh as much or less than the rider powering it is paramount; not only would it remain relatively easy to pedal but it would improve its safety by preventing injury to pedestrians, cyclists and motorcycle riders. As for the person inside, as long as they avoid being unseen by vehicles exceeding several tons and cars, they should not expect to be killed instantaneously. Arguably the bodywork and frame might just hold up to that pressure.
Remember when Bicycling was also considered a great exercise..
Great video.. lots of room for improvement on this project.
If u were to put the power at the crank using the chain u could use the gears on the back wheel to save battery life and go faster and u won't get any slipping of the motor on the tire .
Tom Stanton: I built this beautyfully engineered e-bike
Peter: Hold my lipo cell...
Being a brushless motor when your going down a hill wont that recharge the battery anyways? Regen braking style
If the ESC isn´t made for handling and storaging the reversed current flow, it´s gonna simply overheat and burn. and most ESC don´t do regen braking, but simply do ESC-stuff instead (controling the motor)...
You'd have to have an additional motor in a rotation opposite of what it spins when electricity is flowed through it. And for it to actually be braking, it needs to be under load.
@@klausbrinck2137 Many drone ESC's nowadays support regen braking. It's not really for charging the battery, but for stopping the prop quickly, but it would pump voltage back into the battery, since that is the best place to dump the energy.
@@johndaniels972 I failed my Digital Electronics class, didn't know that was possible. Thanks for the info.
@@HaloWolf102 that's just not true... don't make up stuff you don't know
Use some RC car shocks on those panels. Put a 15 watt panel on a basket as a lid on the front, and another mounted to the lid of your rear box. 20ish watts will give you a couple of miles of range in a day of charging.
Love it! It's great how you Broke down making an E bike into simply Gaffa taping a brushless motor to the wheel. Next time u see one for 2k...
If I saw this coming down the street I wouldn't know whether to be impressed or mystified.
Sam Crane Best course of action is to run away screaming
I think you need to move the wheels further back on the panel's too. That way each panels will flex/bounce less as each panel will have closer to a wheel at each corner of it, instead of just two teetering near the middle of each panel.
Kind of like how articulated lorrys have the trailer wheels right at the rear of the trailer, not the middle, while the front of the trailer rests on the tractor (which has its own wheels).
LOL I love how the clips for stacking the panels slowly disappear throughout the video
GRAB THE SHAFT AND PUT A LLOAD ON THIS THING xD @6:47
Add skateboard grip tape to the motor to increase friction to the tire.
I have a Video idea:
Can you make a car or a Tank (you can Chose) out of some chainsaws?
That's actually not a bad idea.
Chainsaw gocarts are a thing I've seen some other maker youtubers build. I'd like to see Peter give it a go.
all the towns people are probably just like "oh its just peter with his electric invention stuff"
This was an excellent project. A little more tinkering and it would become quite useful, thanks.
7:20 coolest graphics and music I saw in a while! :-)
Yea peter is a good editor!
thanks for leaking his email i just sent him a ton of bull'*it
nice
Absolute legend right here
Yeah totally agree
Alright, here's my idea. Take an ebike and attach an alternator to it with the appropriate power adapter and wire it to a charger for the battery with a spare battery to it. This way as your riding it charges the battery so that when one runs out you just stop for a moment and switch batteries. I seriously doubt it will give you infinite range or anything like that but it should significantly increase the overall range. Just a thought I had.
Also, I know exactly where your riding! I use to live right next to that trail and I use to ride on it everyday. It's a nice place to ride or walk!
I was wondering if anyone had tried this yet. Thanks for saving me some work! Are they Harbor Freight panels?
"There's a lot of sunshine to get skin cancer" Love Peter's humor
loved the way you managed to place the sponsor in your vid
Cool design although I’d expect a car to eventually not anticipate a solar panel trailer and accidentally run them over. Maybe some vertical carbon fiber tubes with some reflectors or high visibility tape or something could mitigate that
is this star wars?
@@thewierdlemon5956 No , this is Patrick
I came to say that makes nice shade under it
Increase the speed and put the panels overhead. Don't just make a toy...make a concept.
Exactly what i was thinking
Joel Rampersad Build your own!
I'm not as talented as those guys. We are all voyeurs here.