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what's up guys is Antwon good with cnet.com and today we're taking a look at an electric bicycle this is the A to B Alva plus and it is a dual mode electric assist electrically motivated bicycle now what are we talking about here there are two different kinds of electric bike they're just electric bikes that have a throttle control where you twist the throttle and it takes off kind of like an electric scooter this does that but it also has an electric assist mode so when you turn the cranks with your feet it'll actually kick in a little bit of electric system to help you go just a little bit faster it makes you feel a little bit stronger than you really are and helps you to get around using your own energy getting a little bit of fitness but without getting to work when you're sweating so what we're working with here is a 500 watt electric hub motor on the rear axle that's going to be providing the motivation when you're under pure electric power are also helping you along when you're pedaling you've also got a seven speed Shimano derailleur back here with seven forward gears dual control with a little twist gear shifter now the power that's going to be supplied to that electric motor is going to come from this big old box right here this is your thirteen point two amp hour electric battery and that's going to basically be where your juice is charged and you're gonna plug this up every night it's gonna take about three to four hours to charge and that's gonna get you about forty miles of range as it is equipped this is a hefty bike with a lot of the weight centered over the rear end there website states that the elavil plus is a sixty six pound battery I waited on my bathroom scale it's about 72 according to that but maybe they're not the most accurate we've also got integrated bike lights on the front and on the rear that are gonna automatically come on when you turn the bike on and get ready to go so you don't have to worry about when you're driving at night and the battery also makes a really nice parcel shelf on the back so if you want to hang your laptop bag off of that or strap your groceries to it's a good place to put it keep it off of your back it actually comes with this neat little NFC tag that goes on your keychain and when you want to turn it on you just tap the trip computer right here and the whole thing kind of fires up and calibrates itself when you do that those lights that I told you are gonna come on and then you'll be able to take advantage of the electric assist or the electric drive and when you lock your bike up you can also lock the battery on to the back with an included key so that nobody grabs it and runs off with it now the Alva plus is going to roll on 24-inch wheels it's a little bit smaller than your standard road bike but that's going to give you a little bit of maneuverability and it's also got these really big meaty like 2.3 5 inch wide tires that's gonna give you a lot of traction and it's going to allow you to roll really smoothly over cracked-up sidewalks or sewer grates or anything like that without worrying about your tire getting stuck and if you need to go off-road every now and then they've got you covered now once you get going you're gonna need to bring it to a stop and the elbow Plus is equipped with hydraulic disc brakes on the front and on the rear and top speed on this thing is gonna be stated about 24 miles per hour that's the legal limit of what an electric bike can do now if you've got really strong legs you can keep on pedaling past that and push past that electronic speed limiter but HSB states that the actual top speed and the actual range of the Ovilus is gonna be very limited to what your personal weighted seaway let's go get more range if you weigh more than you'll probably get less okay so the A to B elbow Plus is a little heavy and I wouldn't want to carry it up a flight of stairs but if you're on the road and you're on top of it it's more than carrying its own weight and if you've got about a 20 or 10 mile commute you can get to work and back on this thing without breaking a sweat and without having to fit through traffic but how much is this gonna cost you now this elbow plus is gonna run you three thousand two hundred ninety nine dollars that's the MSRP and that's a lot of money that you could spend on a bicycle if you're a casual rider but if you're in a bike friendly City where you conceivably ride this thing to work everyday it'll definitely pay for itself in less than a couple of years but the thing that I like the most about the Apple Plus is that it's a flexible electric bike that lets you write it however you want to write it if you want a little bit of a sister a lot you can dial that in if you don't want anything at all you turn it off and if you're feeling lazy you can just turn the crank and let the bike do it for you I've been in chuan Goodwin and we've been taking a look at the A to B alpha plus