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Guy makes “dodgy e-bike” from 130 used vapes to make point about e-waste (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 month ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Disposable vapes are indefensible. Many, or maybe most, of them contain rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, but manufacturers prefer to sell new ones.

To make a point about how wasteful this practice is—and to also make a pretty rad project and video—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. You can see the whole build and watch Doel zoom along trails on his YouTube video.

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[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

really? they're almost as common as cigarette butts once were now. are you a hermit?

[–] bluewing@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

I wouldn't claim to be all that enamored of humans as a rule. But I'm not a hermit in the classic sense.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

The basement has been good to me to.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've never seen a discarded vape, but I've seen a lot of people vaping, as well as a lot of cigarettes and butts. That said, I spend almost zero time downtown, so my exposure is mostly my work parking lot and a few stores.