Phillip Carlson

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I bought this bike from eRider in Melbourne. It is the PDT (Plugin Drive Tech) version with a 350A Sevcon controller.

www.erider.com.au

Here is a forum with my findings:

http://visforvoltage.org/forum/11326-erider-8000w-scooter-australia-similar-xm5000li

I live around the Belconnen area so if you see a dead quiet red scooter that will be me :-)

The bike runs on 24 LiFePo4 cells (CHL) to make 72v. I am a big guy and it can quite easily get me up and over 100km/h. The batteries are fantastic low impedance cells, MUCH better than thundersky cells on the loan scooter I had. They are rated at 50Ah but it looks like I should be able to get around 53Ah from them, but I'm not going to try that until I get a BMS on it in November. I have a cycle analyst installed to count my Ah used in real time and I can comfortably get from Melba, to Fyshwick, Woden, Belconnen without a problem. I can easily get 60km per charge but my longest trip so far is 64km and that used 44.8Ah (50Ah cells) I still had not lost any power but the voltage was sagging to 69.8v under 115A load so I gently rode it home to charge.

I bought a red one and my wife has bought the blue one. Both are going great, after 1 week, I have nearly 570km without a problem.