In EU, regulations made e-bikes completely undesirable to me:
- 250W
- and the top speed of 25 km/h with assistance
As I can easily achieve 25 km/h on average than I would just carry around all that heavy electronics.
In my utopian world, e-bikes would be on the roads, but in their own narrow lanes, cruising at 35-40 km/h. Cars would pass them with no danger, pedestrians would be happy. Everybody would be happy.
But... Bosch wrote the law.
e-bike I would like to have
http://www.greyp.com/
Rimac sure does make some beautiful machines. Shame about the draconian ebike laws in the EU, a buddy of mine went ahead and built a 1kw ebike anyways figuring the cops wouldn't notice or care. But they did, it was confiscated within the week. They are much more savvy about ebikes than they were a few years ago.