{"id":342194,"date":"2025-12-23T23:36:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/weve-been-lied-to-electric-bike-motors-can-do-regen-at-least-with-this-genius-trick\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T23:36:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:36:27","slug":"weve-been-lied-to-electric-bike-motors-can-do-regen-at-least-with-this-genius-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/weve-been-lied-to-electric-bike-motors-can-do-regen-at-least-with-this-genius-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve been lied to \u2013 electric bike motors CAN do regen, at least with this genius trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/12\/weve-been-lied-to-electric-bike-motors-can-do-regen-at-least-with-this-genius-trick.jpg\" \/>If you\u2019ve covered e-bikes as long as I have, you\u2019ll know two things about them: they\u2019re an awesome way to get around, and the basic technology behind an e-bike motor hasn\u2019t radically changed in a long, long time. However, based on the new e-bike motor design I just tested from a powertrain technology company called CHARGE, the e-bike world may be about to get turned on its head. These guys discovered that nearly any e-bike hub motor can perform regenerative braking, but everyone has just been building them wrong this whole time. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2025\/12\/23\/weve-been-lied-to-electric-bike-motors-can-do-regen-at-least-with-this-genius-trick\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/weve-been-lied-to-electric-bike-motors-can-do-regen-at-least-with-this-genius-trick\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":342195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}