Why are there so many ranges as in distance listed for different bike manufacturers?
Ans. The question is most easily addressed if you separate the range available to travel into two parts. The first would be answered as the range the bike is capable of traveling when motoring on battery/motor power alone unassisted by human effort. This distance is relatively a fixed distance and thus a measure of the capacity of the battery factored by the efficiency of the bike. The second range would be described as human effort assisted by the motor/battery combination delivering a greater distance and of course that distance increases as the human effort increases. Note. Many bikes are rated at 10 AH (which means amp hours) this is a measure of the electrical capacity to deliver electrons therefore energy..
