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Originally Posted by freebeard
The Leaf shows why Aptera and Arcimoto have a shot -- one quarter the power requirement.
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I don't believe it, sounds fanciful.
From what I can find electric motor cycles don't even use 1/4 the power of a leaf.
Everything I can find says ebikes use around 1/2 to absolute best case scenario about 1/3 the power to go the same distance.
And that's my leaf, highway driven, pulls a trailer, usually has the back seat full of tools.
Some one who uses a leaf like it was intended, say Neal, gets between 5 and 6 miles per kwh. I get 4 to 4.5 miles per kwh in the summer and I still get better than epa rated mileage. The epa is clearly stupid if they they think the average leaf is going to get 3.3 miles per kwh, I average about 3.8 to 4 miles per kwh and I use the leaf like a pickup. Furthermore the epa is stupid because they think the leaf is going to get 3.3 miles per kwh but can go 99 miles on a charge, yeah that don't add up.