Depends on where you live. Significantly flat area? Totally unnecessary. We have some 21% grade hills, and when you are behind five cars at a red light, you can’t even push off to get started because it’s so steep when hauling groceries or kids.
The throttle is the only way you can get the first stroke in to engage the motor as you also use your legs. Ebikes/escooters make up a huge portion of our micromobility culture.
It’s also part of the reason why bike culture never really took off here until electric bikes/scooters/onewheels became affordable.
Depends on where you live. Significantly flat area? Totally unnecessary. We have some 21% grade hills, and when you are behind five cars at a red light, you can’t even push off to get started because it’s so steep when hauling groceries or kids.
The throttle is the only way you can get the first stroke in to engage the motor as you also use your legs. Ebikes/escooters make up a huge portion of our micromobility culture.
It’s also part of the reason why bike culture never really took off here until electric bikes/scooters/onewheels became affordable.
Thats only a minor engineering problem. Non cheap e bikes use torque sensors instead of rotation sensor to engage the motor.