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Nice article. What it lacks for me is to expand the viewpoint to "what is sustainable in the long run?". So instead of comparing the newest systems and going 'oh this has even fancier performance by a few percent" check out what battery resupply looks like for bikes that are five years old. All of these drives come with their own battery packs, which ones use open standards that allow for aftermarket supply, which suppliers keep replacements available...
In the long run this is what defines a good purchase for me more than the performance difference between a Bosch CX and the dji drive
Are there any established open standards for ebike batteries? I always assumed pretty much everything in commercial bikes was proprietary and once the maker stops providing them your only remaining option would be to have the battery rebuilt once it's toast.
If there are quality repair focused companies out there, I'd like my next e-bike to be from them for sure.
Seems Yamaha have a semi open standard, with some of the companies that integrate their tech building their own batteries.
I ride a seven year old Bosch CX, the internet says that any battery that fits the mount works, the supplier says it needs to have the same ID or it won't.
There was an article around a few months back about a startup that builds replacement focused bike batteries. Part of the article was how much of a pain it was to reverse engineer the Bosch battery communication but they claimed they did it and that other brands were far easier. Couldn't find it anymore unfortunately.
https://infinite-battery.com/
Nice, that's the one. Anyone got experience with it?