It's marginal gains all the way here but genuinely if you're an omnivore the E-Bike might work out more enviromentally conscious
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i'm genuinely blown away by how much range they can get with a small battery pack
you could strap a few spares onto the bike and fill your backpack up and go like 1000 miles. even easier if you stay on power assist level 1 or 2.
this must be some breakthrough level where the energy density of li-ion batteries being so much less then gasoline is canceled out by the human muscle power combined with how light a bike + motor is.
i mean no old school moped is going to take you 1000 miles with a gallon of gas in a backpack. or maybe? either way i would rather deal with a simple electric motor then an annoying 2 stroke
but yeah rented some with my partner in the spring and rode a rail trail and it was the most fun we've had in years. it's the closest to a powered exoskeleton i've ever experienced. a family member is about to get rid of their cargo e bike and i may be able to get it for free soon.
maybe not a moped but proper gas motorcycles can hit 70+mpg (city?), aero starts to matter at highway speeds, which is why electric touring motorcycles probably still don't exist.
is it just because ebikes generally are going 15-30 mph? because they seem really efficient even compared to motorcycles
it's weight at low speeds and then not having the high speeds' drag when you never go all that fast. people generally don't want the e-moto for a 100 mile trip because they're trying to do it in less than four hours and none of the constraints really work out for that.
as well as the low(er) speeds bicycles in general are just really good at weight vs. transportable weight. I mean you can fit like 5 people and luggage in a car, for example, say what, 800kg of load? Even if you do this in a like a Gen 1 Twingo, miserable as that might be, you'd be looking at about 1:1 car weight vs. transported weight.
a 30kg E-bike has little problem transporting a 100kg perso, so more like 3:1 on that front.
They do, but the range is still an issue
They claim this one goes up to 400 km on a charge.
https://shop.energicamotor.com/en/pages/energica-experia
huh 400km isn't too bad compared to a goldwing
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It'll take 4 hours at least to recharge. This is an exeptional range. Most of the electric tourers get up to 250.