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Don't know about planned obsolence (isn't that illegal by now?) but what my limited understanding tells me is that there are a lot of factors that make an Ebike quite unserviceable compared to a normal bike.
For example I doubt that you will be able to get spares for your Bosch motor in ten years for example.
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This was something I was thinking about recently with the explosion in e-bike and e-scooters. While I'm generally for the idea of less cars on the road, do these electric vehicles have planned obsolescence built into them like a smartphone would? Anything new and trending in technology tends not to have a long shelf life, it's not profitable.