Talk:Autoped

Electric version
Was there really a version of the Autoped with an electric motor? This comment on Reddit as well as the cited link say otherwise. The "electric" versions of the Autoped seems to have had a battery for powering the lighting and ignition but a gasoline-powered motor. I don't have access to the source cited in the article. But I do find the battery-powered ignition and lighting much more credible than a battery-powered motor (considering the state of battery design in the early 20th century). Can anybody clarify this?

--Keilandreas (talk) 11:01, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

It would refer to the ignition system. A batteryless system uses a magneto that generates the pulses when the motor spins. If you've seen someone pull the cord on a lawnmower, chainsaw, or snowmobile, that's a batteryless system. A system with a battery uses an ignition coil instead, to it's self-starting, you just turn the key. To keep the battery charged, an alternator, spun by the motor, provides lower voltage direct current.

Habanero-tan (talk) 00:09, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

Wheel size
I was contemplating adding some info from a 1957 source; I then found the 15 inch which corresponds with my source, and was in the initial upload, was then changed (in this diff) by the main contributor for 10 inch, based on a modern website source ("The project "ScooterManiac" was born in 2002..."), now dead, looks like a WP:SPS then-owned by Florian Jacquet from Provence, France. I've given up on this, as with every article, too much down time.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 17:12, 12 September 2019 (UTC)