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by oulipo 668 days ago
Hey guys! We're engineers/designers from France, and we've built the Ultimate DIY Battery that you can repair and refill!

Check our founder video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsuW1NPkvNk

And a presentation of the battery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLoCihE0eIA

Features are:

- Ride Sustainably with the World's First Repairable Battery

- Refillable in 5 minutes (just buy $150 worth of new cells every 3 years or so, when they're depleted)

- Be Worry-Free thanks to the Fireproof Casing! There's been waaaaaay too many lithium fires!

It's launching as a Kickstarter in September and there is an offer for early-backers here https://get.gouach.com/1 for a 25% discount on the battery!

Follow us here: https://www.instagram.com/gouach.batteries/

1 comments

This is neat, congrats on the invention! Did you get patents? Is the plan to supply or license it to some e-bike kit or e-bike manufacturers?
Thanks so much for your comment!! Appreciated!

Yes, it took us 1.5 years of R&D and we filed 5 patents! We're either licensing the tech or selling the batteries, depending on what each assembler / manufacturer prefers!