I spent the weekend moving my old stuff to the wife's bike and installing the new e-bike kit direct drive hub. A few notes comparing the Amped geared kit to the E-bike kit.

-The Amped kit came with the freewheel already installed.
-The e-bike kit has the wires exiting opposite the freewheel, makes installing the freewheel easy, but means you have to install the torque arm on the same side as the derailer or take off the connectors to get the torque arm over the wires.
-The e-bike kit is quieter (nice) but larger (not as stealthy).
-Nice torque on both, more acceleration on the e-bike kit.
-Almost identical ah consumption, 0.47ah per mile.
-The e-bike kit comes with a pack of tywraps.
-The amped kit has cruise control, for some reason I was expecting it on the e-bike kit but if it does have cruise, I can't get it to work.
-The amped brake handles are longer (same brand as e-bike kit), the e-bike kits look like they would be more at home on a mountain bike.
-The e-bike kit throttle feels like better quality and doesn't have the LED's indicating power on.

The amped kit gave me top speed of around 20-21mph, the e-bike around 22-23, both at 36v.
I was surprised at the torque of the e-bike hub. I was expecting less torque but higher speed. The low end is very powerful. Even from a stop on a hill, it just got up and went. I had hoped for a little more speed, but I'll get that when I go to 48v.

I don't know if any of this is affected by a brand new set of thundersky 20ah LiFePo4's, but it's the first trip with this set.

Both kits are nice and I would recommend either one.

The next step for me is adding the 4th battery pack to go to 48v. I need to figure out how I'm going to mount the pack to the side of the rack.