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Got me a Vala GX a month ago and I love the bike. I come from a Orbea Rise with shimano engine so I dont know what to expect from the range of the bike. Today I drove 45 km with 577 meter of elevation according to the flow app. My average watt input was 141w. Battery consumption was 55% in emtb mode with maksimum of 85nm and 600w. My weight is around 77 kg geared up. I must say I find the battery consumption a little high compared to my old Orbea Rise. What do you think about the range?
Is there a way to see battery consumption for each ride in the flow app? I cant find it
 
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That consumption sounds reasonable to me. Which variant Rise (battery size + motor power) are you comparing it to?
 
Then use a lower modes if you want more range and less power usage.

There is no free lunch with e-bike. Its either more motor/battery or more legs and lungs.

I have my blue mode set as tour + 7
At 70nm. That gets more range than 85nm emtb. But less speed more legs/lungs.
 
I am aware of I can adjust the power etc. My hope was to make a comparison with other Vala users to see if my battery maybe is faulty. Since we don't have many SC vala users in my country
 
Cayuse said:
I am aware of I can adjust the power etc. My hope was to make a comparison with other Vala users to see if my battery maybe is faulty. Since we don't have many SC vala users in my country
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The brand of bike is irrelevant. Its the motor battery combo is what you need to compare and that's a Bosch either or gen 5.
Your range is representative of my bosch gen 5 with 600wh emtb 85nm mode. I'm doing more elevation and less distance. That makes sense, you trade elevation for distance and vise versa. Most of the below rides are a combo of emtb 85nm and tour+ set at 70nm.

I'm on Crestline S180. 180mm travel. 80kg with kit on.

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The below one i had 1 x 300mtr vert uplift on the shuttle so this is around 1236mtr vert climbing
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Below is with the 400wh
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Cayuse said:
Got me a Vala GX a month ago and I love the bike. I come from a Orbea Rise with shimano engine so I dont know what to expect from the range of the bike. Today I drove 45 km with 577 meter of elevation according to the flow app. My average watt input was 141w. Battery consumption was 55% in emtb mode with maksimum of 85nm and 600w. My weight is around 77 kg geared up. I must say I find the battery consumption a little high compared to my old Orbea Rise. What do you think about the range?
Is there a way to see battery consumption for each ride in the flow app? I cant find it
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Not sure, but my wife, who has THREE eBikes is disappointed with the range, especially after the last "update".
 
Cactus Jack Slade said:
Not sure, but my wife, who has THREE eBikes is disappointed with the range, especially after the last "update".
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There's no change in range after thr latest update unless you wound up the setting to 100nm... in which case yes there is a decrease in range because ya using more power. ....

There's no free lunch. Its use more or less legs/lungs or more/less battery/motor.
 
I comfortably get more range on my Vala than I did on my 630Wh EP8 bike. The new update is a positive for range management if properly used. Set one of your modes to match the Rise in terms of support factor and max torque / power, and see what happens. If it’s still deficient you might actually have a problem worth engaging your bike shop on.
 
Plummet said:
There's no change in range after thr latest update unless you wound up the setting to 100nm... in which case yes there is a decrease in range because ya using more power. ....

There's no free lunch. Its use more or less legs/lungs or more/less battery/motor.
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Well, she is not using the higher power, she actually thinks it is lower power after the update... I'm going to have her keep better records to compare so I can see if this is actually something she is seeing, or is just mistaken?!
 
Thanks for all your input. It seems like my battery is ok but I did hope for more rider data so I could have made a apple to apple comparison 😊
 
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