Originally Posted by
Thor29
Depending on fitness level etc, a reasonable sustainable power output for a human is 75 to 150 watts. For comparison, the Zero electric motorcycle puts out 4000 watts. So if you were to add human power, you would only be increasing the available power by 2 to 4%. Big deal.
The zero's battery holds 4000 watt-hours. Say a person can put out 150 watts for 8 hours. That's 1200 watt hours. So adding a person gives us closer to 30% more power, not 4%.