{"id":37728,"date":"2022-12-07T06:40:46","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T11:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=37728"},"modified":"2022-12-07T06:40:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T11:40:46","slug":"six-seater-electric-bike-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=37728","title":{"rendered":"This guy built a six-seater electric bike for $150, and it absolutely rips"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I\u2019ve always enjoyed multi-seater electric bikes<\/a>, which bring passenger-carrying utility to small-format, easy-to-produce vehicles. But I never thought I\u2019d see the concept taken this far. At least not until I stumbled upon a six-seater electric bike that has me all kinds of jealous.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s no surprise where this custom e-bike originated. If you want to see the most creative and ingenious transportation solutions in the world, you have to head over to Asia.<\/p>\n

The Chinese often get a lot of credit for some of the more wacky vehicles popping up on Alibaba<\/a>, but India usually takes the cake with some of the coolest auto and motorcycle innovation on the planet<\/a>. And that\u2019s exactly where this impressive six-seater bike comes from, where it was hand-built by Ashhad Abdullah from Lohra in eastern India.<\/p>\n

Abdullah seems to have caught my recent Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week entry for a three-seater electric bike<\/a> and said \u201cHold my lassi.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Instead of a three-seater, Abdullah doubled the capacity to six seats. His stretch-limousine electric bike looks like it wears a scooter fork on front complete with drum brake, off-road lighting kit, and even a motorcycle horn. The rear seems to hold a hub motor wheel in a swingarm supported by dual coilover shocks. There\u2019s a battery box mounted just in front of the swingarm, though how much capacity he\u2019s rocking seems to be a mystery. <\/p>\n

Bridging the two ends of the bike is a bespoke ladder frame with six seats, six handlebars, and six pairs of foot pegs.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no word on the turning radius, but we\u2019d wager it\u2019s somewhere around the width of the state of Bihar.<\/p>\n

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Abdullah created the custom-designed bike after climbing fuel prices made petrol-powered motorcycles less appealing. In total, he says the bike cost him around 12,000 INR (US $150) to build.<\/p>\n

He explained that it gets a range of around 150 km (93 miles) and costs around 10 INR (US $0.12) to recharge.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure if this is technically an e-bike, at least by electric bicycle standards. It certainly looks like a tandem-style bicycle setup with bicycle seats, but the lack of pedals means it would be classified more like an electric scooter or motorcycle.<\/p>\n

But whatever you call it, the six-seater bike has received a warm reception around the world.<\/p>\n

The novel creation went viral on Twitter after a video of it in action was reposted by Anand Mahindra, the chairman of Mahindra Group, one of the largest automakers in India (and similar in size to GM).<\/p>\n

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With just small design inputs, (cylindrical sections for the chassis @BosePratap<\/a> ?) this device could find global application. As a tour \u2018bus\u2019 in crowded European tourist centres? I\u2019m always impressed by rural transport innovations, where necessity is the mother of invention. pic.twitter.com\/yoibxXa8mx<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) December 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

It\u2019s unlikely we\u2019d see an awesome ride like this in the West, where safety regulations and an unhealthy aversion to two wheels would likely make this six-seater dead on arrival.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll admit that it\u2019s hard for me to argue with the safety concerns, especially when seeing six helmet-less heads and a few bare feet as well. <\/p>\n

There are some good alternatives available in the US, at least if you\u2019re alright with just two-seater e-bikes. But with options like a $999 Lectric XP 3.0<\/a> or a $1,499 RadRunner<\/a> helping put more riders on smaller electric vehicles, the chances for sharing the fun on e-bikes are growing, even in laggard countries like the US.<\/p>\n

We may never get six bodies on one bike, but even two would be a good start!<\/p>\n

via: TimesNowNews<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve always enjoyed multi-seater electric bikes, which bring passenger-carrying utility to small-format, easy-to-produce vehicles. But I never thought I\u2019d see the concept taken this far. At least not until I stumbled upon a six-seater electric bike that has me all kinds of jealous. It\u2019s no surprise where this custom e-bike originated. If you want to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}