{"id":1280,"date":"2025-03-15T08:37:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T00:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leafmotor.com\/blog\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2025-03-15T08:37:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T00:37:54","slug":"fat-electric-bike-motor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leafmotor.com\/blog\/fat-electric-bike-motor\/","title":{"rendered":"fat electric bike motor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With regards to this product 20 inch 48v 2000w rear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafbike.com\/products\/e-bike-hub-motor\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>hub motor<\/strong><\/a> beach snow fat tire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafbike.com\/products\/diy-bike-conversion-kit\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>bike conversion kit<\/strong><\/a>.Will my existing battery and brakes work?I have a 48V 14.5 AH battery and hydraulic brakes.<br \/>\nWhat about hills?  Will it work for that too?  Also will I be able to use a 52v electric bike battery on that hub motor controller?<br \/>\nAlso my current bike, the display has buttons for me to turn on my headlight and tail light, would your system be compatible to turn on and off my headlight and tail lights?<br \/>\nDoes that switch plug and play or do i have to splice into the lights and into the controller?  I want to use the same battery.<br \/>\nDo you sell just the motor?  Maybe I can just plug it into my existing harness and controller?<br \/>\nAlso question peter, I heard geared hub motors have more torque off the line than direct drive gearless?<\/p>\n<p>Your 48v 14.5ah battery can drive it work on flat road.<br \/>\nAlso,you can use your hydraulic brakes.<br \/>\nIf battery\u2019 s current is 30amp or larger 50amp.. can uphill easier..<\/p>\n<p>Work with your 52v battery.<br \/>\nThis controller work with 48v battery (min 40v to max 60v) \u2013 52v still 48v battery, just full charged 48v battery up to 52v or more.<br \/>\nHave to splice into lights and battery. Very easy.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t into controller.<br \/>\nSell just the hub motor is okay. But not sure if works with your controller.<br \/>\nRecommend order motor &#038; controller and other bike parts together.<\/p>\n<p>Now nearly all geared hubs are 250w,max 500w small power.. fit for Europe<br \/>\nWe also have these motors.<\/p>\n<p>1000w,2000w geared hub motors are be eliminated by the market.<br \/>\n* too much noise<br \/>\n* low efficiency<br \/>\n* easy to wear gears<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all 1000w,1500W,2000w,3000w e-bike,e-motorcycle use brushless gearless hub motors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With regards to this product 20 inch 48v 2000w rear hub motor beach snow fat tire bike conversion kit.Will my existing battery and brakes work?I have a 48V 14.5 AH battery and hydraulic brakes. What about hills? Will it work &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafmotor.com\/blog\/fat-electric-bike-motor\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[9,56],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-conversion-kit","category-hub-motor","tag-electric-bike-conversion-kit","tag-hub-motor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leafmotor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leafmotor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leafmotor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leafmotor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leafmotor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.leafmotor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1816,"href":"https:\/\/www.leafmotor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions\/1816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leafmotor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leafmotor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leafmotor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}