Re:Decade of the Battery
by beAbU on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @06:29AM
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Let me tell you, since I have only access to an analogue bike, and no car at all, an e-bike is looking more and more like a it'll be life changing for me. We have some rental e-bikes in my town that I've used from time to time, but I don't like them as the designated parking spots is not ideal for my use case.
Access to an ebike will probably result in me taking significantly more trips with it, where I would otherwise have opted to either rent a car for an hour, or just not make the trip.
I don't have hard evidence to back up the claim, but I'm certain that an e-bike will rack up more than enough km's in a time period that the overall volume of ebike-exercise outweighs analogue-bike exercise, even if you subtract the "lost" exercise due to the e-bike assistance.
The amount of emotional and confidence boost you get from 250W of electricity honestly cannot be measured.
Access to an ebike will probably result in me taking significantly more trips with it, where I would otherwise have opted to either rent a car for an hour, or just not make the trip.
I don't have hard evidence to back up the claim, but I'm certain that an e-bike will rack up more than enough km's in a time period that the overall volume of ebike-exercise outweighs analogue-bike exercise, even if you subtract the "lost" exercise due to the e-bike assistance.
The amount of emotional and confidence boost you get from 250W of electricity honestly cannot be measured.