• 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
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    1 year ago

    Electricity to power an ebike is pennies

    This isn’t even an exaggeration imo - I loaned an ebike for a month and didn’t notice any change in my electric bill at all, despite racking up around 100mi on it

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Well, here’s some math on that. The battery pack I have in my kit-built electric bicycle has roughly 624 watt-hours in it, and being generous/lazy and not accounting for conversion and charging losses, thus costs about $0.049 to charge from zero to full (which I never do since I don’t run it flat) at my current grid rate of $0.0789/kWh. That is, 4.9 cents. Slightly less than a nickel.

      It’ll propel my ass (along with the rest of me, usually) about 18 miles without pedaling, albeit not any faster than about 25 MPH.

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      1 year ago

      Even owning two electric cars, I’ve only seen my electric bill increase by about 30%. I live in the United States FYI.

      My e-bike battery is about 1-2% of the capacity of my car’s battery.

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      1 year ago

      yep my 750w/h battery gives me up to 200km range (real world uses usually about 130km) and costs less than a dollar to charge from empty to full