Do you see where I am seated?
This is what we bring you on this episode of R&D Africa on AAU TV.
The spotlight has been put on the young Lawrence Adjei, who has been able to make
this electronic motorcycle from dead laptop batteries.
Stay tuned. We'll bring you more.
In an era where environmental protection, fitness and green travel
are increasingly being valued and practiced by people,
what comes to mind when transportation that allows you
to avoid road traffic congestion,
be green and environmentally friendly is mentioned.
Electric bicycles or e-bikes are equipped with electric devices
activated to assist or replace peddling.
They provide a number of benefits.
They are fuel efficient, faster, reduces traffic congestion
and are mostly non-pollutant.
Inventors mainly rely on batteries such as lithium-ion,
nickel-cadmium,
lithium-cobalt batteries
lead acid,
nickel-metal hydrate,
lithium-magnanese
and lithium-ion polymer batteries as the accessories.
Interestingly, a young Ghanaian, Lawrence Adjei
has added to the innovations in the electric bike industry.
He uses sports laptop batteries, which he purchases
from scrap yards and computer shops in Accra to make his unique e-bikes.
He is known to be the first Ghanian to make electric bicylces
from sports laptop batteries and he is self-taught.
I stay close to Lawrence and I happen to be his co-helper.
This is not my first time riding.
I've been riding for two years now.
The experience is different.
Different. I can't even compare because riding a normal bicycle...
is full of pain.
And then you actually admire the kind of kilometers you need to go.
So this is really different compared to the ones I have ever used.
This has three gears and then the others don't.
It has a brake which charges the battery back when applying, the others don't have.
It has a USB spot which can charge your phone
or use a USB light.
Which others don't have.
And then it also has a bell, the others didn't have a bell.
And then the brakes are instant stop.
They stop instantly.
Next. Coming to the battery,
it has a large capacity, which you can even
give a house a light.
This is where Mr. Lawrence AJ makes all the inventions.
This is where the creation of electric bicycles
made out of dead laptop batteries happens and
I'm currently here with Mr. Lawrence.
Take us through the process involved in the
usage of these batteries to make the electric bicycle.
So you have the batteries here.
So, you just crack them like this.
You sometimes bend it or...
or use a plier.
Okay
You can see that we don't use all the cells.
This one is here, the bud.
- Okay - You can't use this one, so
You find a different one.
Try another one.
Same.
This one is okay, So you take like the motherboard
- of the battery. So... - Okay
So taking them off
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Then take the cells out like this.
Okay
So in total, how many of these do you need?