Ride1Up Portola Full Range Test! Pedal Assist Only! 

You used 10.4Ah Portola battery. Also it’s interesting to know what is your height and what number you set on your saddle post extended? Since Portola display (vs. known M5 display, for example) doesn’t have an option to follow accurately with the battery discharge (it’s known that the most accurate follow up with battery discharge is following on the display in terms of voltage consumption) during riding vs. following with the provided 5 bars battery charge on KD21C display. It’s tricky for the rider to know exactly how much battery voltage % left. Also since it’s not advisable to deplete the battery to zero, is this a problem testing the Portola range? Even on PAS 3 (more comfortable torque for such a long range achieved of 47 mi (it’s much better range performance of Portola w/ the usually ignored 10.4Ah battery option). Remarkable given the range of the competitors in this price range of $1K and below. Bravo Portola, thank you for this video test that is very encouraging for owners like me who got 10.4Ah. Portola in this range test obviously outperformed most of the competition.

Would like to share my riding comparison between Velotric Fold 1 and one of its cheaper major competitors like Ride1Up Portola. Both ebikes I purchased very recently and pedal them about 80 mi each before providing w/ this info. Once I switched Velotric F1 to class 3 e-bike (allowing 28mph when pedal-assisting) most importantly than the max speed is actually how the torque power changed successfully for every PAS level. What happened is described very briefly - every one PAS level even otherwise the not noticeable PAS 1 or 2 increased its power when pedaling, and became so noticeable that I was able to pedal variety of terrains, including very short but steep uphills only using Velotric F1 PAS 1, incomparable advantage over Portola. Later even switched to Class 3 from Class 2 e-bike operation is forcing me going up steep hills especially to switch to PAS4 or 5 in order pedaling to get over the hill without much effort. The same observation is valid comparing Velotric F1 with other cheaper competitors like Aipas A2 and Lectruc XP 3.0 step-thru e-bikes. Being able to pedal practically everywhere without the need to switch to higher more-battery consuming PAS level or throttle - the outcome pedaling and saving more battery from discharge longer than Portola, Aipas A2 and Lectric XP step-thru.

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great video. do you find the handle bars to be a little short?

It seems to be all the rage in the comments, so I will do the same, what size is your 10.4AH battery? 80km is pretty impressive range. Looking forward to the throttle only test!

What size is your battery ?