Dudel, or as we know him around these parts “Scoop Doggy Dog”, has a hot scoop for ya like a big ‘ole ball of sticky rice (with a side of Hawaiian macaroni salad and some teriaki chicken… Man, I need to each some lunch and I wish we had a Noho’s here).
As I was saying, Honda has some electric innovations of their own that hit the patent office today. Here’s what Dudel has distilled from the 28 page report containing 16 patent claims and 20 drawings.
Everybody is working on electric scooter technology. Honda patented the technology for “a drum brake unit on a rear wheel rotated by drive force of an electric motor… fins act as a heat sink to dissipate heat generated by the drum brake unit, and to resist heat transfer from the drum brake unit to the electric motor, helping to more efficiently cool the electric motor.”
Ahhh, I see. A rear drum brake / electric motor that efficently keeps its cool.
Under the seat you can see the power plug and a removable bed pan. Wait, no… that’s a removable storage which can be replaced with a net if you prefer to air your goods in the wind.
All I can say is I’m REALLY digging all the effort the big guys are making… With Honda, Piaggio, Vectrix and others working to produce quality electrics all we need is a serious quantum leap in electricity storage and BLAM! Electric scooters will be zooming all over your town… unless GM makes an electric Hummer first… then the dinosaurs will live on.
22. August 2007 at 4:07 pm
Steve,
thanks for the post. Being a supporter of Green technology this is very interesting. I am also interested in excatly what Honda may have patented as E-bykes as we are all aware have been around for sometime.
Was the Honda patent filed with the US patent office and do you have the Honda patent number so that I can look at it in greater detail?
thanks for teh good work, Jock
22. August 2007 at 4:34 pm
Sure Jock!
You can either click on the title link and open a FreePatentsOnline account OR just search for United States Patent 7249644.
Enjoy! And please keep us informed if you discover something exciting in your research.
2. April 2008 at 5:18 pm
Two days ago, I wrote an article about a report I had heard on the local radio, concerning the banning of electric bicycles and electric scooters. I was stunned to hear that our government was actually considering this sort of a ban because it reeked of tyranny. Well, I had more email shot to me about this subject than you could shake a stick at.
To read my initial report on this Click Here:“http://www.electricbikesnscooters.com”
Several people had told me that they had heard similar reports about this and that the ban was actually going to be on the batteries themselves and not the ebikes. The idea was that the batteries were considered explosive and dangerous and if they were in the wrong hands, that they could be used for some nasty things.
I called the local news channel and scanned their Website and could find nothing on the report. The person at the news desk told me that sometimes on rare occasions they are told to run certain news items just to see what type of reaction it would get.(Of course this person demanded that I not say his name or the name of the radio station or he would just claim that I was an out right liar.) But, he at least told me that I had heard correctly, that he could not confirm the source of the report….At this time.
However, I received some very distressing email from several people. One of the emails I received was from a man that I will call “Mr.X” for now. He basically told me that I should shut up about the ban report and that he could make life miserable for me if I kept talking. I have been in the Internet business for years now and have never had a threat like this one, so, naturally I was shocked. I have since submitted the email to the proper authorities and will pursue this threat very seriously. The reason that I am taking this threat seriously is because he knew intimate details about my businesses and he said he worked with IRS on occasion.
I believe passionately in alternative fuel vehicles like electric bikes and electric scooters and I will do anything I can to promote their cause.
I am pursuing this issue with an investigation and will let you know more about this as time goes on.
ELMO
14. April 2008 at 6:47 am
Hi Steve,
i have read your articles and I am really interested in such a vehicle. I’am leading a reasearch for the school concerning electrically powered scooter and it would be really interesting to read the whole document you were referring to.
Colud you please send it to me or tell me a link where I can find it?
Thank you very much,
Alessandra