Detailed Question About Flywheel Energy Storage

Your post question does not quite match your thread title "detailed question about flywheel energy storage". Not a lot of detail.

Are you asking about regenerative braking? This

is a Kinetic Energy Recovery System, used in Formula One race cars. It recovers energy from braking, and makes this energy available for acceleration. Is this your general idea? This "energy storage" comes from the title, not the question.

Or, is this flywheel used to stabilize the vehicle? Or, is this flywheel intended to replace your battery? Or... ???

Well now, a flywheel for an electric scooter. "Now - is it possible to get some information?" back at ya. What's it supposed to do? How much power do you require? Do you know how flywheels are rated?

No info, no price.

Dear Lynlynch- since you live in Arizona, which I was told, is a pretty warm place on earth, like the valley of Beit She'an where I do live, and me too a "farm boy"-I preferred to ask you:

My idea is to use a flywheel first to replace the battery of an assistance electric 500w motor for a mt.bicycle, and I want to compare the price to the lithium battery of the same output. I thought about the flywheel, because I read that it competes with usual batteries.

And I thought that maybe, that a flywheel could store energy for electric scooters as well.

Thank you in advance

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"Flywheels have also been proposed as a power booster for electric vehicles. Speeds of 100,000 rpm have been used to achieve very high power densities, however containment of the high speed rotor in case of accident or mechanical failure would require a massive enclosure negating any power density advantages. The huge gyroscopic forces of these high speed flywheels are an added complication. Practicalities have so far prevented the large scale adoption of flywheels for portable applications."

From:

Alternative Energy Storage Methods including supercapacitors ...

Flywheels are too delicate and expensive for your application.

Good luck.

I first want a really detailed explanation of your education background and at least a 100 word explanation of your understanding of the concept of a "Detailed Question."

Oh and while your at it, could you kindly deliver to me any working non-patented prototypes for my evaluation.

My tummy hurts.

Small flywheel means energy stored will be small and cost will be high. Like compressed air storage (for EV's) the cost/performance ratio will be poor. Do the research and go through the calculations and you will understand the problems.

Any machinist can make it for you and the price would depend on ordered number of this.