Love this website, the layout is great and the explanations are simple and straight-forward.

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    11 months ago

    (do hybrid ebikes exist?)

    When you ride an E-Bike you can always set the support to 0% and pedal yourself. Or I don’t get the question.

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      11 months ago

      I mean pedaling would recharge the battery. So you could go for a longer ride (say cross country) and alternate between charging and depleting the battery, just like in a hybrid car.

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          11 months ago

          Ebikes are great for climbing, and I’d be willing to recharge a bit on the flats or downhill if it was reasonably productive. I just don’t know how productive they could be.

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      11 months ago

      Not sure if any exist. Recharging by pedal would require adding resistance to the pedaling. The added resistance is fine in a car because they’re so heavy and fast that it’s barely noticeable downhill. But it’d be very noticeable to someone on a bike.