Battery Guard : Designing a Charging Station for E-bikes in Dutch Public Environments

The e-bike trend is getting bigger and bigger all around the world, in Europe the number of new e-bikes sold during 2019 exceeded 3,5 million accounting for 17% of all bike sales (CONEBI, 2020). In the Netherlands it is more than a trend, e-bikes are everywhere and since 2018 there are more new e-bikes sold in the Netherlands than new regular bikes (Bovag, 2020). However, e-bikes charging anywhere poses potential risk since the batteries used in e-bikes are mostly li-ion batteries (Recharge, 2018). Li-ion batteries can get unstable due to several reasons, most common is that this happens durin... Mehr ...