How Powerful Should An Electric bike Be? The UK Is Asking

As electric drives sweep their way to dominance in the automotive world, there’s another transport sector in which their is also continuing apace. Electric-assisted bicycles preserve the feeling of riding a bike as you always have, along with an electric motor to effortlessly power the rider over hill and dale. European electric two-wheelers are limited to a legal top speed of about 15 miles per hour and a 250 watt motor, but in a post-Brexit dash for independence the British government are asking whether that power should be increased to 500 watts.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2024/03/06/how-powerful-should-an-electric-bike-be-the-uk-is-asking/