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micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

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Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles: Whatever floats your goat, this is all things micromobility!

"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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I want to get another battery for my ebike but everything I've seen online ships from China and I'm worried about getting scammed/wrong product.

The company I bought my bike from is in America and they won't ship batteries into Canada.

My battery is a silverfish style with a 4 pin connector port, a canon head charger port and it's dimensions are 390mm X 75mm X 110 mm.

It's 48v 15AH.

Any help would be appreciated.

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[โ€“] litchralee@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.