{"id":133216,"date":"2021-12-28T20:27:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T04:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/radical-new-electric-bike-drive-system-requires-no-chains-or-belts-entirely-ride-by-wire"},"modified":"2021-12-28T20:27:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T04:27:01","slug":"radical-new-electric-bike-drive-system-requires-no-chains-or-belts-entirely-ride-by-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/radical-new-electric-bike-drive-system-requires-no-chains-or-belts-entirely-ride-by-wire","title":{"rendered":"Radical new electric bike drive system requires no chains or belts, entirely ride-by-wire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/radical-new-electric-bike-drive-system-requires-no-chains-or-belts-entirely-ride-by-wire3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>German company Schaeffler has just revealed an innovative new drive system for electric bicycles that eschews traditional bike chains and belts for an entirely electrical-driven system. The new system is known as the Schaeffler Free Drive and marks the entry of one of the most divergent electric bicycle drivetrains we\u2019ve seen in years.<\/p>\n<p>The Free Drive, which was co-developed with electric bicycle drivetrain specialists Heinzmann, is based upon a generator installed at the bike\u2019s bottom bracket.<\/p>\n<p>The rider\u2019s pedaling action powers the generator and converts the energy from mechanical to electrical energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German company Schaeffler has just revealed an innovative new drive system for electric bicycles that eschews traditional bike chains and belts for an entirely electrical-driven system. The new system is known as the Schaeffler Free Drive and marks the entry of one of the most divergent electric bicycle drivetrains we\u2019ve seen in years. The Free [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}