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As someone who picked up an eFat last summer, I really regret not going for moped or shelling out for eMoto like surron.
The main thing that bother me is that I thought bicycle parts would be largely commodified and interchangeable, but what I've met instead was a lot of gatekeeping and ridiculously overpriced parts. For example, rear suspension is still somehow a luxury on bicycles while being an essential piece on pretty much every motor vehicle and even modern electric scooters and EUC's out there.
Another is that all that extra weight makes it a terrible as a bicycle, to the point I don't really want to pedal like ever.
This combined makes the pro of being able to ride the sidewalks pointless - I'd be much better off driving the road.
But then, from a motorcycle perspective, I got a fraction of range and speed for the same price, for the pro of being able to store it in my apartment... But I kind of have to, because unlike motorcycle, there's no alarm, no ignition key, zero security features, and the battery dies in the cold so I can't even keep it in my garage.
There is another pro that I don't need a driving license... well, technically I do because the power rating falls into moped range, but nobody ever checks that, so people commonly get away with 5kV+ eMoto's and supercharged mopeds just as well.