Well, I need a break from home work life. An adventure of sorts. I am going to the Permaculture Convergence in Turangi, so I figure if I am trying to prove electric bikes are a viable form of transport, I should probably ride there. So I have been frantically converting a Yuba Mundo to electric. With 1kw hour of battery, I can travel 100km on a charge, with a...

Well, EVLAB is comfortably in its new space, upstairs at The Cycle Center, 15 main street Upper Hutt. Still boxes around, will sort that out later, bikes to build right now! Call in and say hi if your in the area! We will be at the Kapiti sustainable living show on the weekend of the 24th and 25th. Tweet

Had to happen. EVLAB is moving into Upper Hutt where we have leased the upstairs showroom in The Cycle Center. Here I will have all our parts and builds on show along with our conversion and repair workshop. I will also have my other business, Cargobikes NZ here as well with the Yuba and Christiania Trikes. I am moving this week, I am about to unplug my...

Turned up at the local bmx track with the cargo bike and this is what happened. Tweet

I have had warnings from my suppliers of the goings on with rear earths in china and the massive increases, upto 40% in the cost of the magnets in the motors. I will be getting new rear 2808 motors in January with some upgrades to suit more aggressive riding and NZ conditions. However the prices I have been quoted should mean very little increase in price. Here...

Source: Life Cycle Assessment of Transportation Options for Commuters, page 11. In her Life Cycle Assessment of Transportation Options for Commuters, Shreya Dave at MIT analyzed the complete life cycles of various modes of transportation to compare their environmental impacts. As you’d expect, human powered forms of transportation are much less polluting...

On the 24th of September, we had our first comming together of electric bike riders in Wellington. 6 Riders rode their bikes to Waitangi Park in wellington, along with 500 other 350 supporters for the moving planet event. EVLAB had a checkpoint for the event where people could come and ride a range of bikes including the new Ezee Yuba cargo bike. Lots of fun was...

Well, we are having an unpresendented snow storm here in NZ. Naturally its a chance to get out and have some fun! Tweet

EVLAB cargo bikes make bike of the week on American Electric Bike web site. Nice to have my work recognised off shore, Thanks...

These 2 beautiful bikes have rolled in for hi performance off road conversions. Both to have rear Nine Continent motors laced into heavy duty down hill rims. New to EVLAB builds on these bikes will be the new large screen cycle analyst along with fresh in HI Power LED lighting designed specifically for EVLAB electric bike aplication. These two bikes belong to a...

I have 2 stunning electric Yuba Mundo cargo bikes for sale. Both with 36volt 15 ah LifePO4 batteries. 700watt peak direct drive hub motors with regenerative braking. Cruise control on request. These bikes have a range of around 35km in normal loaded cargo bike use. Upgrades on request are LED lights which run of the bike battery. Cycle Analyst trip...

Due to continuing strong NZ dollar,  prices for all EVLAB batteries have been reduced. Tweet

Well, apart from the rain, we had a great weekend at the Kapiti Show. The two cargo bikes I got finished last week and took up were ridden nonstop all day on Saturday, with 3 and even 4 kids on the back. We ended up with a queue of kids wanting rides around the show. Many of them willing to pay for a ride, but that’s not really on when it only costs 20...

An influx of requests for 28″or 900c motors this week. While I did not order any ready assembled 900c motors we can build one up for you. You can use one of our double wall rims or supply your own rim. There is a $40 fee to re-lace the wheel to the new size rim. No charge for the rim if you are buying the motor. We have 20″, 24″ and...

Naturally, people are interested in how powerfull there setup will be. Apart from cost, this is the other main driving factor. Most people just want good help up hills. The problem is that different people talk about power output in different ways, so two bikes that are both rated 300watts might perform quite different to each other. Here at EVLAB we are not...

A big shipment of the famous Nine Continent motors and controllers arrived shortly after New Year. Now remains the task of photographing all the items and getting them up on the website. I have both front and rear motors in the small light weight 115 size, good for a basic commuter bike and the large 204 size set up for hauling up those New Zealand hills. While...

Well I am slowly adding product to the store.  Motors, controller and lights to come. My goal now is to open the store on the 1st of October to coincide with the GST change. Spring has arrived,  and along with it emails from people wanting to get there bikes converted. I currently have 3 bike builds, 1 which is as good as sold, 1 which will be my demo bike,...

Yes, here we are! After nearly 3 years of word of mouth bike building EVLAB have a website and an online shop (almost). Here you can keep track of EVLAB projects, find out the latest parts for your EV and see what great things  the world is up to in this exploding transition away from fossil fuels. I have set up small photography studio in my office and will be...