Stolen electric bikes built around Bosch motors will be harder to sell, service, and ride at the end of January. That’s when Bosch is rolling a new digital theft feature that lets owners mark the bike as stolen in the Bosch Flow app – no subscription required. Bosch rolled out a similar feature for expensive Bosch batteries last year, but it stupidly required a subscription to Flow Plus.
“If an e-bike or a battery is marked as stolen, it can be identified as such throughout the entire digital ecosystem of Bosch eBike Systems,” says the company in a press release. “This makes reselling the e-bike difficult and increases the chances of the o …
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Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/tech/856120/this-free-feature-helps-make-stolen-bosch-e-bikes-unsellable
Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/tech/856120/this-free-feature-helps-make-stolen-bosch-e-bikes-unsellable
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