Ebike move from Japan

[Tan]

I am trying to bring my Panasonic ebike from Japan but so far have been told I can't send the battery. Has anyone found a way to successfully do this?
Otherwise, is there a battery I could buy in the UK which would work or any conversion method I could use? Does anyone have experience with this?
Thank you in advance

[maanderx]

Try this link for batteries.

[2_i]

I helped a friend with this type of issue. The bike was not common, and certainly not at the time. We took the battery out and opened it. It was composed of 26650 cells with tabs connected with wires. We took photos of the connections. We separated the cells with a soldering iron. We gave the cells to different team members traveling together and rebuilt the battery on the other end. I have no idea what the limit is on the transportation of individual cells by individual people, but the policies are much softer on this than on built batteries. It could be that just one person could carry all these cells as long as they were separated.

For a more standard bike, spending the money and getting a new battery at the other end may be simpler.

[Jdsk]

Welcome

What model is the bike, and do you have the part number for the battery?

Jonathan

[Brucey]

I am trying to bring my Panasonic ebike from Japan but so far have been told I can't send the battery. Has anyone found a way to successfully do this?

I wonder, is it possible to post the battery separately? Or to bring it, less the actual cells inside, which would have to be replaced?

[Keezx]

Shipping an empty plastic shell is most likely possible without problems, but filling it with new cells is certtainly not an easy job for random amateurs....

[NickJP]

The limit for batteries as cabin baggage is that they have to be <100Wh, but you can have up to 15 of them. I have friends with Bike Friday ebikes, and the batteries in those are modular and come apart into separate 98Wh modules, so although the total battery size on their bikes is 392Wh, they separate them into four modules and take them as cabin baggage. The batteries come from Grin Technologies in Canada: https://ebikes.ca/product-info/grin-pro ... eries.html.

For my wife's Trek ebike, which uses the Fazua system with removable 250Wh battery, for one trip we were considering purchasing a second battery at our destination and flying over with the bike sans battery, but in the end she purchased a Swytch kit with three of the 90Wh batteries, and I converted one of her other bikes with the kit and we took that instead, carrying the three batteries on with us. We had printed out the relevant IATA and Singapore Airlines regulations, to show to any overly officious baggage inspectors if needed, but in the event that wasn't needed.