Ukrainian Electric Bike: From a Delivery Service to a World Record | Master of Crafts

In this episode of ‘Master of Crafts’:
– An electric bike that can cover hundreds of kilometers on a single charge.
– How two Ukrainian delivery service employees became world-class innovators.
– Will this bike become one of the entries in the Guinness Book of World Records even before its mass production begins?
UATV will tell about this Ukrainian start-up company that undertook to create a personal transport device of the future.
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In today’s program an electric bike that can cover hundreds of kilometers on a single charge how to Ukrainian delivery service employees become world-class innovators well this bike become one of the entries in the Guinness Book of World Records even before it’s mass production begins you ATV will tell about this Ukrainian

Startup company that undertook Korean and a personal transport device of the future the electronic revolution has happened not long ago in the second half of the 20th century the position of the internal combustion engine seemed unshakable as manufacturers did not want to reach the already established market there were plenty of resources and

Environmental problems were not as severe electric motors were of low power and expensive to maintain while hydrogen motors were not profitable and simply dangerous in the end Japan started the mass production of hydrogen sedans and that is not even mentioned in electric cars since with millions of sales around

The world they started winning back the market of obsolete cars the UK and France plan to ban internal combustion engines by 2040 China is also considering abandoning gasoline cars it is merely a question of time economists predict that by 2022 electric cars will become cheaper than traditional cars and

By 2025 at least every 14th vehicle on the road will operate on an electric motor all that is thanks to a breakthrough of scientists with the creation of lighter batteries with higher capacity that can last long enough to be profitable however not only car makers stand to benefit from this

Engineering breakthrough electric bikes and scooters have existed for many years but it just so happened that no large company paid much attention to this market as they dealt exclusively with cars but what happens when a large business misses an opportunity right clever innovative individuals pick up on

This and try to capitalize in such an excellent and lucrative opportunity there are motorcycles that run on gasoline but the niche of the coolest electric motorcycle remains vacant to this day so our goal is to fill this empty space and this is not just a dream danilo

Don’t copy and sir he denisenko claims that they have indeed created the best electric bike in the world right here in kia according to them it has several times more range than any other analog it all started with a self-made bike for delivery service if that is the first

Model based on the frame that with modifications is used in our current Superbike that has a travel range of 420 kilometers but did the Ukrainians really make a technological leap in the creation of electric bikes how much is the world truly interested in such a vehicle and will this super bike be able

To officially beat the world record of trouble distance on one battery charge limitations lead either to disappointment or progress danilo answer he admit that they had never been particularly interested neither in motorcycles nor in bicycles the former is an economist by education and the latter specializes in refrigeration

Devices several years ago they were united by the idea of a joint venture I wanted to order a mobile phone in an online store and they could only deliver tomorrow or the day after tomorrow I was on the phone with their representative and I asked her how much same-day

Delivery would cost hundred or maybe 500 Greve now she replied they could not physically do that so then I asked why pizza can be delivered within half an hour but they couldn’t deliver a mobile phone within the same time frame in less than a few months both Danilo and Andrey

Created a service for the delivery of products in Kiev within an hour in order to deliver the product in time they needed a form of transport that would not get stuck in traffic jams the partners decided to purchase electric bikes from the most popular manufacturers for this to come we’ll

Have enough for any other technical specifications the electric bike could travel 80 kilometers on one battery charge my partner Danilo immediately decided to put the device to the test he sat on the bike and drove only 35 kilometers according to sir he the sellers explained that such a bike

Requires a flat service and a pedaling aid to travel the projected distance of course such models were not suitable for fast delivery around the city with dense traffic so the most obvious solution to this problem was to attach additional batteries to the electric bike is that increase the

Weight of the bike to a hundred kilograms after the first snowfall we put winter tires on it the tires burst every 7 kilometers the same thing happened several times in a row and every additional improvement created new problems in a few months it turned out that even the best bicycle frames were

Not strong enough even for the lightest batteries the loads were down the metal frame and it broke it then became quite clear that we had to redesign the electric bike quoting Thomas Edison I have not failed I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work it’s the same with us

We just found several hundred ways to write an electric bike that won’t work we took the best parts of every kind everything started with kickstands pedals lever controls and everything else and combine them all in the right order he’s company filer possibility mr. Danilo and sir he believed that anyone

Who would devote enough time to the development of electric bikes would achieve the desired results these two young innovators have spent about three years on developing this bike how it’s done it is amazing but the first electricity driven bicycles were patented back in the late 19th century naturally the first models were bulky

And electricity was used only as an auxiliary force a real boom heaven only in the late 1990s Asian countries became the main manufacturers of electric bikes however the range of one battery charge without paddling who is no more than several thousand kilometers up until now it was considered that nobody needed

More advanced electric bikes a sportsman would prefer paddling and delivery services would be able to fulfill their task on mopeds running on diesel fuel realizing that Danilo answer he decided to combine several types of vehicles into one model would you be ok it’s a hybrid there is no classification for electric bikes yet

And we have made a symbiosis between a cross-country motorcycle a mountain bike a motorcycle and a standard bicycle with pedals so it is something in between like a hybrid wig frames turned out to be the main problem with electric bikes parts from the best manufacturers could not withstand the weight of the

Batteries of the required capacity so they had to redesign this electric bike autonomous personal attribute on Electra Baike this new table this frame is especially designed for electric bikes the batteries are placed on it in a convenient way plus the bike is reinforced to withstand the weight of

Batteries and our roads it’s not heavy weighing about 50 kilograms the frames for electric bias designed by Danilo and serhiy are manufactured by Ukrainian company in ternopil the specially reinforced frame houses the newest imported batteries which are the main component that determines one-third of the final price in order for the bike to

Last as long as possible without having to replace the battery it must have the longest life cycle we have tested a lot of different batteries and have now decided to stick to us made batteries as they put out two point five to four point one volts the batteries have more

Recharge cycles not thousand but three thousand such batteries should last 10 years of active use at temperatures from minus 32 plus 30 degrees Celsius they also had to choose a suitable electric engine so that it would be light as efficient as possible and allow for cruising at the highest possible speed

The overall progress in this sphere allowed the Nilo in serhiy to find a successful solution to the problems they came up against which can be considered an impressive feat that they would not have managed to achieve 10 years ago we had several types of engines in use both reductive motors and direct current

Motors we chose DC motors which are more durable and practical in everyday use our engine takes advantage of the principle of regenerative braking which allows to push the brakes meaning that the engine will brake on its own it Road with extra force which at that moment generates energy that recharges the battery

Despite this the energy return indicator is only 8 to 10 percent so it’s rather insignificant than facin however this mechanism preserves the brake pads the most perfect Ukrainian electric bike can reach speeds of up to 80 km/h these Ukrainian inventors also buy the rest of the parts whale’s handlebars sits and

Various devices like GPS modules abroad it takes two days to assemble one bike when all the parts are available after one to four hours of charging the battery the electric bike is ready to roll when Danilo and serhiy finally created the bike of their dreams for the

Delivery service it took some time for them to realize just how unique and practical this new form of transport and electricity that they had invented really was yes we made the bike for ourselves in fact we just satisfied our own needs and tried to bring our concept

To fruition and in the end it worked we had no goal of creating a cool bike that would sell like hotcakes all over the world why like Rania’s decided to attract investors for the production of the most perfect electric bike through crowdfunding Danilo remembers that his

First idea was to film a great promo in the US or in one of the EU countries instead their partners soon abandoned the idea in favor of Ukraine after all Ukraine has something to show for itself and we have things to be proud of so we abandoned the idea going to Europe

Or the u.s. to film American landscapes and that’s it instead we’ve filmed our own Ukrainian roads riding from Kiev to Ravenna which is three hundred and ten kilometers and then even a longer distance to dupe No in total we covered 380 kilometers on one battery charge of all electric bike

In the end the video was made public and improved model into which danila and sir he put all their experience over three years of work raised the needed $50,000 in less than a day however their huge success was accompanied by a measure of skepticism some Internet users did not

Believe that the Ukrainian electric bike could cover such a long distance on one charge of the battery as it seemed to them that this bike was way more advanced in terms of the capabilities in comparison to other similar models there was a lot of negative feedback people

Said we were aligned and did not ride three hundred and eighty kilometers who officially invited representatives of the book of records of Ukraine and also submitted an application to the Guinness Book of World Records we reached an agreement with the Kiev cycling track we plan to start at 1 a.m. and cover a

Distance of 400 kilometers on one battery charge at a speed of 25 kilometers per hour that will take 16 hours an obligatory condition of the record is that the pedals must be blocked so that the driver cannot help the bike in any way danilo and sir he understood that they only have one

Attempt as of an m/l function that is not related to the battery can cancel out all their achievements they face certain difficulties right from the start the bike with the professional cyclists at the helm only set out on its journey six hours later than the scheduled departure time due to heavy rains the

Ride along the loop dragged on throughout the day and until late at night in the end the desired result was not achieved due to the cold weather the batteries discharged quicker than denilla and sir he had expected their bike covered just 368 kilometers without being recharged the surpassing the best

Mileage of its predecessors by several times now the Ukrainian electric bike officially holds the record of the longest mileage on one battery charge however it had already made a world sensation even before the confirmation of the record as Danilo presented one of the models at the largest international bicycle exhibition in Las Vegas

People approach it wide-eyed saying wow 236 miles on one charge that’s 380 kilometers and it several times cooler than the alternatives we sold one bike during the exhibition with Sanok contract with the bike store in New York and we hope to deliver the bike

To the buyer by the end of the year our bike will be on Fifth Avenue it will be sold in New York we also made many contacts around the world in Canada Germany Poland and Australia Germany for Australia Danilo done copy and sir he Dennis anko have no illusions since it’s just the beginning of their great work it was the obliviousness of other electric vehicle manufacturers they created the niche for the Ukrainian inventors but they’re not going to repeat the same mistake their goal is to

Make Ukraine the birthplace of the most perfect electric bike in the world for many years to come so hold on tight it’s time to hit the road and remember it’s electric