Advance Carbon Fiber Electric Bike


Thinking caps on because this takes some imagination to digest. The HMK 561 is a carbon fiber bike with special electrical properties that hold power right inside the frame.

Carbon fiber is highly conductive so the designer uses it as a power distribution network instead of wires. The power drives the lights and the motors in between the rims but get this… there’s regenerative braking. All that energy drives a system that turns the wheels using a counter-turning axel in lieu of gears and chains. Far fetched? No, because there’s already a prototype.


Website:www.ralfkittmann.de/

One Response to “Advance Carbon Fiber Electric Bike”

  1. Mikko March 13, 2010 at 3:46 pm #

    I wonder why there are not pictures of anyone sitting on the bike.

    The seat is roughly on the same height as on a normal bicycle. The wheels seem to be about same size also. But unlike a bicycle bottom bracket, the foot pegs of this thing a about 15 centimeters upwards from the axles…

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