Originally Posted by
PatrickGSR94
Do any of these e-bikes have any sort of regeneration circuitry, whereby your time spend pedaling also helps recharge the batteries? Or is pedal power just not enough to make a significant recharge? Or would that add too much pedal effort where otherwise the effort would be acceptable at a given speed, gear, and grade change (i.e. make it feel like you're pedaling uphill when you're on flat or even downhill grade)?
BionX manufactures direct drive ebike kits that feature regenerative charging (via a magnet sensor mounted on the rear brake lever or engaged directly through the console).
Over a two year period I rode a BionX equipped bike and another with a similar system from eZee (that freewheels and thus cannot perform regenerative charging). I found that at the end of the week the BionX battery often required less charger time than the eZee.