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Do you see where I am seated?

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This is what we bring you on this
episode of R&D Africa on AAU TV.

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The spotlight has been put on the young
Lawrence Adjei, who has been able to make

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this electronic motorcycle
from dead laptop batteries.

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Stay tuned.
We'll bring you more.

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In an era where environmental protection,
fitness and green travel

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are increasingly being valued and
practiced by people,

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what comes to mind when
transportation that allows you

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to avoid road traffic congestion,

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be green and environmentally
friendly is mentioned.

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Electric bicycles or e-bikes
are equipped with electric devices

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activated to assist
or replace peddling.

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They provide a number of benefits.

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They are fuel efficient, faster,
reduces traffic congestion

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and are mostly non-pollutant.

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Inventors mainly rely on
batteries such as lithium-ion,

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nickel-cadmium,

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lithium-cobalt batteries

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lead acid,

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nickel-metal hydrate,

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lithium-magnanese

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and lithium-ion polymer
batteries as the accessories.

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Interestingly, a young
Ghanaian, Lawrence Adjei

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has added to the innovations
in the electric bike industry.

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He uses sports laptop
batteries, which he purchases

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from scrap yards and computer
shops in Accra to make his unique e-bikes.

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He is known to be the first
Ghanian to make electric bicylces

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from sports laptop batteries
and he is self-taught.

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I stay close to Lawrence and
I happen to be his co-helper.

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This is not my first time riding.

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I've been riding for two years now.

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The experience is different.

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Different. I can't even compare
because riding a normal bicycle...

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is full of pain.

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And then you actually admire the
kind of kilometers you need to go.

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So this is really different compared
to the ones I have ever used.

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This has three gears
and then the others don't.

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It has a brake which charges the battery
back when applying, the others don't have.

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It has a USB spot which
can charge your phone

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or use a USB light.

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Which others don't have.

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And then it also has a bell,
the others didn't have a bell.

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And then the brakes are instant stop.

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They stop instantly.

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Next. Coming to the battery,

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it has a large capacity,
which you can even

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give a house a light.

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This is where Mr. Lawrence
AJ makes all the inventions.

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This is where the
creation of electric bicycles

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made out of dead
laptop batteries happens and

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I'm currently here with Mr. Lawrence.

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Take us through
the process involved in the

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usage of these batteries
to make the electric bicycle.

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So you have the batteries here.

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So, you just crack them like this.

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You sometimes bend it or...

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or use a plier.

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Okay

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You can see that we
don't use all the cells.

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This one is here, the bud.

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- Okay
- You can't use this one, so

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You find a different one.

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Try another one.

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Same.

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This one is okay, So you take
like the motherboard

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- of the battery. So...
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So taking them off

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[Inaudible]

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Then take the cells out like this.

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Okay

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So in total, how many
of these do you need?

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