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[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 minutes ago

Very fast charge rate that is missing from most "45 mile range ebikes" LFP could be lighter. Sodium advantage includes even more resistance to "spontaneous combustion" that may be less common than feared, but still.

Sodium ion becoming mainstream is the biggest read I get from this. It ensures humanity to have limitless battery supply.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

That's a moped, it doesn't have pedals

[–] [email protected] 1 points 27 minutes ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago) (1 children)

1000013077

Does this count as an e bike?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 minutes ago

Depends on local laws

It would not in Norway

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

That's more of an electric Vespa than an e-bike.

It is a beaut though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Including rider?? A twisted up rubber band could get a 70kg rider to 45 miles!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

It's the rated load as specified on the manufacturer's product page.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Definitely NOT an ebike, but still cool. Hopefully we will see this tech in actual bikes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I'll guess that the day you see a sudden price drop or clearance sale in a particular ebile brand or their batteries are when new models or batteries will be announced.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

e-bile. Did Twitter change names again?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I get the impression a lot of leftpondians use "bike" to mean MC, so to them saying "ebike" when they mean "electric motorcycle" is pretty natural.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Emoto or escooter are words too, and they would have been more accurate. This is not an ebike, there are no pedals and calling it one is just straight up incorrect.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

That's my opinion as well (I think of "ebike" as "EU-conformant pedelec"), but that opinion doesn't seem to be universal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

That is largely due to companies misusing the term because they want to hop on the ebike hype train but IMO, it does more harm to the micromobility industry than good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 39 minutes ago

Yes, I agree. It appears to have worked on the leftpondians though, and thus we get headlines like this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Can't use it if you're fat tho

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Or a man of average height.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Average weight of an Asian male is 60kg, so they’d be just fine on one of these bikes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

It isn't, even for china it is 69, add everything that people wear and take with them daily it will be over 75. source