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Sadly, the manufacturers (Bosch, mostly) managed to convince various governments that the proprietary batteries with DRM are there to prevent tampering and this
by glogla 5y ago
Sadly, the manufacturers (Bosch, mostly) managed to convince various governments that the proprietary batteries with DRM are there to prevent tampering and this safety. So I'm not sure if it's going away.
- FpUser 5y agoDepends what eBike you are buying. There are currently many with the batteries you could get from Amazon / Ali.
- mwattsun 5y agoYou're not joking. The third link on Google for "bosch battery drm" is Hacker News talking about this. I'm surprised I missed this. "These bikes are DRM'd to the hilt and any attempt at hacking them will cause the bike to brick itself which you can only reset at the dealership. You can do that three times and then it's permanent." user jacquesm 71 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29201673 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29201673
- throw64748 5y agoI mean Bosch left the battery business years ago. What the manufacturers care about is to limit risk under the constraint of government regulations. That said the E-Bike business is too small to come up with a bold move there but in electric driving there seems a lot of experimentation going.