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You didn't read the article, the title is just sensationalist that is completely wrong. Nothing you reacted to is actually real. All that the chinese ebike com
by kats 3y ago
You didn't read the article, the title is just sensationalist that is completely wrong. Nothing you reacted to is actually real.
All that the chinese ebike companies said is that users shouldn't try to repair a bad battery. The article says every other bike repair they are fine with.
- olyjohn 3y agoThat's because the battery is the most expensive part of the e-bike. All the rest of the hardware is cheap, and they don't care. They want you to have to buy their new batteries when the original ones shit out, or buy a whole new bike and restrict your ability to replace it yourself. They're treating the batteries as consumable, just throw them away and buy new ones. They know they're not going to make money on the other parts.
- Turskarama 3y agoWell that, but also if you don't know what you're doing with a battery you can easily start a fire. An e-bike battery fire is easily big enough to burn your house down, in fact it would be hard to stop it.
- eliaspro 3y agoExactly this. I've been repairing my own bikes for as long as I can think, but I wouldn't touch a bike's battery with an (insulated) 3m pole.
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- fxtentacle 3y ago"The bill was ultimately amended to remove e-bikes from the list of right-to-repair products" says the article. So they are excluding ALL repairs, not just battery repairs.