Lit Motors AEV: Gyrostabilized Enclosed 2-Wheeler

[sanman]

It's like an electric car, but with just 2 wheels - and it says upright using gyro-stabilization from internal flywheels.



I wonder if there could somehow be a way to make the battery and flywheel both one and the same?
After all, why should the flywheel be dead weight? Make it also serve as a battery (or another way of saying it, is make the battery into a flywheel)
Anybody see what I mean?

 

[sanman]

 

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[sanman]

AEV stands for Auto-balancing Electric Vehicle, by the way

 

[Loulit01]

It's like an electric car, but with just 2 wheels - and it says upright using gyro-stabilization from internal flywheels.



I wonder if there could somehow be a way to make the battery and flywheel both one and the same?
After all, why should the flywheel be dead weight? Make it also serve as a battery (or another way of saying it, is make the battery into a flywheel)
Anybody see what I mean?

Flywheels are heavy, batteries are heavy, spin a battery as a flywheel?

You're going to die.

 

[sanman]

Flywheels are heavy, batteries are heavy, spin a battery as a flywheel?

You're going to die.

Depends on the battery technology being used. Solid state batteries, the newest technology, don't use liquid electrolytes -- the only thing that moves inside them are electrons.
Multiple announcements are now coming out or about to come out:

https://insideevs.com/news/760462/bmw-solid-state-prototype-testing/

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