{"id":1798,"date":"2025-03-20T20:14:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T12:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leafmotor.com\/blog\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2025-03-20T20:14:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T12:14:25","slug":"general-request-for-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leafmotor.com\/blog\/general-request-for-information\/","title":{"rendered":"general request for information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just bought a gas moped (49cc) and plan to convert it to electric. It looks like I&#8217;ll need at least 1500W rear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafbike.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">hub motor<\/a>, although I&#8217;m willing to go higher if needed (2000W?). Someone on a forum indicated that you do custom windings and I should reach out to you, but I&#8217;m not an engineer and can only describe how I&#8217;ll use the moped &#8211; I can&#8217;t offer what specs are best, or if this is within what you can offer.<\/p>\n<p>I would prefer a solid wheel (no spokes) but on your site those only go to 1000W hub motor?<\/p>\n<p>The original moped rear wheel is 17&#8243; with a M62 3-17 tire. I haven&#8217;t removed the tire to get the exact fork distance, but I think it is around 175mm<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t need a high top speed, 20 mph maximum and mostly I will be in the 0-10 mph range. However, it will be constantly going up and down hills, including several hundred feet of about 15 degree incline. So, I need good low-speed torque.<\/p>\n<p>I weigh about 200 lbs, and the moped (and the tools I&#8217;ll be carrying) adds another 100-150 lbs.<\/p>\n<p>This will never be used on public roadways, only on my farm. I live in the USA.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t started looking at controllers or batteries yet.  My first step is to identify the best hub motor option, then I can worry about the rest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just bought a gas moped (49cc) and plan to convert it to electric. It looks like I&#8217;ll need at least 1500W rear hub motor, although I&#8217;m willing to go higher if needed (2000W?). Someone on a forum indicated that &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafmotor.com\/blog\/general-request-for-information\/\">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":[13],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-1798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hub-motor","tag-hub-motor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leafmotor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798","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=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.leafmotor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1799,"href":"https:\/\/www.leafmotor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions\/1799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leafmotor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leafmotor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leafmotor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}