How to Charge Your Electric Trike: Safely Charge Your Electric Tricycle at Home

How to charge your electric tricycle.

Hey everyone, I'm Dustin. I have nearly 20 years of experience in the bike and e-bike industry. Today, I'm going to show you how to charge your electric tricycle. All right, right here I've got the Relaxed body 750-watt rear mount motor e-trike. Love this e-trike, it's a recumbent style. Really powerful motor, and we've got a 15 amp-hour battery here. All right, so charging your electric trike, there are two different ways you can do it. One, you can leave the battery on, and you can take your charger, and all e-bikes or e-trikes will come with a charger, and you're going to have a port if you want to come over here. Now, the connection for your charger can look several different ways. It depends on what brand of charger and what brand of battery. Now you can see this is a three kind of three-prong attachment here, and you want to look at how that all lines up. Okay. And then from there, you're going to insert that. Now you can leave the battery off while you're charging, and it's as simple as taking your plug and plugging it into your normal. Household outlet, and from there, when it's charging, you should see this red.

Now, if you saw when I plugged it in, it went from no color to green to red, which indicates that the battery is not full, and it is currently charging. When this turns green, your battery is full and you can take it off the charger. Now there are other batteries that. Sometimes we'll have indicators also on the battery as to whether or not it's charged. You'll press a button, and it'll tell you this battery doesn't have that option. Now, the other option is you can take your battery out like so, and you can just do the same process. You can set it somewhere in a nice dry space and go ahead and plug it in. when you plug it in here. Now, the other thing I want to point out is that you want to ensure that you don't leave the charger on for longer than necessary. So if you can avoid letting it sit on the charger for hours on end, that's a good thing. So when it turns green, take it off the charger. Also, a lot of people like to leave the batteries in the garage so you don't bring them home. That's totally up to you.

I just recommend not leaving it in an extreme temperature area, so either extreme cold or extreme heat. You just wanna make sure that you keep it in a nice, safe, temperature-controlled area. Now, in addition to that, there are also fireproof bags that exist that you can charge your battery in if you'd like to do that. That's a good, safe way. Put the battery in there, you can get those on Amazon. You can charge it in there. So if a worst-case scenario is contained in the fireproof bag, that's another option as well. Now, the other thing about charging your batteries, you don't ever want to let it go to zero. Lithium-ion batteries, if you let them drain down, there's sometimes don't come back to life at all. So if you get down to one bar, even two bars, go ahead and charge it up to get it back to full battery. That will keep the battery alive and flowing well. The other thing is, don't let the battery sit for an extended period without being charged. So if you don't use your e-bike for a month, go ahead and throw it on the charger just to keep the battery fresh and alive.

That's a really good idea. Because again, if you let it sit for an extended period, three, four, five, six months, a year, it honestly may die and not come back. So keep it on the charger. That's something we do here. If our e-bikes sit in the warehouse for an extended period, we will go ahead and charge the batteries just to ensure that they stay healthy. So from there, when your battery is all done, you would just take it off the charger. I would go ahead and unplug the charger as well when you're done. No reason to leave that plugged in. And then you'll go ahead and turn this to unlock. Set your battery like so. And you're all set to get out and ride again. Now again, different batteries, different shapes, but everything's gonna work the same in principle. In some of the batteries where the battery is contained in the frame, you may not be able to remove the battery. Some out there exist.

Some may be in the frame that is a little more challenging to remove than others, if they can be removed. But again, now one thing I'll touch on as well is that there are different amps of chargers. So most of our amps are two-amp chargers. There are also three-amp chargers, which charge quicker than a two-amp charger. There are even bigger amp chargers, but don't go out and buy your charger, like a fast charger, because if the battery is not suited for fast charging or a bigger amp charger, you will blow up the battery. Maybe not in the sense of it blowing up, but you will break it, burn it out, and it will no longer work. So, if you want to get a faster charger or a bigger amp charger, talk to the manufacturer first and ensure that the battery is capable of receiving a higher amp power from the charger. That's important. So, you can expect, you know, from an empty, it's going to take about six to eight hours to charge with a three-amp charger might be about four to six hours. But again, it also depends on the size of the battery. A larger battery is going to take longer to charge than a smaller battery. All right, I hope that helps with understanding how to charge your electric trike.

If you have any other questions at all, please reach out to us at theteam@sixthreezero.com, or call us at 310-982-2877. Also, we offer a 30-day test ride on your e-trike policy. If you don't love it in the first 30 days, send it back. No questions asked, no money out of your pocket. Also, we're going to warranty everything for one year. If anything goes wrong in the first year, we'll take care of its parts and labor. And come out for a test ride. We're here in San Clemente, California. Come out and test-ride any of our e-trikes before you purchase to ensure you're making the right choice. Then, when you have yours, post in the group and make friends. Join our community. We have a Facebook group called Sixthreezero Pedalers. There are thousands of members in the group. Join that. After you test ride, also talk to existing riders to ensure you're making the right choice. Then, when you have yours, post in a group and make friends. Finally, download the app to track your rides and compete on the leaderboard. So thanks for sticking around, and don't forget, it's your journey, your experience. Enjoy the ride!