Comment by myself248
6 hours ago
The only feature I care about here, is that it charges over USB-C PD, which every ebike battery for the last 12 years could have done, and should have done, yet here we are.
Is it the very first? I have no idea. But it's the first that I've run across, and I'm ecstatic that it exists.
Proprietary power bricks for anything are stone-age and should be shunned by the market. Maybe the ebike market will start doing so.
I don’t think it would have been possible for the last 12 years. But should be possible now.
Only the 2021 spec for usb pd supports 36v (common bike battery voltage) and more than 100W delivery. My bosch ebike charges at 36v 4A.
I also think that a small usb c connector could easily break when used in an ebike. But this should not prevent standardizing a “bigger usb c” to be used in ebikes.