Just take the wheel off, put a GreenWheel equipped wheel on in its place, plug it in and it should work just fine," said Ryan Chin, one of the GreenWheel designers. "The whole thing has been designed so all the parts except the throttle are enclosed in the wheel."
From the outside, the GreenWheel has the radius of a small dinner plate and is about 2 inches thick. Inside the aluminum frame sits the three major GreenWheel components: an electric generator, batteries and an electric motor. via dsc.discovery.com
Just wondering if this technology could be used to improve current products that are available to turn manual wheelchairs into power wheelchairs - or at least bring down the cost of these devices, which can be up to five thousand dollars or more.
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