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 immediately from the solar. In true impartial charging kind, the Photo voltaic Charging Package from JackRabbit retains riders rolling even when there’s not a handy AC outlet in sight.
Unveiled this week, the Photo voltaic Charging Package 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 Package plugs immediately into your bike,” defined the corporate, “letting you recharge while not having an outlet, however with a pace corresponding to the charger that comes with the OG/OG2 (42V, 2A).”
That might 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 definately’re proper – it’s. However JackRabbit is all about going micro, providing barely 25 lb rideables which are straightforward to retailer and produce on adventures, even once they aren’t truly being ridden.
With small batteries that match below the 160Wh restrict for a lot of airways within the US, the batteries could be rapidly charged and brought to the widest variety of areas. And for riders that need 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 gives a lot bigger Rangebuster batteries, although they gained’t cross by TSA and make it onto an airplane in your private merchandise.
It sounds just like the Photo voltaic Chargking Package ought to be capable of cost up JackRabbit’s massive RangeBuster batteries, although seemingly in additional than three hours.
The $349 Photo voltaic Charging Package is a bit pricier than constructing one thing related your self, but it surely’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 look extra like a typical bike), but it surely’d in all probability work for almost 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 pattern that’s definitely appreciated by outdoor and tenting lovers, pageant goers, or anybody who finds themself and their bike spending prolonged intervals within the nice, sunny outdoor.
