Free Electric bike: An innovative way to retain ‘energy’

Energy saved is energy retained! There have often been complains about having no time to work out and also lots of energy (electricity) being wasted.

But now here’s something that can solve both the conundrums. Here is an innovative way to retain energy and, how about if you can do it at the same time? Well, here we are talking about both muscle energy and electricity.

Surprised? You need not to.  Here is a solution.

Manoj Bhargava, the founder of the Free Electric hybrid bike says it is possible to generate electricity at home while simply doing a daily workout routine.

When an individual pedals the bike, the action drives a flywheel, which turns a generator and charges the battery. This means from just one hour of pedalling, a rural household can be supplied with energy for 24 hours.

The billionaire and his team have developed the bicycle to take advantage of mechanical energy created by humans to solve one of the world’s most pervasive problems.

“Everything requires energy. Energy is the great equaliser,” says Bhargava, adding that over half of the world’s population have no access to electricity or access to electricity for two or three hours per day. One bicycle could potentially provide a small village with electricity if each household spends on hour per day pedalling the bike.

In developed nations, the bike could also be utilized to cut energy costs and remedy the obesity crisis and, most importantly, this free power invention has the potential to lift the 1.3 billion people who presently live without electricity out of poverty.