Article Range Check - How far can you go?

[Mike Smith]

Nice ride there Ian

 

[Beanieuk]

Really interesting the Blevo app, great information available and seems to help getting a better autonomy management.
What smartphone mount do you use?

Samsung S7 but just run it in my pocket ?

 

[Tori]

I love the BLEvo app. My most recent ride, I did about 60km with about 30% battery left, and I think close to 1000m climbing.

I did a short video review on that same ride, and now I have my heart rate monitor I will be testing that feature of the application also.

Happy trails ??

 

[Taffyteg]

Hi all, did a long ride today mainly with the bike in ECO and only putting it into trail to help a friend get up a couple of hills - another good feature of a ebike ?
I used just under 30% battery in 34.4miles with 1550ft elevation. I am now wondering can you get 100miles range ?
The ride was about 90% off-road with ECO set to 5% and trail set to 50%.

 

[Doomanic]

That's ridiculous! We did 17 miles today, 2100ft elevation and used 60-70%!!! We were pushing on though.

 

[Shane’s1000rr]

Done Dalby today about 24 mile had 4 %battery left at the end mostly eco very small amount of trail not sure if am happy with that think I’ve got settings wrong somehow was a good bit of climbing involved

 

[Finch9981]

Done Dalby today about 24 mile had 4 %battery left at the end mostly eco very small amount of trail not sure if am happy with that think I’ve got settings wrong somehow was a good bit of climbing involved

that sounds quite low tbh for eco. is your battery health ok?

 

[Taffyteg]

That's ridiculous! We did 17 miles today, 2100ft elevation and used 60-70%!!! We were pushing on though.

I presume you had more assist than I did. It just goes to show if you lower the amount of assist to the bare minimum, you can potentially get large amounts of range.

 

[Taffyteg]

that sounds quite low tbh for eco. is your battery health ok?

Check how much assist you have on ECO. Looks as though you are running >30%.

 

[Shane’s1000rr]

that sounds quite low tbh for eco. is your battery health ok?

Was at 98%percent when I set off

 

[Shane’s1000rr]

Check how much assist you have on ECO. Looks as though you are running >30%.

Will check pretty sure I was on 20 % though ??

 

[npatrix]

60Km, 607m elev. gain, 9% battery left... I think I might do 70Km as max with current settings
most time on ECO (25%/30%), some time on trail(50%/60%) and a few minutes in Turbo 90%/100%.

I think if I reduce the Eco from 25% to 15% probably can get a bigger range... need to understand better how peak tune adjustment works, both in effect on the ride and on energy consumption.

 

[outerlimits]

30 30 eco 60 60 trail, 100 100 turbo.
15% left after 63km.
Eco on the flat paved commute to the trail for 10km total.
53km of trails in trail
Mode, with about 10% of that using turbo.
118kg rider

 

[Dax]

14 miles, 3000ft, 20% battery left. Mostly trail but lots of turbo, on a kenevo. Day before I did 14 miles and 2600ft, all in turbo, 40% left. Terrain and riding style has a big impact on battery life, the 2600ft day was mostly fire road climb at the pace the bike wanted to travel at, the 3000ft day was racing mates up steep singletrack

Edit: this was at the default power settings of 20/50/100%

 

[npatrix]

30 30 eco 60 60 trail, 100 100 turbo.
15% left after 63km.
Eco on the flat paved commute to the trail for 10km total.
53km of trails in trail
Mode, with about 10% of that using turbo.
118kg rider

This is slight better than mine... I weight 97Kg, and I have a more conservative setting...the terrain and climbing height might have been the difference

 

[dwr budr]

Done Dalby today about 24 to need a spare mile had 4 %battery left at the end mostly eco very small amount of trail not sure if am happy with that think I’ve got settings wrong somehow was a good bit of climbing involved

4% is that all ? crikey i’m going to need a spare battery to get round there then !

 

[dfkenevo]

Hi. I just got home after what I would consider a decent ride with y Kenevo around Lake Tahoe area where I leave.
I wanted to share the info even though everybody else Is going to get different results, you know what I mean, rider’s weight, bike/battery settings, too many things go into play. My friend with a Levo ran out of battery at 30 miles, still made it back to his car. To get back home I had an extra 5 Miles with 15% battery left.

Rider’s weight 140lb/65k
Eco at 20% which today I rode all the time, I didn’t use trail or Turbo
Trail:40%, Pefect % for me for steep and technical sections
Turbo:90% I barely use it unless extremely short steep hill
Ride distance: 35 Miles/56Km
Time: 4h 30’
Elevation gain: 6,350ft/1.935m
Highest point: 9,100ft/2.700 m
Battery left: 5%
It was a close one but I made it home! I have to confess that now I’m not fresh as a ? Tomorrow going for another kind of big one.

 

[Cyclejunkie]

Great info.....love the stats ???

 

[Dax]

Today was the first time I fully flattened the battery on my kenevo, managed 17 miles and 3500ft, on 100% turbo for all the climbs and 15% eco for all the descents. Ran out of power on the fire road to the car

 

[Rick]

Turbo Levo 460 battery - Holland, so no hills - 100kg rider - 3 bars in the rubber - ECO set to 30% assist = 72 Km.
AVG Speed 25KMH - last 10 kliks without battery assist we did 82 total.

 

[Cyclejunkie]

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Eco 15%
Sport 55%
Turbo 100%
Home with 30% battery left

 

[James_MTB]

Today was the first time I fully flattened the battery on my kenevo, managed 17 miles and 3500ft, on 100% turbo for all the climbs and 15% eco for all the descents. Ran out of power on the fire road to the car

3500ft of climbing is v good; out of interest how much do you weigh? Also, were the trails dry?

 

[Dax]

Trails were damp, I weigh somewhere around 75kg with gear. I could get much more out of it if I was riding in trail, but I was short of time and feeling lazy

 

[idahoskiguy]

Today was the first time I fully flattened the battery on my kenevo, managed 17 miles and 3500ft, on 100% turbo for all the climbs and 15% eco for all the descents. Ran out of power on the fire road to the car

Sounds like a great ride!
Climbing in Turbo really uses a lot of battery, very similar to what I have discovered. Climbing and rider weight are the two biggest factors in determining range.

 

[Cyclejunkie]

Surely fitness comes into it more than anything.......in my opinion....just saying

 

[Dax]

Surely fitness comes into it more than anything.......in my opinion....just saying

Fitness is definitely a factor, but there is a massive difference in letting 100% power take me up the hill at 15mph and using 60% power to help me go up the hill at 10-15mph. Just saying.

 

[idahoskiguy]

Totally agree that fitness is a HUGE contribution to range extension. The beauty of the emtb is you can train and improve your fitness without killing yourself on the uphills like on a regular mtn bike. Finding that the more I ride the fitter I become and the bigger the range is because of using less assistance.

 

[James_MTB]

Surely fitness comes into it more than anything.......in my opinion....just saying

Rider weight has a massive impact as well

 

[Cyclejunkie]

Totally agree that fitness is a HUGE contribution to range extension. The beauty of the emtb is you can train and improve your fitness without killing yourself on the uphills like on a regular mtn bike. Finding that the more I ride the fitter I become and the bigger the range is because of using less assistance.

Totally agree dude

 

[MarkH]

Best I've gotten is 32 miles with over 3000ft of climbing. Half in eco mode (25%) on dead flat canal path and the rest over Saddleworth Moor in trail mode (50%).