{"id":26699,"date":"2026-10-07T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T06:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.power-e-bike.fr\/blog\/la-batterie-pour-votre-kit-velo-electrique-power-e-bike-pour-les-nuls-en\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T08:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T06:00:37","slug":"the-battery-for-your-power-e-bike-electric-bike-kit-for-dummies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.power-e-bike.fr\/blog\/en\/the-battery-for-your-power-e-bike-electric-bike-kit-for-dummies\/","title":{"rendered":"The battery for your Power-e-bike electric bike kit, for dummies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is my small contribution to the blog, with this little article titled:<\/p>\n<h2>The battery of your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.power-e-bike.fr\">Power-e-bike<\/a> electric bike kit for dummies.<\/h2>\n<p>To begin, I think that like me, you must have asked yourself at the time of your purchase at power e-bike:<\/p>\n<p> &#8211; what would be the ideal battery to buy with this kit?<\/p>\n<p>First of all, here is what I can tell you about that:<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, you will need to define the ideal power to select for your kit; the simplest trick is to base yourself on the power output of an average cyclist, i.e. about 150-300 Watts.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 522px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.power-e-bike.fr\/img\/co\/82.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.power-e-bike.fr\/img\/co\/82.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">electric bike pack 35 amps 2000 watts<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For this, power-e-bike has added a small logo on the electric pack you will choose:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17854\" src=\"https:\/\/www.power-e-bike.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/upto_velo_electrique-2-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"75\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Reminder: it is the controller present in the pack that will determine the real power of your kit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>So, assuming you decide to be a big lazybones (-;, and you want to turn your bike into an electric bike able to leave behind the scooters of our dear button-pushing teenagers.<\/p>\n<p>You will surely choose the 35 A controller supplied in the electric bike accessory packs:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.power-e-bike.fr\/fr\/kit-de-conversion-velo-electrique\/kit-moteur-arriere-nine-continent-rh205c-type-s-sans-batterie.html#\/pack_accessoires_pour_moteur_velo_electrique-35tlcd\">35 TLCD<\/a> or (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.power-e-bike.fr\/fr\/kit-de-conversion-velo-electrique\/kit-moteur-arriere-nine-continent-rh205c-type-s-sans-batterie.html#\/pack_accessoires_pour_moteur_velo_electrique-35hlcd\">35 HLCD<\/a> if you would rather have a motorbike-style twist-grip throttle)<\/p>\n<p>With such power, this kit will therefore be able to provide you with an average power <strong>of about 8 cyclists!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>your electric bike kit will have a maximum power of:<\/h2>\n<h4>&#8211; 2000 Watts if fitted with a 60v nominal battery<\/h4>\n<h4>&#8211; 1650 Watts if fitted with a 48v nominal battery<\/h4>\n<h4>&#8211; 1200 Watts if fitted with a 36v nominal battery.<\/h4>\n<h5>And yes, it must be said that at power-e-bike, the same kit works with several batteries without any modification! Wonderful, isnu0027t it!<\/h5>\n<p>Assuming you still want an ultra-powerful electric bike, you will go for a 60 V nominal battery.<\/p>\n<p>And the simplest trick will be to choose a battery with a <strong>continuous discharge capacity<\/strong> <strong>at least equal to that of the controller<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p> &#8211; In this case, in our example, <strong>a 35 A one.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Continuous discharge capacity<\/strong>, for an electric bike battery??? What is it?<\/h4>\n<p>First of all, it will be its capacity to deliver constant energy throughout your ride, i.e. at least <strong>35 A (A = Amperes).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do not confuse it with <strong>the discharge current peak<\/strong>, which will not be constant (between 20 and 120 seconds depending on the manufacturers).<\/p>\n<p>So, to keep it simple, let us look together at examples of batteries found at random on the net:<\/p>\n<p>I have put comments directly on the images, it will be much simpler:<\/p>\n<h2>&#8211; example with a 60v 15Ah battery<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-17858 size-full\" title=\"The battery of your Power-e-bike electric bike kit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.power-e-bike.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/batterie-60v-15ah-1-2-2.jpg\" alt=\"batterie 60v 15ah\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2><strong>to <\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2> <\/h2>\n<h2> <\/h2>\n<h2> <\/h2>\n<h2><strong>avoid with the 35A controller, OK for the other accessory packs based on 17A or 22A controllers.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2> 60v 10Ah battery<\/h2>\n<h2 data-wp-editing=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-17861 size-full\" title=\"The battery of your Power-e-bike electric bike kit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.power-e-bike.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/60v-10ah.jpg\" alt=\"The battery of your Power-e-bike electric bike kit\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>This battery will be <strong>OK<\/strong> on the sole condition of taking the \u00ab\u00a0upgrade high Rate\u00a0\u00bb option, which will let the battery accept continuous discharges up to 50A.<\/h2>\n<p>on the other hand, note the range, which will be barely 20km.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2>60v 20AH battery<\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/fr.aliexpress.com\/popular\/battery-60v-20ah.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-17864\" title=\"The battery of your Power-e-bike electric bike kit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.power-e-bike.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/60v-20ah-2-2.jpg\" alt=\"The battery of your Power-e-bike electric bike kit\" width=\"750\" height=\"404\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h4>With those 40A of continuous discharge (in English Rated discharge current), this electric bike battery will suit our 35A controller very well and a fortiori all the others.<\/h4>\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is my small contribution to the blog, with this little article titled: The battery of your Power-e-bike electric bike kit for dummies. To start, I think that like me, you must have wondered at the time of your purchase at power e-bike:<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.power-e-bike.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.power-e-bike.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.power-e-bike.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.power-e-bike.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.power-e-bike.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.power-e-bike.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.power-e-bike.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.power-e-bike.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.power-e-bike.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}