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Written from our own data. If a piece doesn't rest on something in the spec database, the price history or the owner reports, we don't publish it — anyone can generate the other kind.

• Every e-bike claims a range. Here's how much battery they're assuming per mile.
  2026-09-02 · EbikeMetrics model database, 113 models across 7 brands, scraped 2026-08-13/14 and re-verified 2026-09-01. 86 models have a battery capacity and a range claim that both survived variant-attribution and plausibility checks and carry no outstanding data doubt; those 86 are the analysis. 26 of the 86 have a capacity computed from the manufacturer's published volts x amp-hours rather than a published watt-hour figure, and the piece separates them. 7 of the 86 are models the manufacturer has since discontinued; they are kept in, and the methodology says so.
  We divided battery capacity by claimed maximum range for 86 e-bikes. The median assumes 11.2 watt-hours per claimed mile — and the spread, 6.2 to 18.0, tells you which range claims lean hardest on ideal conditions.
• We checked what 112 e-bikes say about battery safety certification. A quarter of them name no standard at all.
  2026-08-27 · EbikeMetrics model database, 112 of 113 models across 7 brands, product pages read 2026-08-17 to 2026-09-01, certification re-derived 2026-09-01 and the denominator corrected 2026-09-04. 112 models' pages were checked for UL 2271 (battery pack) and UL 2849 (electrical system) by name; pages naming neither were then re-read to classify what they say instead. The 113th, the discontinued Ride1Up LMT'D, is excluded and named in the piece: we have never read a page that is genuinely its own, and counting our missing evidence as the manufacturer's silence is the exact error this article is about.
  We read the product page of 112 of the 113 e-bikes in our database and recorded which UL safety standards each manufacturer names. 30 name neither — and that means three different things.