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Samsung claims they can double the power of lithium cells. http://www.businesskorea.co.kr/article/11188/more-energy-samsung-develops-tech-double-lithium-battery-capacity

Beat me to it. Here is the full text from the article. Looks interesting for sure. Chemists at the University of Waterloo have discovered the key reaction that takes place in sodium-air batteries that could pave the way for development of the so-called holy grail of electrochemical energy...

This is interesting: PATHION Announces Breakthroughs in Safe High-Energy Lithium Ion Batteries Enhancements to solid-state advanced electrolytes deliver on supercapacitor-plus-battery combinations and performance levels up to four times greater than current technologies - all with high degrees...

Bought the kit on Ebay for 299 searching was for "Fat Bike Motor" I think.

Fat Tire bike build - posted. I put some pics up. Thx guys it is up and running!!

Short story - I road a friends ebike at work and caught the bug for an electric bike. I had also wanted a fat bike since I lived at the beach and decided to kill two birds with one stone. I bought an Origin8 Crawler fat tire bike from Ebay. It had the Nuvinci hub in the rear so I went with a...

Thanks! Next question - Cycle Analyst. Is it possible/reasonable to hook one up to this setup?

I was confused there are 6 wires on the throttle connector...

Yet another new battery technology announced. Aluminum about 1/2 the voltage of lithium. http://phys.org/news/2015-04-ultra-fast-aluminum-battery-safe-alternative.html

I have clarified the wheel does fit the front forks. I think because it is a fat tire bike the front dropouts are the same width as the rear dropouts on a normal tire size bike? I assume they use the same spindle/motor combo for regular rears and use them on the front. I may be confused on this...

In addition it appears my rim with motor has an area for the cassette to go making me think it is a Rear wheel motor even though the auction said Front wheel specifically. I have not tried to fit it waiting for feedback from the seller. I may see if there is a reasonable way to secure it this...

Here you go: Controller has no obvious on/off switch.

**updates** Bike and Motor kit is firmly in hand. The rim with the motor seems very heavy duty. In my hands it feels more like a motorcycle rim than a bicycle rim. The spokes are much thicker than on my other rims. I'll keep an eye on it to see if it develops issues but on first examination...

I will definitely take the wheel into the bike shop here that deals with fat tire bikes to check it out. Better safe than sorry. Thank you for the battery recommendations. The thought of dropping another 1000.00 on a battery any time soon is painful. Are there options for a cheaper DIY test...

@nutspecial - Battery still up in the Air I'm wide open to ideas on this one. @dogman dan - I'll keep an eye on the spokes. I found this kit on ebay by searching for "Fat TIre Bike Motor" from some seller named Victor Studio. Looks like another seller named DevicesPro is selling the same kit...