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This is an industrial designed exercise bike from Lithuania that can store 2KWh of electricity generated by your own exercise.
The electricity can then be used for loads of stuff - it has a bunch of DC outputs, like USB-C (up to 60W) and USB-A, and AC outputs (can output up to 2KW - enough for an oven!)
It can also be fed from a solar panel, or the mains.
It’s about 3K EUR, so not much more than a high end Peloton , but obvs serving a *very* different market…
https://www.tukasev.com/en/
This is an industrial designed exercise bike from Lithuania that can store 2KWh of electricity generated by your own exercise.
There’s not enough focus on direct energy usage or storage in general. If you want thermal energy, collect and store thermal energy. If you want mechanical energy, use that directly (and I guess compressed air and hydraulic head count as mechanical energy storage).
What I think would be cool for an exercise bike is to just have a power takeoff of some sort. Lots of bikes use a flywheel already, but even if they didn’t, but you could hook up a PTO to a flywheel or a charger so that in a pinch, you could charge your phone or whatever. Probably wouldn’t want to use it if you had a better option, but nice to have in an emergency. Like those wind up flashlights.
There’s not enough focus on direct energy usage or storage in general. If you want thermal energy, collect and store thermal energy. If you want mechanical energy, use that directly (and I guess compressed air and hydraulic head count as mechanical energy storage).
What I think would be cool for an exercise bike is to just have a power takeoff of some sort. Lots of bikes use a flywheel already, but even if they didn’t, but you could hook up a PTO to a flywheel or a charger so that in a pinch, you could charge your phone or whatever. Probably wouldn’t want to use it if you had a better option, but nice to have in an emergency. Like those wind up flashlights.