Is This The Final “Common” E-Bike Battery, Or Too Good To Be True?

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A French firm is providing what it calls “the world’s final e-bike battery,” a common and user-repairable and serviceable battery mentioned to be suitable with most e-bike manufacturers, which could possibly be a key sustainability innovation for additional decreasing the environmental footprint of micromobility. It additionally claims to be each fireproof and waterproof, each of which may go a good distance in serving to to allay a few of the fears of potential e-bike consumers.

Gouach is the corporate behind the Infinite Battery, which they describe as “the one battery you’ll ever want” in your e-bike, as it may be repaired and “simply serviced” as a substitute of being changed by shopping for an entire new unit. In accordance with the corporate, “When an e-bike battery fails, 90% of the time, its simply 1 or 2 cells which can be lifeless inside or a single digital part.” By enabling the simple identification and substitute of particular person battery cells throughout the unit by the person (in lower than 10 minutes, no much less), the Infinite could possibly be infinitely extra sustainable and DIY-friendly than every other e-bike battery available on the market.

Trying on the claims made concerning the Infinite on the Indiegogo web page, it appears virtually too good to be true. An final common e-bike battery with all of the bells and whistles, absolutely repairable, fireproof and waterproof, that may be repaired by the top person, all for simply $249? It definitely pays to be skeptical about claims like these if you happen to’re contemplating sending a pair hundred bucks over the interwebs for a product that isn’t a completed production-ready mannequin.

Nonetheless, Gouache is correct up entrance concerning the standing of its product being a working demo, basically a prototype, and the corporate has been creating it for concerning the final 5 years, so maybe it truly is the e-bike battery of the longer term and the Infinite is solely the primary of its variety to hit the market.

Extra information concerning the batteries from Gouache is out there on the corporate web site.

[Note: Over the years, we’ve covered plenty of products that were launched via crowdfunding campaigns through sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, and while some have successfully delivered on their promises, other campaigns have either failed to attract enough funding to move forward, or had raised the money but were a victim of their own poor planning and execution, and some were even just straight-up vaporware. We certainly can’t vet every single product or campaign personally, and our coverage isn’t an endorsement of any of them, so it’s worth a reminder that crowdfunding campaigns aren’t a sure thing, and there are inherent risks to backing them. Please do not contribute any money to a crowdfunding campaign that you aren’t prepared to lose, because instead of receiving the product or perk you are expecting, you might end up getting nothing. As in zilch, zip, nada, bupkis. Caveat emptor and all that.]