Originally Posted by
seibaatgung
Would it be worth it to equip an ebike with a small portable solar panel on the stem to recharge while sitting idle outdoors? I commute and can only lock my bike outdoors. If I were to get an e-bike, I wonder if I could forget to charge it overnight.
If you have a secure location to park your bike, which I assume you don't since you have to lock it up, but the only way you could charge the bike is to get a 4 panel portable solar charger, cost about $70 on Amazon, you could put some charge into the bike, problem is, if your bike is like my wife's, they don't make the battery compatible to be plugged into a USB port to charge it with, instead there is a large round plug that plugs into a charger, then the charger has a standard wall outlet style plug, portable solar chargers only use USB style plugs.