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Guy Makes 'Dodgy E-Bike' From 130 Used Vapes To Make Point About E-Waste
06 Nov 2024 | Abstracted from Arstechnica
"Chris Doel took 130 disposable vape batteries (the bigger "3,500 puff" types with model 20400 cells) found littered at a music festival and converted them into a 48-volt, 1,500-watt e-bike battery, one that powered an e-bike with almost no pedaling more than 20 miles
To be clear: Do not do this.
"We are tossing out a lot of battery materials that could be doing a lot of other things."
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