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How hilly and stop start is his commute? In my limited experience of e-bikes, they're great for getting you up to speed and great at maintaining speed uphill. The downside is that if you have a legal one, they're limited to 25kph and they're a fucker to get going any faster than that under your own steam. If his commute is up and down hills and/or stopping and starting every 30 seconds an e-bike would probably be quicker. If it's flat and mostly traffic light free, he might find his average speed is slower than on a standard bike.
It'd be less effort though!
ltc
Got a mate keen to find an alternative to driving from Worcester to W.Brom - 14m or so he reckons. And back. He's pretty fit (casually ran a half marathon cos his garmin told him to - sort of fit) but wondering about an e-bike - to take the edge off time and effort wise . Anyone got any wisdom re. speed / time / effort on a commute like that ? worth dropping 3k on an ehybrid ?