Comment by jfim
3 days ago
I wonder if this will allow flying with an ebike battery in disassembled form. The regulations allow up to 100Wh per battery, and an unlimited number of batteries, so transporting the individual cells should be okay, at least in theory.
Lugging an entire suitcase full of 1 kWh worth of batteries might not technically be against regulations, but I imagine you'd be signing yourself up for a long series of headaches at the security checkpoint anyway. To be honest, if I knew that security wouldn't stop me because "it's not technically against regulations", that's exactly what I would do if I wanted to bring down a plane.
Right, that's basically the problem, if one wants to travel by air with an ebike without hassle, there's no real option to do so.
There's the Ligo 10X (https://ebikes.ca/product-info/grin-products/ligo10x-battery...) which makes 99Wh battery packs that can be connected together, but otherwise it just seems like rules lawyering.
There really needs to be standardization of battery packs for ebikes instead of proprietary ones, so that one could rent a battery at their destination.
At that point why not just rent the whole bike and not need to bring the large object onto the plane?
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(Gouach co-founder here) Yes! that's a possibility in theory. You can just remove all the cells, which then become "inert", and the pack set aside. It then only takes 5 min to reassemble them at your arrival.
I would honestly not want to fly on a plane with this or anyone else's ebike batteries. To dangerous.
You don't even want to be in an elevator with them. There are some absolutely horrific videos of how quickly this can get out of hand.