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by vel0city 1611 days ago
You're never going to guarantee some kind of range on an e-bike. What's the temperature of the battery? Is it mostly uphill or down hill? How much are you going to brake?

And advertising laptop battery life based on the CPU getting pegged to 100% gives meaningless information as its rare for people to actually have their device running at 100% load anyways.

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> You're never going to guarantee some kind of range on an e-bike. What's the temperature of the battery? Is it mostly uphill or down hill? How much are you going to brake?

Yeah but testing the e-bike on a track and telling the public it has 30 miles of range based on that is disingenuous.

Instead, go to a city with an average amount of hills, stop lights, and cold weather and give in a go, and tell that number to the public. If it beats that, in their actual city they'll only be pleasantly surprised. Right now you strand a shitton of people because they think they have 30 miles.