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E-Bike Industry Blames Consumers For Fires In Effort To Undermine ‘Right To Repair’ Laws (www.techdirt.com)
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Countless companies and industries enjoy making up scary stories when it comes to justifying their opposition to making it easier to repair your own tech. Apple claims that empowering consumers and bolstering independent repair shops will turn states into “hacker meccas.” The car industry insists that making it easier and cheaper to repair modern cars will be a boon to sexual predators.

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[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, that makes it real easy! What do the conversion kits cost? Other than installing and fitting, did you have to do a lot of tinkering, or was it basically out the box to go (-battery)?

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In my case it was all plug and go, aside from fiddling around finding the best wire routing strategy.

The exact kit I got was this one, which appears discontinued but there are oodles just like it. It's around $250. The battery was this one, and again you can find tons that are identical and probably stamped out in the same factory. It was around $270.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Ooh, I found basically the same thing for like $180 on Ali! There are cheaper ones, but they look iffy. You can some real interesting kits for $300 lol.