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Hollow Volt Bike
A light electric bicycle: a hub motor in the back wheel, a battery in the frame and a little gauge on the top tube. With charge it hums along a bit faster than a minibike; when the battery is flat you simply pedal it.
How it works
- Learn it at Vehicle Adventures 40, together with the Hollow Charging Station, and build it at a workbench (bicycle chassis, handlebars and wheels, two car batteries, electrical parts and a headlight).
- Ride it like a bicycle. With charge the motor does the work: sprinting costs no stamina.
- Battery flat? Keep going: you pedal at bicycle speed, and sprinting on the pedals costs stamina like on a normal bicycle. The motor starts again by itself once it has charge.
- Charge it at a powered Hollow Charging Station: park it with the battery (the middle of the frame) within about 3 m of the station. A cable runs across, the station pulses amber and its ring fills; empty to full takes about 45 game minutes.
- The gauge on the top tube shows the charge: green, amber below half, a blinking red cell when it is low or flat.
Tips
- A full battery rides about 30 km, roughly two days of normal use. The fuel ring on the driving HUD shows CHARGE; gas cans do nothing for it.
- Road skills count: Hypermiler makes the battery last longer, Extended Cells stretches a full charge further and Fast Charge charges it faster at the station.
- It takes one mod, its own Volt Bike Headlamp (Vehicle Adventures 41): a small lamp on the stem that lights the way at night. Vanilla vehicle mods do not fit it.
- Dyes recolour the frame; the wheels, saddle and black covers keep their colour.
- One rider, no storage: it is a bicycle with a motor, not a pack mule.