micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
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"Transportation using lightweight vehicles such as bicycles or scooters, especially electric ones that may be borrowed as part of a self-service rental program in which people rent vehicles for short-term use within a town or city.
micromobility is seen as a potential solution to moving people more efficiently around cities"
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IME, the difference between a bad headwind and a good tailwind can be like a factor of 3 in terms of battery consumption for a given route.
While that might be true for some very gnarly air speeds approaching 10-20 knots, riding out-and-back would tend to cancel out most -- but not all -- of the windage effects. And such winds would almost certainly be noticed as a caveat to the ride data.
Certainly, I wouldn't recommend drawing conclusions from a few or even a single data point. It's an ebike, so going for multiple rides shouldn't be laborious and in-fact should be quite fun.
I mostly just use my bike for commutes and charge in the middle. So, the one-way matters. But sometimes, I can drain like 80% of the battery going one-way and other times its like 20%. Of course this will depend on how much assist you use. With a good tailwind, I'm pedaling hard enough the assist might do very little outside of accelerating after stopping. With a bad headwind, the assist might be at/near 750W nearly constantly (and still sometimes dipping down below 20mph) and my contribution is pretty negligible. I do live in a relatively flat area nearish to the coast... so winds speeds might be a bit more variable here.