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Old 11-24-12 | 02:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Kevin Harvey
Tesla is probably geared as geared hub motor & 1 gear ,but 100times bike range
Typical E-bike range, 20 miles? (Without pedalling.) Tesla range, 220 miles? Not quite 100 times the range ...

You could add a bunch more battery packs to the electric bike -- it would make it unwieldy to ride, but could get the range into the neighborhood of the Tesla. Not that anybody would want to ride it.

Consider that a E-bike carries something (a person) that weighs 3-5 times as much as the bike, but a Tesla weighs 10-30 times as much as what it carries. It's not really an apples to oranges comparison.

And "prehistoric" does have a well defined meaning. "The wheel" may very well be "prehistoric" -- but Tesla, not so much. At best, you could call E-bikes "old technology", though even that's a moving target as the technologies used vary wildly -- "E-bike" is a mighty wide brush.
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