When Rivian-spinoff Also announced its first electric bike recently, I was stoked – a Rivian in bike form? Yes please! – but also had some doubts. The design was, shall we say, polarizing, and the whole thing was powered by software, which raises the specter of outages, glitches, and other assorted crashes. I could already hear the grumbling from purists: bikes are supposed to be simple, and this was anything but.
A quick glance at the spec sheet confirmed my fears: zonal architecture; series hybrid powertrain; pedal-by-wire; custom vehicle software; BLE anti-theft. These are not the type of specs you typically see in any bike, let alone a …
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