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by bobthebuilders 1594 days ago
How can the bike not have a motor? Or like no motor in the engine sense.
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Just like electric cars don’t have a motor, another word for motor is transmission in the common parlance.
Electric cars do have motor; "motor" is literally "engine", the thing that converts energy to motion.

If your parlance uses it for the transmission, your parlance is wrong. It is like calling square a circle.