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It is resistant to mud, fire, water, allows you to ride a bike up to 25 km/h with a range of 40 km, to charge a phone and treats ingrown toenails! Gursaurabh Singh’s bike electrification kit is a small miracle.
© Dhruv Vidyut – DVECK
Gursaurabh Singh could hit the jackpot. He is indeed at the origin of the DVECK, a clever conversion kit that makes it very easy to electrify any bicycle. His discovery takes the form of a large block to be fixed just above the pedal board and requires absolutely no mechanical knowledge.
The kit offers a maximum speed of 25 km/h for a payload of 170 kg and a range of about forty kilometres. You only need to pedal for 20 minutes to recharge your battery to 50%. The simplicity of installation, but also its ability to withstand bad weather, mud, extreme heat and even fire make it a system perfectly suited to the Indian market and all other emerging countries. The icing on the cake, the DVECK can also act as a mobile phone charger.
The presentation video is a pure delight: against a backdrop of Bollywood music, we see the inventor give a demonstration with a good dose of humor. We see him pull a bike out of a swamp, set the DVECK on fire and extinguish it by pouring liters of water, all with a smile and demonstrating that his engine is constantly running. Note however that it is no longer possible to pedal once the kit is in place, and that the installation should not be as simple as advertised since it is necessary to place an acceleration handle with a cable connected to the kit. . We know something…
It sounds too good to be true, and a few days before April 1st, we are on the verge of thinking of a superb hoax. However, the information is widely taken up by the media, in particular theIndiaTimes and the RTBF. There are still a few unknowns such as the price and availability of the DVECK.
Gursaurabh Singh very recently received support from Anand Mahindra, the chairman of the powerful Indian conglomerate bearing his name. Nothing is signed yet, but it could contribute to its mass production and distribution. Today, more than half of India’s population, or some 800 million people, commute mainly by bicycle every day.