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MIT announced, Friday 10/10, a new project, SmartBiking, aimed at further facilitating the use of bicycles, already pervasive in Copenhagen as part of the next UN conference on climate change be held in November 2009 in the Danish capital. The main thrust of this initiative is communication between cyclists, who can share information and their relative positions.

But another aspect of this project should lead to the development of a solution of electric assist bicycle incorporating the recovery of braking energy. This should result in reduced power consumption. The laboratory SENSEable City Lab, which is piloting this project, has provided very little information so far on the Smart Biking Green Wheel system. The only useful point that we can add to the diagram above, is that everything is there, in the rear wheel hub, including the battery. Convenient, no? Especially if one considers that this approach allows to consider practically any motorized bicycle exists.

Recall that the electric assist bicycle, amplifying the muscular effort, allows a cyclist to start lambda on journeys that could or would do to the sheer force of his legs. And that a modest energy cost. The electrically assisted bikes can therefore compete with the bike and car into new territories.

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