Range Extender for a TWIKE

A crew, with a member of the TWIKE developer team, is driving throught the australian outback with a TWIKE in autumn 2007. They are participants of the Greenfleet category at the World Solar Challenge. For more Information visit www.twikeklub.ch

To get the Twike ready for such long distances the Range Extender has been developed and tested within term paper at the university of applied science in Bern.

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[h1smadness]

dumme Leute machen braun aus grün! :((

[remsidave]

@h1smadness Nein, dumme Leute machen dumme Kommentare. Lies mal die Info, es geht nur um die Teilnahme an der World Solar Challenge. Nebenbei gesagt, das Teil hat in seiner Kategorie gewonen. Kann also nicht wirklich braun sein!

[OpCzar]

Just rent a damn car when you're planning longer trips. It's less money than buying this proprietary thing, makes less noise pollution, produces less smog and won't be holding up traffic.

[remsidave]

@OpCzar You haven's read the description. Purpose of this combination was the Greenfleet category at the World Solar Challenge in Australia. And btw. it has won in its category!

[death484698]

der sprecher redet wie Terminator XD

[tkemmere]

My opinion is that this solution is not good.

It goes completely against the purpose and philosophy of the TWIKE, namely to be an environmental friendly and silent mode of transportation.

(Kindly do not delete this comment).

[remsidave]

@tkemmere It's a four stroke engine

[remsidave]

@DeLorean4 it's a for stroke engine run on bio fuel. The twike is a three wheeler, therefore the range extender is the fourth wheel.

[TGLymantaiste]

Why not put a small diesel generator in a trailer. Then you can run the motor at its optimum speed and not have to worry about traction issues.

[demofactory]

So that's how you turn something green... into something brown!!!!!!

[DeLorean4]

The gasoline engine is ridiculous. If it is indeed a two-stroke then it pretty much pollutes just as much as a Trabant. It would have been nice to engineer a generator that runs on bio-diesel, that way, pollutions levels would have been reduced and there wouldn't be the inefficiency of a fifth wheel on the Twike.

[timrocket2008]

I can't believe he pulled up to a gas Station with a TWIKE and put gas in it! Stupid. That thing is Anti Gas! If you want extended range make an electric powered pusher and then quadruple the battery capacity and it will go 3 times further. No Gas needed!